Table 324.35.

Doctor's degrees conferred to females 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	93,626	56,845	8,808	6,252	10,856	10,673	183	474	1,992	8,399	93,778	56,480	8,807	6,653	10,966	10,777	189	440	2,063	8,369
Agriculture and natural resources	750	388	18	28	29	28	1	7	10	270	692	331	26	29	38	38	0	3	10	255
Architecture and related services	127	45	3	9	16	16	0	0	5	49	114	41	10	4	13	11	2	0	8	38
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	192	93	32	20	8	7	1	9	6	24	190	88	25	25	8	7	1	6	9	29
Biological and biomedical sciences	4,290	2,205	157	236	445	438	7	15	66	1,166	4,191	2,165	173	269	404	397	7	13	78	1,089
Business	1,400	593	365	55	109	105	4	9	12	257	1,392	610	344	62	90	83	7	7	23	256
Communication, journalism, and related programs	385	218	33	14	16	16	0	0	3	101	373	203	18	19	18	18	0	0	5	110
Communications technologies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1
Computer and information sciences	450	121	26	11	38	38	0	0	4	250	397	104	32	9	29	29	0	1	5	217
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	7,934	4,743	1,714	574	332	307	25	53	105	413	8,137	4,875	1,692	628	336	315	21	48	116	442
Engineering	2,367	743	56	74	219	219	0	4	35	1,236	2,385	705	75	78	212	212	0	3	24	1,288
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	37	14	3	1	2	2	0	0	1	16	42	18	1	1	6	6	0	0	0	16
English language and literature/letters	864	679	27	33	40	40	0	4	11	70	875	680	43	38	31	29	2	4	12	67
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	256	141	29	12	13	12	1	1	5	55	279	138	39	17	16	15	1	0	8	61
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	711	351	6	98	33	33	0	1	12	210	755	374	10	74	33	33	0	2	16	246
Health professions and related programs	41,577	26,902	3,022	2,284	7,062	6,972	90	150	809	1,348	43,297	27,646	3,241	2,440	7,451	7,365	86	157	1,005	1,357
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	97	64	11	8	2	2	0	1	2	9	97	62	14	8	1	1	0	0	1	11
Legal professions and studies	19,365	11,999	2,123	2,087	1,670	1,634	36	160	735	591	17,956	11,129	1,936	2,144	1,500	1,457	43	145	500	602
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	48	29	6	2	5	5	0	0	1	5	61	45	2	5	2	2	0	0	2	5
Library science	33	23	3	0	2	2	0	0	0	5	32	16	3	1	5	5	0	0	1	6
Mathematics and statistics	503	175	7	8	34	34	0	0	3	276	528	178	12	10	37	37	0	1	14	276
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	460	262	56	22	26	25	1	0	10	84	487	281	47	26	22	21	1	2	7	102
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	127	77	17	0	4	4	0	1	1	27	144	90	12	11	2	2	0	0	6	23
Philosophy and religious studies	240	163	18	12	14	14	0	2	3	28	280	180	21	19	15	15	0	0	6	39
Physical sciences and science technologies	1,997	918	63	75	129	126	3	7	15	790	1,940	906	58	72	120	120	0	4	45	735
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	4,959	3,361	511	393	328	318	10	29	80	257	4,874	3,261	497	442	318	301	17	24	103	229
Public administration and social services	749	423	169	31	38	37	1	6	9	73	711	373	157	41	57	57	0	0	10	73
Social sciences and history	2,239	1,295	139	125	120	120	0	13	34	513	2,096	1,192	117	130	92	92	0	16	30	519
Social sciences	1,788	977	107	98	105	105	0	12	26	463	1,653	885	85	98	80	80	0	11	20	474
History	451	318	32	27	15	15	0	1	8	50	443	307	32	32	12	12	0	5	10	45
Theology and religious vocations	512	263	166	16	32	29	3	0	5	30	497	237	165	16	27	26	1	3	3	46
Transportation and materials moving	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Visual and performing arts	956	556	28	24	90	90	0	2	10	246	951	550	36	35	82	82	0	1	16	231
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 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.)