Table 323.40.

Master's degrees conferred to males by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2014-15 and 2015-16

Field of study	2014-15										2015-16
	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/Pacific Islander			American Indian/ Alaska Native	Two or more races	Non- resi- dent alien	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/Pacific Islander			American Indian/ Alaska Native	Two or more races	Non- resi- dent alien
					Total	Asian	Pacific Islander								Total	Asian	Pacific Islander
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
All fields, total	306,615	168,151	26,295	21,384	19,577	18,939	638	1,223	5,438	64,547	320,444	166,102	27,029	22,701	20,068	19,460	608	1,230	6,125	77,189
Agriculture and natural resources	2,904	2,075	97	121	77	74	3	16	63	455	2,955	2,079	99	144	72	72	0	17	56	488
Architecture and related services	4,147	2,372	153	400	211	204	7	12	82	917	4,163	2,248	169	399	185	181	4	6	78	1,078
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	666	378	59	78	18	17	1	15	27	91	635	341	47	92	28	26	2	7	16	104
Biological and biomedical sciences	6,252	3,556	305	388	909	896	13	23	163	908	6,705	3,765	344	509	916	909	7	14	182	975
Business	98,593	55,571	9,877	6,968	7,571	7,323	248	371	1,726	16,509	99,491	54,663	10,111	7,391	7,565	7,320	245	378	1,842	17,541
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,816	1,635	249	234	80	73	7	10	60	548	2,862	1,634	337	222	81	73	8	8	69	511
Communications technologies	295	117	26	21	20	19	1	0	0	111	242	89	19	16	7	7	0	0	2	109
Computer and information sciences	21,893	6,058	1,340	811	1,604	1,576	28	44	260	11,776	27,787	6,077	1,383	851	1,945	1,918	27	41	300	17,190
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	33,963	24,216	3,695	3,127	1,089	993	96	202	580	1,054	33,802	23,867	3,586	3,339	1,050	973	77	208	702	1,050
Engineering	34,645	11,824	895	1,556	2,528	2,498	30	38	425	17,379	38,737	11,565	843	1,466	2,597	2,579	18	52	525	21,689
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	3,808	1,742	269	189	211	208	3	19	43	1,335	4,440	1,799	276	197	194	190	4	22	58	1,894
English language and literature/letters	3,052	2,405	128	235	69	66	3	16	89	110	2,883	2,198	136	257	67	66	1	19	97	109
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	429	268	70	28	24	24	0	1	4	34	461	273	81	41	15	14	1	2	10	39
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,241	681	32	177	38	38	0	4	33	276	1,173	631	24	152	34	32	2	3	31	298
Health professions and related programs	18,793	11,477	2,100	1,469	1,973	1,912	61	119	377	1,278	20,423	12,175	2,297	1,741	2,188	2,113	75	114	454	1,454
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	4,782	3,124	888	442	117	102	15	32	89	90	4,896	3,171	839	499	146	129	17	37	93	111
Legal professions and studies	3,688	1,023	198	179	100	96	4	26	30	2,132	3,817	1,031	195	185	115	110	5	19	31	2,241
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	999	697	104	80	23	22	1	5	24	66	1,012	698	95	94	13	11	2	11	33	68
Library science	1,025	797	42	103	38	37	1	4	20	21	907	725	32	66	34	32	2	1	29	20
Mathematics and statistics	4,508	1,796	133	200	312	309	3	4	64	1,999	4,920	1,768	123	195	326	322	4	5	70	2,433
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	44	35	4	3	0	0	0	0	0	2	116	77	18	4	5	5	0	0	2	10
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	3,147	1,914	275	275	171	161	10	15	65	432	3,223	1,910	289	246	173	164	9	9	67	529
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	4,338	3,070	555	252	105	98	7	23	114	219	4,721	3,298	606	327	92	87	5	22	108	268
Philosophy and religious studies	1,222	903	83	78	36	35	1	4	12	106	1,129	821	67	81	36	35	1	3	24	97
Physical sciences and science technologies	4,438	2,548	104	219	210	207	3	9	74	1,274	4,427	2,466	103	231	218	216	2	19	110	1,280
Precision production	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Psychology	5,538	3,712	583	605	256	245	11	28	127	227	5,571	3,615	660	623	238	223	15	42	168	225
Public administration and social services	11,181	6,277	1,742	1,291	491	463	28	75	269	1,036	11,181	6,115	1,851	1,382	458	422	36	57	301	1,017
Social sciences and history	10,318	6,258	573	745	408	394	14	35	237	2,062	9,990	5,872	540	805	392	384	8	35	236	2,110
Social sciences	8,258	4,569	506	603	371	360	11	23	195	1,991	8,088	4,337	469	648	362	358	4	27	194	2,051
History	2,060	1,689	67	142	37	34	3	12	42	71	1,902	1,535	71	157	30	26	4	8	42	59
Theology and religious vocations	9,441	6,396	1,143	482	517	494	23	27	136	740	9,367	6,190	1,241	486	511	494	17	42	161	736
Transportation and materials moving	803	552	69	51	27	26	1	9	43	52	725	498	51	38	31	30	1	5	32	70
Visual and performing arts	7,643	4,674	504	577	343	328	15	37	202	1,306	7,677	4,438	567	622	336	323	13	32	238	1,444
Other and not classified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians," which are listed separately.

NOTE: Data are for postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. Reported racial/ethnic distributions of students by level of degree, field of degree, and sex were used to estimate race/ethnicity for students whose race/ethnicity was not reported. To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): "Agriculture and natural resources" includes Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences and Natural resources and conservation; and "Business" includes Business, management, marketing, and related support services and Personal and culinary services. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2015 and Fall 2016, Completions component. (This table was prepared August 2017.)