Table 322.30.

Bachelor's degrees conferred 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	1,920,750	1,197,323	194,408	235,190	138,257	133,601	4,656	9,735	61,584	84,253	1,956,032	1,196,007	196,300	252,166	144,078	139,527	4,551	9,582	66,526	91,373
Agriculture and natural resources	36,995	29,477	1,105	2,922	1,320	1,266	54	212	1,169	790	37,719	29,577	1,180	3,192	1,381	1,315	66	250	1,235	904
Architecture and related services	8,825	4,998	469	1,318	787	772	15	30	273	950	8,573	4,630	466	1,355	742	719	23	23	271	1,086
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	7,840	3,470	1,154	1,602	713	686	27	188	428	285	7,720	3,171	1,142	1,700	701	663	38	163	519	324
Biological and biomedical sciences	113,794	66,584	8,781	12,883	17,563	17,325	238	474	4,262	3,247	116,759	66,725	9,334	14,138	17,920	17,688	232	455	4,688	3,499
Business	371,690	224,640	38,239	42,557	27,215	26,211	1,004	1,847	9,779	27,413	381,353	228,806	38,204	45,609	28,045	27,098	947	1,791	10,590	28,308
Communication, journalism, and related programs	92,551	59,360	10,813	11,598	3,748	3,591	157	341	3,453	3,238	93,778	58,701	11,153	12,500	3,806	3,622	184	296	3,778	3,544
Communications technologies	4,824	2,912	572	586	255	239	16	27	255	217	4,615	2,586	626	647	278	259	19	24	200	254
Computer and information sciences	64,402	37,033	6,004	6,221	8,615	8,411	204	243	2,202	4,084	71,420	39,492	6,391	7,233	10,425	10,238	187	268	2,471	5,140
Construction trades	225	168	5	39	4	4	0	0	6	3	153	103	1	43	1	1	0	0	2	3
Education	87,221	66,992	6,611	7,841	2,140	1,962	178	595	2,100	942	85,118	64,688	6,287	8,277	2,272	2,134	138	552	2,143	899
Engineering	106,789	65,841	4,267	10,502	12,368	12,207	161	315	3,400	10,096	115,640	69,987	4,505	11,871	13,364	13,203	161	301	3,819	11,793
Engineering technologies and engineering-related     fields1	16,548	11,244	1,519	1,498	806	778	28	122	353	1,006	17,665	11,765	1,522	1,708	778	749	29	119	440	1,333
English language and literature/letters	42,797	29,855	3,456	5,226	1,771	1,700	71	201	1,716	572	41,317	28,424	3,258	5,352	1,804	1,741	63	185	1,720	574
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	25,389	16,146	3,201	3,269	1,347	1,295	52	137	798	491	25,077	15,305	3,221	3,619	1,388	1,338	50	133	890	521
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	18,436	11,005	913	4,097	1,058	1,039	19	73	786	504	17,642	10,273	859	4,074	1,071	1,051	20	48	781	536
Health professions and related programs	228,907	151,186	26,469	24,113	17,492	16,738	754	1,075	5,943	2,629	238,014	155,670	27,363	26,381	18,290	17,533	757	1,198	6,459	2,653
Homeland security, law enforcement, and     firefighting	61,159	33,017	12,056	11,656	1,703	1,448	255	435	1,758	534	59,581	31,302	11,544	12,166	1,697	1,465	232	440	1,829	603
Legal professions and studies	4,243	2,398	720	672	213	207	6	28	148	64	4,272	2,386	659	779	201	194	7	39	156	52
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	43,669	27,129	6,550	5,750	1,567	1,457	110	389	1,408	876	43,841	26,759	6,658	6,117	1,598	1,457	141	359	1,526	824
Library science	85	65	7	9	1	1	0	1	2	0	109	86	7	5	1	0	1	2	8	0
Mathematics and statistics	22,778	13,034	992	2,153	2,441	2,417	24	52	684	3,422	24,073	13,191	1,021	2,320	2,620	2,598	22	59	771	4,091
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	386	256	30	27	17	17	0	6	14	36	303	216	25	25	12	12	0	4	9	12
Military technologies and applied sciences	358	270	41	25	5	3	2	4	12	1	469	351	39	40	14	12	2	4	14	7
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	48,833	28,551	6,352	7,472	3,106	2,990	116	282	1,751	1,319	49,658	28,178	6,397	7,945	3,405	3,282	123	269	1,993	1,471
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	50,912	34,107	5,844	5,759	2,313	2,196	117	265	1,780	844	53,264	34,468	6,215	6,578	2,555	2,432	123	323	2,072	1,053
Philosophy and religious studies	10,155	6,857	836	1,165	559	528	31	49	389	300	9,712	6,455	791	1,124	570	553	17	40	422	310
Physical sciences and science technologies	30,483	20,408	1,483	2,768	2,948	2,901	47	145	1,119	1,612	31,268	20,447	1,655	3,117	2,934	2,901	33	126	1,200	1,789
Precision production	51	35	1	3	3	3	0	0	1	8	32	24	1	2	4	3	1	0	0	1
Psychology	117,447	67,396	14,718	19,815	7,617	7,347	270	653	4,355	2,893	116,861	65,187	14,807	20,784	7,814	7,520	294	632	4,588	3,049
Public administration and social services	34,433	18,703	7,662	5,265	1,087	976	111	254	1,072	390	35,464	19,018	7,662	5,824	1,106	1,003	103	287	1,140	427
Social sciences and history	161,211	93,924	15,513	23,770	11,264	10,920	344	776	6,104	9,860	159,099	90,393	15,200	25,062	11,176	10,860	316	728	6,373	10,167
Social sciences	135,622	74,729	14,121	20,847	10,469	10,166	303	650	5,251	9,555	135,041	72,601	13,898	22,117	10,419	10,138	281	590	5,537	9,879
History	25,589	19,195	1,392	2,923	795	754	41	126	853	305	24,058	17,792	1,302	2,945	757	722	35	138	836	288
Theology and religious vocations	9,804	7,754	868	556	221	199	22	38	165	202	9,491	7,476	802	558	238	221	17	44	159	214
Transportation and materials moving	4,531	3,214	310	366	171	153	18	19	167	284	4,710	3,306	280	355	204	186	18	25	201	339
Visual and performing arts	92,979	59,294	6,847	11,687	5,819	5,614	205	459	3,732	5,141	91,262	56,861	7,025	11,666	5,663	5,476	187	395	4,059	5,593
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 2016 and Fall 2017, Completions component. (This table was prepared August 2018.)