Table 324.25.

Doctor'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	178,134	107,235	13,377	11,781	19,614	19,283	331	811	3,782	21,534	181,352	107,445	14,067	12,493	20,344	20,016	328	746	4,166	22,091
Agriculture and natural resources	1,526	750	43	60	57	57	0	6	17	593	1,561	722	49	56	51	51	0	3	20	660
Architecture and related services	245	84	18	11	27	25	2	0	11	94	291	103	7	15	36	33	3	1	9	120
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	323	156	45	38	17	14	3	7	10	50	349	153	58	42	18	18	0	4	9	65
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,939	4,232	274	446	716	704	12	26	138	2,107	8,087	4,246	303	467	769	758	11	25	210	2,067
Business	3,325	1,535	671	160	220	209	11	14	50	675	3,329	1,412	721	206	238	231	7	14	43	695
Communication, journalism, and related programs	629	368	25	33	23	22	1	0	9	171	615	357	49	30	35	35	0	2	12	130
Communications technologies	4	1	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	1,989	602	92	44	106	105	1	1	22	1,122	1,982	617	85	54	116	115	1	2	19	1,089
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	11,838	7,248	2,268	933	457	425	32	76	168	688	12,687	7,583	2,635	1,009	443	406	37	89	219	709
Engineering	10,265	3,178	207	294	718	715	3	11	121	5,736	10,371	3,076	187	319	749	744	5	12	117	5,911
Engineering technologies and engineering-related     fields1	133	59	5	6	6	6	0	0	2	55	152	65	13	6	11	11	0	0	0	57
English language and literature/letters	1,402	1,088	57	63	49	47	2	7	20	118	1,347	994	54	97	49	47	2	10	32	111
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	374	182	55	21	18	17	1	1	8	89	317	172	30	18	21	21	0	1	5	70
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,278	669	15	126	38	38	0	4	21	405	1,168	604	12	121	50	50	0	4	13	364
Health professions and related programs	73,687	47,242	4,716	4,224	13,063	12,909	154	270	1,793	2,379	77,693	49,286	5,031	4,851	13,715	13,536	179	260	1,949	2,601
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	205	123	38	15	2	2	0	0	2	25	177	107	30	16	2	2	0	1	0	21
Legal professions and studies	37,034	24,989	3,110	3,872	2,678	2,598	80	293	977	1,115	35,123	23,319	3,006	3,730	2,594	2,537	57	231	1,022	1,221
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	105	79	3	7	4	4	0	0	3	9	95	74	3	5	4	3	1	1	3	5
Library science	54	30	3	1	5	5	0	0	2	13	42	21	4	3	4	3	1	0	0	10
Mathematics and statistics	1,855	723	39	63	111	111	0	4	39	876	1,925	739	22	50	138	138	0	3	30	943
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	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	849	496	70	49	40	39	1	3	10	181	854	462	82	40	44	44	0	5	20	201
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	331	199	25	22	7	6	1	0	7	71	319	208	20	11	6	6	0	1	7	66
Philosophy and religious studies	750	535	40	37	33	32	1	3	10	92	741	509	42	29	31	31	0	2	18	110
Physical sciences and science technologies	6,057	2,939	121	194	309	307	2	10	84	2,400	6,027	2,910	110	227	327	326	1	14	85	2,354
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	6,540	4,430	618	588	404	385	19	32	143	325	6,702	4,525	623	597	388	373	15	25	162	382
Public administration and social services	1,066	569	200	60	76	75	1	1	15	145	1,116	575	238	67	54	54	0	5	26	151
Social sciences and history	4,706	2,655	210	276	179	178	1	27	54	1,305	4,706	2,564	238	259	215	211	4	19	88	1,323
Social sciences	3,726	1,949	152	209	158	158	0	21	38	1,199	3,781	1,909	197	184	189	185	4	13	71	1,218
History	980	706	58	67	21	20	1	6	16	106	925	655	41	75	26	26	0	6	17	105
Theology and religious vocations	1,808	948	346	62	125	123	2	10	6	311	1,791	949	365	71	143	140	3	4	12	247
Transportation and materials moving	8	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	2	3	11	7	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4
Visual and performing arts	1,809	1,124	62	76	125	124	1	5	38	379	1,774	1,086	50	97	93	92	1	8	36	404
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.)