Table 322.40.

Bachelor's degrees conferred to males 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	821,746	522,834	69,847	92,989	63,182	61,141	2,041	3,822	25,157	43,915	836,045	521,421	70,554	99,331	65,398	63,429	1,969	3,730	27,084	48,527
Agriculture and natural resources	17,617	14,559	440	1,206	518	492	26	110	440	344	17,816	14,473	454	1,350	540	513	27	126	476	397
Architecture and related services	4,853	2,859	275	737	362	350	12	20	130	470	4,585	2,614	280	731	335	324	11	13	126	486
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	2,225	992	316	439	199	184	15	76	109	94	2,114	886	299	410	200	186	14	65	128	126
Biological and biomedical sciences	45,613	27,300	2,653	5,040	7,434	7,325	109	170	1,728	1,288	45,515	26,570	2,802	5,431	7,366	7,264	102	170	1,851	1,325
Business	196,309	125,515	16,424	20,555	13,505	13,007	498	841	4,932	14,537	201,886	128,100	16,590	22,197	13,802	13,341	461	834	5,340	15,023
Communication, journalism, and related programs	32,441	21,038	4,121	3,838	1,231	1,164	67	111	1,117	985	32,478	20,617	4,236	4,066	1,218	1,151	67	110	1,141	1,090
Communications technologies	3,099	1,866	370	401	141	129	12	18	170	133	2,879	1,631	398	416	149	134	15	16	122	147
Computer and information sciences	52,330	31,223	4,474	5,076	6,586	6,434	152	193	1,679	3,099	57,766	33,255	4,731	5,884	7,871	7,715	156	208	1,911	3,906
Construction trades	208	160	3	32	4	4	0	0	6	3	133	97	1	31	0	0	0	0	2	2
Education	17,429	13,106	1,677	1,440	443	396	47	136	443	184	16,067	12,087	1,514	1,370	419	386	33	109	397	171
Engineering	84,456	53,068	3,203	8,217	9,253	9,129	124	250	2,487	7,978	90,736	55,877	3,377	9,177	9,844	9,725	119	240	2,831	9,390
Engineering technologies and engineering-related     fields1	14,545	10,033	1,235	1,277	695	673	22	101	291	913	15,383	10,413	1,239	1,435	646	618	28	100	368	1,182
English language and literature/letters	12,777	8,973	926	1,633	534	510	24	65	482	164	12,247	8,478	959	1,576	525	505	20	68	454	187
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,982	1,752	451	341	225	207	18	10	100	103	3,022	1,660	454	436	221	213	8	19	120	112
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	5,755	3,665	242	1,140	315	306	9	26	218	149	5,561	3,434	222	1,149	329	320	9	18	240	169
Health professions and related programs	36,262	22,131	3,937	4,149	4,075	3,897	178	170	1,050	750	37,758	22,698	4,046	4,639	4,272	4,101	171	183	1,150	770
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	32,600	19,633	4,942	5,632	1,024	884	140	212	851	306	31,585	18,531	4,717	5,812	1,032	889	143	197	897	399
Legal professions and studies	1,296	759	172	196	78	77	1	6	50	35	1,355	802	173	227	76	73	3	15	44	18
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	16,150	10,276	2,582	1,734	542	493	49	142	527	347	15,999	10,119	2,551	1,804	542	489	53	135	536	312
Library science	6	5	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	13,090	7,580	503	1,246	1,454	1,436	18	34	403	1,870	14,002	7,825	527	1,352	1,556	1,541	15	43	453	2,246
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	359	239	28	23	16	16	0	6	13	34	287	203	24	25	12	12	0	3	9	11
Military technologies and applied sciences	290	228	27	17	4	3	1	4	9	1	401	306	28	36	10	9	1	3	12	6
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	16,244	9,825	2,036	2,189	1,036	997	39	107	549	502	16,800	9,912	2,093	2,189	1,244	1,189	55	86	686	590
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	26,708	17,583	3,342	3,026	1,290	1,226	64	117	854	496	27,390	17,506	3,411	3,281	1,393	1,316	77	136	1,027	636
Philosophy and religious studies	6,371	4,416	455	731	319	301	18	31	223	196	6,008	4,106	443	708	297	288	9	28	249	177
Physical sciences and science technologies	18,671	12,970	688	1,695	1,626	1,602	24	84	670	938	18,860	12,872	754	1,862	1,557	1,545	12	66	689	1,060
Precision production	28	25	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	18	15	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0
Psychology	26,277	15,104	2,968	4,243	2,119	2,058	61	141	995	707	25,526	14,139	3,036	4,414	1,985	1,920	65	147	1,036	769
Public administration and social services	6,023	3,334	1,262	838	245	218	27	39	196	109	6,238	3,423	1,235	967	269	249	20	54	184	106
Social sciences and history	81,292	51,322	6,142	10,168	5,479	5,309	170	354	2,781	5,046	79,568	48,843	6,122	10,735	5,390	5,228	162	323	2,878	5,277
Social sciences	66,006	39,624	5,399	8,488	5,031	4,883	148	277	2,321	4,866	65,262	38,066	5,434	9,011	4,955	4,816	139	238	2,445	5,113
History	15,286	11,698	743	1,680	448	426	22	77	460	180	14,306	10,777	688	1,724	435	412	23	85	433	164
Theology and religious vocations	6,749	5,549	468	323	143	125	18	23	97	146	6,619	5,436	415	334	145	138	7	28	93	168
Transportation and materials moving	3,979	2,846	259	320	153	137	16	16	144	241	4,136	2,949	236	293	170	154	16	22	165	301
Visual and performing arts	36,712	22,900	3,225	5,087	2,132	2,050	82	209	1,413	1,746	35,296	21,533	3,186	4,993	1,982	1,893	89	165	1,469	1,968
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.)