Table 324.25.

Doctor's degrees conferred 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	178,548	108,914	13,272	11,263	19,186	18,872	314	884	3,670	21,359	177,867	107,108	13,365	11,766	19,580	19,251	329	808	3,780	21,460
Agriculture and natural resources	1,561	803	35	54	49	48	1	9	15	596	1,508	736	43	58	55	55	0	6	17	593
Architecture and related services	272	97	13	14	27	26	1	0	9	112	236	78	18	10	27	25	2	0	11	92
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	312	153	45	29	17	15	2	11	9	48	316	154	43	37	15	13	2	7	10	50
Biological and biomedical sciences	8,053	4,265	242	442	745	736	9	26	122	2,211	7,914	4,215	272	443	714	702	12	26	138	2,106
Business	3,116	1,444	616	142	228	224	4	19	27	640	3,323	1,533	671	160	220	209	11	14	50	675
Communication, journalism, and related programs	644	399	43	23	24	24	0	1	8	146	629	368	25	33	23	22	1	0	9	171
Communications technologies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2
Computer and information sciences	1,998	629	76	51	129	129	0	7	20	1,086	1,979	597	92	44	103	102	1	1	22	1,120
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	11,772	7,305	2,273	871	457	420	37	80	147	639	11,829	7,244	2,266	933	455	423	32	76	168	687
Engineering	10,239	3,224	177	303	713	712	1	14	92	5,716	10,209	3,156	207	294	707	704	3	11	120	5,714
Engineering technologies and engineering-related       fields1	123	48	8	6	6	6	0	0	2	53	133	59	5	6	6	6	0	0	2	55
English language and literature/letters	1,418	1,111	41	60	59	59	0	5	25	117	1,392	1,080	57	63	48	46	2	6	20	118
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	335	189	35	14	15	13	2	1	6	75	374	182	55	21	18	17	1	1	8	89
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,243	644	16	150	47	46	1	1	19	366	1,265	659	15	126	38	38	0	4	21	402
Health professions and related programs	71,004	46,243	4,373	3,951	12,341	12,183	158	275	1,439	2,382	73,682	47,252	4,714	4,224	13,069	12,915	154	269	1,793	2,361
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	193	126	28	11	3	3	0	1	3	21	205	123	38	15	2	2	0	0	2	25
Legal professions and studies	40,329	27,325	3,373	3,865	2,893	2,826	67	333	1,407	1,133	37,030	24,986	3,110	3,872	2,677	2,597	80	293	977	1,115
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and       humanities	96	63	9	8	6	6	0	0	2	8	105	79	3	7	4	4	0	0	3	9
Library science	44	30	4	0	3	3	0	0	0	7	54	30	3	1	5	5	0	0	2	13
Mathematics and statistics	1,801	740	22	38	90	88	2	1	8	902	1,850	722	39	63	110	110	0	4	39	873
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	840	459	96	39	39	38	1	6	16	185	849	496	70	49	40	39	1	3	10	181
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	311	192	29	3	14	13	1	1	3	69	331	199	25	22	7	6	1	0	7	71
Philosophy and religious studies	762	537	50	30	39	39	0	6	9	91	746	534	39	37	33	32	1	3	10	90
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,823	2,845	131	186	297	291	6	16	61	2,287	6,016	2,921	121	190	305	303	2	10	84	2,385
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	6,583	4,518	626	526	413	403	10	37	106	357	6,532	4,426	618	588	401	383	18	32	143	324
Public administration and social services	1,123	610	245	44	49	48	1	6	13	156	1,065	569	200	60	75	74	1	1	15	145
Social sciences and history	4,828	2,764	223	255	219	216	3	23	68	1,276	4,667	2,632	207	272	175	174	1	26	54	1,301
Social sciences	3,842	2,049	168	197	185	182	3	20	53	1,170	3,696	1,932	149	207	155	155	0	20	38	1,195
History	986	715	55	58	34	34	0	3	15	106	971	700	58	65	20	19	1	6	16	106
Theology and religious vocations	1,927	1,030	386	77	137	133	4	3	12	282	1,808	948	346	62	125	123	2	10	6	311
Transportation and materials moving	5	4	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	3
Visual and performing arts	1,793	1,117	57	71	127	124	3	2	22	397	1,808	1,127	62	76	122	121	1	5	37	379
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.)