Table 321.50.

Associate's degrees conferred to females by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2015-16 and 2016-17

Field of study	2015-16										2016-17
	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	616,144	340,480	89,235	121,513	30,327	28,495	1,832	6,155	17,682	10,752	611,490	327,372	86,701	130,674	31,348	29,542	1,806	5,896	17,954	11,545
Agriculture and natural resources	2,975	2,580	40	190	19	19	0	51	79	16	3,168	2,719	46	227	34	32	2	45	76	21
Architecture and related services	148	49	8	66	15	15	0	0	2	8	171	61	8	71	16	16	0	1	6	8
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	263	62	22	65	16	4	12	52	33	13	239	65	20	61	11	3	8	49	26	7
Biological and biomedical sciences	3,469	1,439	315	1,090	403	393	10	40	105	77	3,801	1,519	303	1,245	452	443	9	50	139	93
Business	78,663	41,061	13,541	13,295	5,115	4,856	259	935	2,237	2,479	73,830	37,386	12,283	13,637	5,081	4,813	268	800	2,041	2,602
Communication, journalism, and related programs	3,965	1,591	414	1,334	269	260	9	11	188	158	4,175	1,637	451	1,464	298	284	14	17	160	148
Communications technologies	1,448	824	185	249	80	75	5	8	71	31	1,465	850	178	263	53	53	0	12	51	58
Computer and information sciences	6,434	3,536	1,164	748	500	478	22	94	205	187	6,346	3,359	1,119	834	528	514	14	71	233	202
Construction trades	253	133	47	32	25	23	2	5	11	0	352	163	51	43	46	36	10	13	30	6
Education	15,047	8,503	2,261	3,156	285	259	26	382	316	144	14,711	8,202	2,175	3,196	352	315	37	302	348	136
Engineering	770	361	62	159	94	90	4	5	25	64	920	436	44	212	113	112	1	7	22	86
Engineering technologies and engineering-related     fields1	3,697	2,255	511	483	171	159	12	50	133	94	3,746	2,227	491	574	157	139	18	61	118	118
English language and literature/letters	1,698	763	96	605	113	104	9	13	79	29	1,917	778	136	748	137	133	4	2	80	36
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,557	3,913	1,587	2,307	407	394	13	90	148	105	8,521	3,639	1,437	2,694	375	358	17	87	178	111
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,709	792	86	654	57	54	3	15	74	31	1,766	768	83	744	58	55	3	9	64	40
Health professions and related programs	160,837	103,907	23,633	20,700	6,596	6,139	457	1,481	3,667	853	156,520	98,353	23,718	21,751	6,620	6,188	432	1,512	3,649	917
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	17,568	7,276	3,949	5,221	326	273	53	186	508	102	16,351	6,622	3,377	5,430	331	274	57	144	357	90
Legal professions and studies	6,893	4,167	1,087	1,234	136	128	8	54	172	43	5,866	3,449	879	1,167	124	110	14	55	144	48
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	235,072	127,332	32,784	50,808	10,354	9,672	682	2,026	7,137	4,631	239,135	125,923	32,539	55,126	10,862	10,196	666	2,042	7,721	4,922
Library science	117	85	3	20	5	5	0	0	3	1	138	97	9	20	7	7	0	2	3	0
Mathematics and statistics	868	299	35	269	177	175	2	4	30	54	1,084	343	34	355	226	220	6	5	35	86
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	1,242	719	215	166	48	38	10	23	55	16	1,426	895	235	192	27	24	3	22	46	9
Military technologies and applied sciences	175	102	24	35	3	2	1	2	9	0	214	132	35	25	6	4	2	2	14	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	17,725	8,122	1,549	5,002	1,966	1,895	71	113	682	291	17,907	7,680	1,506	5,556	2,102	2,056	46	85	647	331
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	1,904	882	147	588	165	160	5	17	82	23	2,082	830	161	795	167	158	9	20	86	23
Philosophy and religious studies	430	328	43	31	5	4	1	1	10	12	428	319	34	41	11	9	2	3	7	13
Physical sciences and science technologies	3,379	1,465	408	750	445	426	19	38	124	149	3,766	1,585	503	854	499	483	16	31	137	157
Precision production	313	230	13	41	7	6	1	12	9	1	367	263	24	44	11	11	0	13	12	0
Psychology	8,012	2,833	657	3,539	528	497	31	100	275	80	8,613	2,933	668	3,890	616	581	35	86	328	92
Public administration and social services	6,879	3,198	2,020	1,151	121	114	7	124	212	53	6,539	2,955	1,876	1,291	99	80	19	120	166	32
Social sciences and history	12,667	4,389	1,132	5,105	1,133	1,075	58	124	557	227	13,411	4,445	1,104	5,705	1,164	1,105	59	131	572	290
Social sciences	12,017	4,076	1,107	4,863	1,105	1,049	56	112	529	225	12,756	4,110	1,079	5,476	1,138	1,081	57	124	541	288
History	650	313	25	242	28	26	2	12	28	2	655	335	25	229	26	24	2	7	31	2
Theology and religious vocations	577	357	143	51	5	4	1	4	10	7	627	346	172	58	14	13	1	9	19	9
Transportation and materials moving	205	101	11	49	16	16	0	1	9	18	209	95	13	50	21	18	3	4	8	18
Visual and performing arts	12,185	6,826	1,043	2,320	722	683	39	94	425	755	11,679	6,298	989	2,311	730	699	31	84	431	836
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 degree-granting postsecondary institutions, which are institutions that grant associate's or higher degrees and participate 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 2016 and Fall 2017, Completions component. (This table was prepared August 2018.)