Table 318.50.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by control of institution, level of degree, and field of study: 2016-17

Field of study	All institutions				Public institutions				Private nonprofit institutions				Private for-profit institutions
	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bache- lor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bache- lor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de- grees1
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
All fields, total	1,005,649	1,956,032	804,684	181,352	861,859	1,275,756	374,387	91,532	56,563	566,379	360,352	81,545	87,227	113,897	69,945	8,275
Agriculture and natural resources	8,207	37,719	6,844	1,561	7,861	31,571	5,401	1,468	338	5,515	1,332	93	8	633	111	0
Architecture and related services	503	8,573	7,911	291	476	5,933	4,729	220	27	2,551	3,127	71	0	89	55	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	420	7,720	1,717	349	415	5,309	1,016	224	5	2,411	701	125	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	5,550	116,759	16,284	8,087	5,458	81,459	9,229	5,325	87	35,062	7,041	2,762	5	238	14	0
Business	122,234	381,353	187,404	3,329	93,700	229,332	69,823	1,049	10,404	116,505	93,693	859	18,130	35,516	23,888	1,421
Communication, journalism, and related programs	7,377	93,778	10,128	615	7,056	67,873	4,195	491	97	24,977	5,603	124	224	928	330	0
Communications technologies	4,305	4,615	539	0	3,397	1,404	51	0	90	1,599	350	0	818	1,612	138	0
Computer and information sciences	31,162	71,420	46,555	1,982	24,682	44,982	25,883	1,326	1,626	17,987	17,831	535	4,854	8,451	2,841	121
Construction trades	5,308	153	0	0	4,528	153	0	0	189	0	0	0	591	0	0	0
Education	16,593	85,118	145,680	12,687	14,815	58,648	72,217	6,299	710	23,117	63,234	4,817	1,068	3,353	10,229	1,571
Engineering	5,915	115,640	52,841	10,371	5,803	90,841	35,541	7,653	27	24,687	17,204	2,718	85	112	96	0
Engineering technologies and engineering-     related fields2	27,024	17,665	7,403	152	23,467	13,992	3,877	89	1,315	1,888	2,955	63	2,242	1,785	571	0
English language and literature/letters	2,870	41,317	8,247	1,347	2,728	28,282	4,847	994	11	12,344	3,262	353	131	691	138	0
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,881	25,077	3,295	317	8,320	20,218	2,041	258	321	4,336	1,016	47	240	523	238	12
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,363	17,642	3,274	1,168	2,344	12,798	2,335	759	19	4,814	939	409	0	30	0	0
Health professions and related programs	186,299	238,014	119,273	77,693	125,480	130,754	46,269	37,931	20,691	75,816	53,755	37,155	40,128	31,444	19,249	2,607
Homeland security, law enforcement, and     firefighting	37,361	59,581	10,210	177	30,444	36,366	4,452	115	1,531	14,141	3,743	18	5,386	9,074	2,015	44
Legal professions and studies	6,900	4,272	8,674	35,123	4,988	2,406	2,289	12,780	546	1,261	6,197	21,430	1,366	605	188	913
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,     and humanities	386,658	43,841	2,485	95	375,193	30,797	1,138	47	9,959	12,744	1,291	29	1,506	300	56	19
Library science	158	109	4,843	42	158	73	4,033	39	0	0	810	3	0	36	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	3,454	24,073	9,086	1,925	3,446	16,359	5,496	1,393	8	7,696	3,590	532	0	18	0	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	20,827	303	0	0	14,561	166	0	0	2,352	137	0	0	3,914	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	1,093	469	274	0	1,055	165	52	0	0	273	222	0	38	31	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	30,780	49,658	9,234	854	29,404	34,599	4,636	572	469	11,363	3,962	282	907	3,696	636	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	5,037	53,264	8,655	319	4,171	39,541	5,728	281	223	13,076	2,699	31	643	647	228	7
Philosophy and religious studies	1,002	9,712	1,705	741	304	4,398	568	295	698	5,261	1,137	445	0	53	0	1
Physical sciences and science technologies	9,223	31,268	7,143	6,027	9,159	22,426	5,368	4,343	64	8,841	1,775	1,684	0	1	0	0
Precision production	5,272	32	14	0	4,664	0	0	0	220	32	14	0	388	0	0	0
Psychology	11,286	116,861	27,542	6,702	10,661	80,098	8,987	2,665	395	34,160	14,738	2,737	230	2,603	3,817	1,300
Public administration and social services	7,591	35,464	45,393	1,116	5,748	23,337	26,715	558	986	9,437	16,486	322	857	2,690	2,192	236
Social sciences and history	21,392	159,099	20,015	4,706	21,248	109,858	10,252	3,074	71	48,359	9,085	1,617	73	882	678	15
Social sciences	19,636	135,041	16,579	3,781	19,546	93,527	8,045	2,493	46	40,894	8,129	1,273	44	620	405	15
History	1,756	24,058	3,436	925	1,702	16,331	2,207	581	25	7,465	956	344	29	262	273	0
Theology and religious vocations	1,619	9,491	13,654	1,791	1	5	0	0	1,602	9,200	13,458	1,784	16	286	196	7
Transportation and materials moving	1,547	4,710	839	11	1,124	2,530	127	3	381	2,179	712	8	42	1	0	0
Visual and performing arts	19,438	91,262	17,523	1,774	15,000	49,083	7,092	1,281	1,101	34,610	8,390	492	3,337	7,569	2,041	1

1 Includes Ph.D., Ed.D., and comparable degrees at the doctoral level, as well as such degrees as M.D., D.D.S., and law degrees that were classified as first-professional degrees prior to 2010-11.

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

NOTE: Data are for degree-granting postsecondary institutions, which are institutions that grant associate's or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. 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.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2017, Completions component. (This table was prepared August 2018.)