Table 322.50.

Bachelor'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	1,099,004	674,489	124,561	142,201	75,075	72,460	2,615	5,913	36,427	40,338	1,119,987	674,586	125,746	152,835	78,680	76,098	2,582	5,852	39,442	42,846
Agriculture and natural resources	19,378	14,918	665	1,716	802	774	28	102	729	446	19,903	15,104	726	1,842	841	802	39	124	759	507
Architecture and related services	3,972	2,139	194	581	425	422	3	10	143	480	3,988	2,016	186	624	407	395	12	10	145	600
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	5,615	2,478	838	1,163	514	502	12	112	319	191	5,606	2,285	843	1,290	501	477	24	98	391	198
Biological and biomedical sciences	68,181	39,284	6,128	7,843	10,129	10,000	129	304	2,534	1,959	71,244	40,155	6,532	8,707	10,554	10,424	130	285	2,837	2,174
Business	175,381	99,125	21,815	22,002	13,710	13,204	506	1,006	4,847	12,876	179,467	100,706	21,614	23,412	14,243	13,757	486	957	5,250	13,285
Communication, journalism, and related programs	60,110	38,322	6,692	7,760	2,517	2,427	90	230	2,336	2,253	61,300	38,084	6,917	8,434	2,588	2,471	117	186	2,637	2,454
Communications technologies	1,725	1,046	202	185	114	110	4	9	85	84	1,736	955	228	231	129	125	4	8	78	107
Computer and information sciences	12,072	5,810	1,530	1,145	2,029	1,977	52	50	523	985	13,654	6,237	1,660	1,349	2,554	2,523	31	60	560	1,234
Construction trades	17	8	2	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	20	6	0	12	1	1	0	0	0	1
Education	69,792	53,886	4,934	6,401	1,697	1,566	131	459	1,657	758	69,051	52,601	4,773	6,907	1,853	1,748	105	443	1,746	728
Engineering	22,333	12,773	1,064	2,285	3,115	3,078	37	65	913	2,118	24,904	14,110	1,128	2,694	3,520	3,478	42	61	988	2,403
Engineering technologies and engineering-related     fields1	2,003	1,211	284	221	111	105	6	21	62	93	2,282	1,352	283	273	132	131	1	19	72	151
English language and literature/letters	30,020	20,882	2,530	3,593	1,237	1,190	47	136	1,234	408	29,070	19,946	2,299	3,776	1,279	1,236	43	117	1,266	387
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	22,407	14,394	2,750	2,928	1,122	1,088	34	127	698	388	22,055	13,645	2,767	3,183	1,167	1,125	42	114	770	409
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	12,681	7,340	671	2,957	743	733	10	47	568	355	12,081	6,839	637	2,925	742	731	11	30	541	367
Health professions and related programs	192,645	129,055	22,532	19,964	13,417	12,841	576	905	4,893	1,879	200,256	132,972	23,317	21,742	14,018	13,432	586	1,015	5,309	1,883
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	28,559	13,384	7,114	6,024	679	564	115	223	907	228	27,996	12,771	6,827	6,354	665	576	89	243	932	204
Legal professions and studies	2,947	1,639	548	476	135	130	5	22	98	29	2,917	1,584	486	552	125	121	4	24	112	34
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	27,519	16,853	3,968	4,016	1,025	964	61	247	881	529	27,842	16,640	4,107	4,313	1,056	968	88	224	990	512
Library science	79	60	6	9	1	1	0	1	2	0	98	75	7	5	1	0	1	2	8	0
Mathematics and statistics	9,688	5,454	489	907	987	981	6	18	281	1,552	10,071	5,366	494	968	1,064	1,057	7	16	318	1,845
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	27	17	2	4	1	1	0	0	1	2	16	13	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1
Military technologies and applied sciences	68	42	14	8	1	0	1	0	3	0	68	45	11	4	4	3	1	1	2	1
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	32,589	18,726	4,316	5,283	2,070	1,993	77	175	1,202	817	32,858	18,266	4,304	5,756	2,161	2,093	68	183	1,307	881
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	24,204	16,524	2,502	2,733	1,023	970	53	148	926	348	25,874	16,962	2,804	3,297	1,162	1,116	46	187	1,045	417
Philosophy and religious studies	3,784	2,441	381	434	240	227	13	18	166	104	3,704	2,349	348	416	273	265	8	12	173	133
Physical sciences and science technologies	11,812	7,438	795	1,073	1,322	1,299	23	61	449	674	12,408	7,575	901	1,255	1,377	1,356	21	60	511	729
Precision production	23	10	1	3	1	1	0	0	1	7	14	9	0	1	3	3	0	0	0	1
Psychology	91,170	52,292	11,750	15,572	5,498	5,289	209	512	3,360	2,186	91,335	51,048	11,771	16,370	5,829	5,600	229	485	3,552	2,280
Public administration and social services	28,410	15,369	6,400	4,427	842	758	84	215	876	281	29,226	15,595	6,427	4,857	837	754	83	233	956	321
Social sciences and history	79,919	42,602	9,371	13,602	5,785	5,611	174	422	3,323	4,814	79,531	41,550	9,078	14,327	5,786	5,632	154	405	3,495	4,890
Social sciences	69,616	35,105	8,722	12,359	5,438	5,283	155	373	2,930	4,689	69,779	34,535	8,464	13,106	5,464	5,322	142	352	3,092	4,766
History	10,303	7,497	649	1,243	347	328	19	49	393	125	9,752	7,015	614	1,221	322	310	12	53	403	124
Theology and religious vocations	3,055	2,205	400	233	78	74	4	15	68	56	2,872	2,040	387	224	93	83	10	16	66	46
Transportation and materials moving	552	368	51	46	18	16	2	3	23	43	574	357	44	62	34	32	2	3	36	38
Visual and performing arts	56,267	36,394	3,622	6,600	3,687	3,564	123	250	2,319	3,395	55,966	35,328	3,839	6,673	3,681	3,583	98	230	2,590	3,625
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.)