Table 323.30.

Master'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	785,757	431,885	88,786	63,060	45,921	44,335	1,586	3,538	16,589	135,978	804,684	433,625	89,577	67,166	47,841	46,255	1,586	3,396	17,668	145,411
Agriculture and natural resources	6,702	4,644	228	361	200	197	3	32	137	1,100	6,844	4,616	245	392	221	214	7	34	185	1,151
Architecture and related services	7,991	3,908	335	722	480	472	8	12	168	2,366	7,911	3,635	332	703	443	435	8	25	168	2,605
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,767	822	160	271	84	80	4	44	61	325	1,717	765	165	222	129	121	8	69	64	303
Biological and biomedical sciences	15,717	8,425	1,072	1,177	2,075	2,062	13	28	437	2,503	16,284	8,505	1,198	1,288	2,162	2,146	16	43	495	2,593
Business	186,835	94,398	26,226	14,535	13,866	13,374	492	772	3,642	33,396	187,404	94,269	25,667	15,354	13,879	13,414	465	737	3,750	33,748
Communication, journalism, and related programs	9,676	5,061	1,243	809	336	320	16	31	257	1,939	10,128	5,121	1,350	942	380	370	10	38	304	1,993
Communications technologies	491	166	35	27	18	18	0	1	9	235	539	197	27	29	33	33	0	3	8	242
Computer and information sciences	40,130	8,018	2,208	1,193	2,909	2,869	40	66	428	25,308	46,555	8,665	2,345	1,275	3,588	3,539	49	78	531	30,073
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	145,792	101,747	16,259	14,732	4,706	4,396	310	861	2,992	4,495	145,680	101,781	15,958	15,162	4,562	4,290	272	709	3,071	4,437
Engineering	51,646	14,724	1,174	1,992	3,698	3,675	23	72	711	29,275	52,841	14,862	1,147	2,147	3,744	3,705	39	67	697	30,177
Engineering technologies and engineering-related     fields1	6,067	2,328	403	257	288	282	6	25	85	2,681	7,403	2,324	394	253	296	290	6	28	82	4,026
English language and literature/letters	8,581	6,442	498	656	262	256	6	46	301	376	8,247	6,108	483	700	278	272	6	57	270	351
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	3,228	1,964	516	324	111	107	4	18	70	225	3,295	2,025	498	318	129	116	13	15	82	228
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	3,407	1,649	87	539	140	135	5	15	86	891	3,274	1,547	81	535	96	96	0	9	95	911
Health professions and related programs	110,350	71,620	14,176	8,435	8,857	8,534	323	562	2,498	4,202	119,273	76,108	15,907	9,733	9,638	9,324	314	588	2,832	4,467
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	9,775	5,614	2,359	1,031	259	233	26	79	227	206	10,210	5,726	2,438	1,161	295	254	41	65	286	239
Legal professions and studies	8,181	2,095	554	429	244	234	10	51	70	4,738	8,674	2,083	699	494	326	320	6	61	92	4,919
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	2,598	1,735	291	234	51	46	5	20	83	184	2,485	1,668	287	257	63	59	4	25	62	123
Library science	4,926	3,850	238	391	161	155	6	20	184	82	4,843	3,824	256	389	131	125	6	24	146	73
Mathematics and statistics	8,451	2,816	197	294	570	566	4	9	100	4,465	9,086	2,777	188	311	664	659	5	5	132	5,009
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	152	102	23	5	6	6	0	0	4	12	274	158	67	15	5	5	0	0	3	26
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	8,554	5,065	854	667	532	506	26	36	199	1,201	9,234	5,154	902	809	516	506	10	45	295	1,513
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	8,268	5,788	1,046	571	150	139	11	42	197	474	8,655	5,826	1,184	692	202	179	23	31	287	433
Philosophy and religious studies	1,756	1,233	126	124	61	59	2	3	46	163	1,705	1,149	116	144	81	80	1	4	41	170
Physical sciences and science technologies	7,131	3,888	181	378	415	409	6	30	176	2,063	7,143	3,857	187	396	382	376	6	14	159	2,148
Precision production	10	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	14	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	9
Psychology	27,645	17,583	3,790	3,179	1,109	1,045	64	152	744	1,088	27,542	16,975	3,788	3,463	1,199	1,108	91	150	897	1,070
Public administration and social services	46,754	25,469	9,325	5,984	1,776	1,667	109	296	1,336	2,568	45,393	24,290	8,755	6,230	1,896	1,785	111	285	1,295	2,642
Social sciences and history	19,861	11,141	1,467	1,634	852	830	22	71	505	4,191	20,015	10,941	1,431	1,724	892	872	20	74	546	4,407
Social sciences	16,396	8,401	1,314	1,353	788	774	14	58	410	4,072	16,579	8,205	1,313	1,456	827	808	19	63	446	4,269
History	3,465	2,740	153	281	64	56	8	13	95	119	3,436	2,736	118	268	65	64	1	11	100	138
Theology and religious vocations	14,352	9,049	2,476	770	743	721	22	71	243	1,000	13,654	8,756	2,229	689	705	682	23	53	242	980
Transportation and materials moving	911	612	72	49	39	38	1	6	44	89	839	547	98	43	35	33	2	4	43	69
Visual and performing arts	18,052	9,922	1,167	1,290	923	904	19	67	549	4,134	17,523	9,362	1,155	1,296	870	846	24	56	508	4,276
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.)