Table 323.50.

Master'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	465,183	265,724	61,762	40,311	25,850	24,873	977	2,309	10,460	58,767	477,792	268,906	62,601	43,369	27,136	26,140	996	2,246	11,218	62,316
Agriculture and natural resources	3,737	2,559	129	215	128	125	3	14	80	612	3,806	2,558	131	230	137	132	5	25	99	626
Architecture and related services	3,826	1,658	166	323	295	291	4	6	90	1,288	3,897	1,582	163	336	251	247	4	14	77	1,474
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,131	481	113	179	56	54	2	37	45	220	1,123	485	112	150	82	79	3	47	48	199
Biological and biomedical sciences	9,010	4,658	728	668	1,159	1,153	6	14	255	1,528	9,444	4,767	824	728	1,209	1,200	9	24	285	1,607
Business	87,347	39,739	16,116	7,134	6,302	6,055	247	397	1,800	15,859	88,636	40,137	15,913	7,657	6,461	6,223	238	413	1,894	16,161
Communication, journalism, and related programs	6,814	3,427	906	587	255	247	8	23	188	1,428	7,185	3,532	999	662	292	287	5	27	218	1,455
Communications technologies	249	77	16	11	11	11	0	1	7	126	262	84	14	14	25	25	0	1	2	122
Computer and information sciences	12,342	1,941	825	341	964	951	13	25	128	8,118	14,382	2,026	884	349	1,162	1,149	13	24	165	9,772
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	112,001	77,894	12,683	11,381	3,656	3,423	233	653	2,289	3,445	112,503	78,484	12,451	11,761	3,587	3,372	215	540	2,341	3,339
Engineering	12,891	3,149	331	525	1,101	1,096	5	20	186	7,579	13,082	3,331	308	528	1,046	1,033	13	20	190	7,659
Engineering technologies and engineering-related     fields1	1,624	526	127	61	94	92	2	3	27	786	1,942	549	112	81	115	112	3	12	33	1,040
English language and literature/letters	5,697	4,244	361	399	195	190	5	27	204	267	5,508	4,022	360	457	202	197	5	39	181	247
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,767	1,691	435	283	96	93	3	16	60	186	2,859	1,750	440	282	115	102	13	14	67	191
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,233	1,017	63	387	106	103	3	12	55	593	2,104	965	51	354	74	74	0	8	61	591
Health professions and related programs	89,926	59,444	11,880	6,694	6,670	6,422	248	448	2,044	2,746	97,291	62,982	13,386	7,775	7,411	7,170	241	475	2,301	2,961
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	4,867	2,438	1,520	525	113	104	9	42	134	95	5,033	2,479	1,524	602	149	131	18	32	150	97
Legal professions and studies	4,306	1,026	353	238	123	119	4	31	38	2,497	4,763	1,025	461	282	178	176	2	32	51	2,734
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	1,587	1,037	196	141	38	35	3	9	50	116	1,536	1,008	189	170	35	34	1	11	33	90
Library science	4,019	3,125	206	325	127	123	4	19	155	62	4,001	3,151	220	326	104	101	3	22	125	53
Mathematics and statistics	3,527	1,045	74	99	244	244	0	4	30	2,031	3,970	1,040	75	112	322	321	1	2	54	2,365
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	36	25	5	1	1	1	0	0	2	2	62	28	22	6	0	0	0	0	3	3
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	5,345	3,167	565	422	359	342	17	27	132	673	5,832	3,316	611	528	312	303	9	30	209	826
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	3,535	2,487	440	237	59	53	6	20	89	203	3,676	2,513	451	277	88	75	13	16	137	194
Philosophy and religious studies	627	412	59	43	25	24	1	0	22	66	597	401	49	47	27	27	0	0	13	60
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,696	1,418	78	147	197	193	4	11	66	779	2,725	1,441	93	158	167	163	4	3	59	804
Precision production	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	10	2	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	7
Psychology	22,074	13,968	3,130	2,556	871	822	49	110	576	863	21,954	13,443	3,112	2,791	938	860	78	116	712	842
Public administration and social services	35,570	19,353	7,474	4,600	1,318	1,245	73	239	1,035	1,551	34,594	18,580	6,976	4,843	1,357	1,282	75	220	1,031	1,587
Social sciences and history	9,851	5,261	926	827	460	446	14	36	268	2,073	10,101	5,245	922	932	487	477	10	39	298	2,178
Social sciences	8,292	4,059	844	704	426	416	10	31	215	2,013	8,550	4,041	858	802	453	443	10	34	250	2,112
History	1,559	1,202	82	123	34	30	4	5	53	60	1,551	1,204	64	130	34	34	0	5	48	66
Theology and religious vocations	4,985	2,859	1,235	284	232	227	5	29	82	264	4,789	2,788	1,134	223	247	242	5	18	97	282
Transportation and materials moving	186	114	21	11	8	8	0	1	12	19	167	106	19	10	7	6	1	2	10	13
Visual and performing arts	10,373	5,482	601	667	587	581	6	35	311	2,690	9,958	5,086	595	698	548	539	9	20	274	2,737
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.)