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Table 324.30. | Doctor'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 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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 | 84,240 | 50,694 | 4,564 | 5,122 | 8,632 | 8,491 | 141 | 371 | 1,718 | 13,139 | 84,646 | 50,003 | 4,791 | 5,421 | 8,906 | 8,782 | 124 | 307 | 1,780 | 13,438 |
Agriculture and natural resources | 827 | 415 | 17 | 29 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 3 | 7 | 338 | 805 | 362 | 21 | 26 | 23 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 367 |
Architecture and related services | 128 | 40 | 8 | 7 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 56 | 146 | 49 | 4 | 7 | 15 | 14 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 67 |
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies | 130 | 66 | 20 | 13 | 8 | 6 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 21 | 120 | 59 | 13 | 14 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 27 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 3,733 | 2,055 | 100 | 176 | 311 | 306 | 5 | 13 | 60 | 1,018 | 3,852 | 2,088 | 109 | 209 | 347 | 341 | 6 | 17 | 99 | 983 |
Business | 1,933 | 925 | 327 | 98 | 130 | 126 | 4 | 7 | 27 | 419 | 1,854 | 845 | 321 | 107 | 138 | 136 | 2 | 7 | 20 | 416 |
Communication, journalism, and related programs | 256 | 165 | 7 | 14 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 4 | 61 | 208 | 138 | 10 | 14 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 39 |
Communications technologies | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Computer and information sciences | 1,591 | 497 | 60 | 35 | 77 | 76 | 1 | 0 | 17 | 905 | 1,538 | 473 | 54 | 42 | 86 | 86 | 0 | 1 | 16 | 866 |
Construction trades | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Education | 3,693 | 2,370 | 574 | 305 | 119 | 108 | 11 | 28 | 52 | 245 | 4,013 | 2,540 | 684 | 324 | 105 | 97 | 8 | 23 | 68 | 269 |
Engineering | 7,869 | 2,468 | 132 | 216 | 505 | 502 | 3 | 8 | 97 | 4,443 | 7,923 | 2,364 | 124 | 235 | 526 | 522 | 4 | 9 | 82 | 4,583 |
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1 | 91 | 41 | 4 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 39 | 104 | 47 | 8 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 40 |
English language and literature/letters | 522 | 404 | 14 | 25 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 3 | 8 | 51 | 519 | 399 | 12 | 41 | 12 | 12 | 0 | 3 | 10 | 42 |
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences | 95 | 44 | 16 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 28 | 77 | 38 | 7 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 23 |
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics | 514 | 289 | 5 | 52 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 5 | 156 | 479 | 250 | 1 | 42 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 3 | 6 | 163 |
Health professions and related programs | 30,387 | 19,602 | 1,473 | 1,784 | 5,615 | 5,547 | 68 | 113 | 788 | 1,012 | 31,845 | 20,341 | 1,615 | 2,046 | 5,809 | 5,734 | 75 | 94 | 786 | 1,154 |
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting | 108 | 61 | 24 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 14 | 89 | 57 | 15 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 13 |
Legal professions and studies | 19,077 | 13,859 | 1,174 | 1,728 | 1,178 | 1,141 | 37 | 148 | 477 | 513 | 17,703 | 12,637 | 1,122 | 1,685 | 1,145 | 1,121 | 24 | 107 | 476 | 531 |
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities | 44 | 34 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 32 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 4 |
Library science | 22 | 14 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 7 | 13 | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Mathematics and statistics | 1,324 | 544 | 27 | 53 | 73 | 73 | 0 | 3 | 25 | 599 | 1,403 | 559 | 18 | 39 | 87 | 87 | 0 | 3 | 23 | 674 |
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 | 362 | 215 | 23 | 23 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 1 | 3 | 79 | 358 | 192 | 26 | 16 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 1 | 6 | 104 |
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies | 187 | 109 | 13 | 11 | 5 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 48 | 159 | 104 | 6 | 6 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 38 |
Philosophy and religious studies | 468 | 354 | 19 | 18 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 52 | 507 | 361 | 23 | 21 | 19 | 19 | 0 | 2 | 10 | 71 |
Physical sciences and science technologies | 4,102 | 2,025 | 63 | 121 | 187 | 185 | 2 | 6 | 39 | 1,661 | 4,072 | 1,983 | 64 | 141 | 203 | 203 | 0 | 5 | 53 | 1,623 |
Precision production | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Psychology | 1,658 | 1,165 | 121 | 146 | 83 | 82 | 1 | 8 | 40 | 95 | 1,691 | 1,212 | 121 | 131 | 84 | 83 | 1 | 7 | 27 | 109 |
Public administration and social services | 354 | 196 | 43 | 19 | 18 | 17 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 72 | 381 | 205 | 71 | 17 | 16 | 16 | 0 | 1 | 5 | 66 |
Social sciences and history | 2,594 | 1,452 | 92 | 144 | 85 | 84 | 1 | 11 | 24 | 786 | 2,572 | 1,373 | 108 | 125 | 104 | 103 | 1 | 14 | 45 | 803 |
Social sciences | 2,062 | 1,057 | 66 | 109 | 77 | 77 | 0 | 10 | 18 | 725 | 2,039 | 992 | 86 | 84 | 90 | 89 | 1 | 9 | 36 | 742 |
History | 532 | 395 | 26 | 35 | 8 | 7 | 1 | 1 | 6 | 61 | 533 | 381 | 22 | 41 | 14 | 14 | 0 | 5 | 9 | 61 |
Theology and religious vocations | 1,311 | 711 | 181 | 46 | 98 | 97 | 1 | 7 | 3 | 265 | 1,361 | 755 | 205 | 62 | 112 | 111 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 212 |
Transportation and materials moving | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 3 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
Visual and performing arts | 853 | 573 | 26 | 41 | 40 | 39 | 1 | 4 | 21 | 148 | 812 | 535 | 27 | 62 | 27 | 27 | 0 | 1 | 17 | 143 |
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.) |