Table 324.35.

Doctor'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	93,894	56,541	8,813	6,659	10,982	10,792	190	440	2,064	8,395	96,706	57,442	9,276	7,072	11,438	11,234	204	439	2,386	8,653
Agriculture and natural resources	699	335	26	31	39	39	0	3	10	255	756	360	28	30	28	28	0	2	15	293
Architecture and related services	117	44	10	4	13	11	2	0	8	38	145	54	3	8	21	19	2	0	6	53
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	193	90	25	25	9	8	1	6	9	29	229	94	45	28	14	14	0	3	7	38
Biological and biomedical sciences	4,206	2,177	174	270	405	398	7	13	78	1,089	4,235	2,158	194	258	422	417	5	8	111	1,084
Business	1,392	610	344	62	90	83	7	7	23	256	1,475	567	400	99	100	95	5	7	23	279
Communication, journalism, and related programs	373	203	18	19	18	18	0	0	5	110	407	219	39	16	33	33	0	2	7	91
Communications technologies	2	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	398	105	32	9	29	29	0	1	5	217	444	144	31	12	30	29	1	1	3	223
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	8,145	4,878	1,694	628	338	317	21	48	116	443	8,674	5,043	1,951	685	338	309	29	66	151	440
Engineering	2,396	710	75	78	213	213	0	3	24	1,293	2,448	712	63	84	223	222	1	3	35	1,328
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	42	18	1	1	6	6	0	0	0	16	48	18	5	3	5	5	0	0	0	17
English language and literature/letters	880	684	43	38	32	30	2	4	12	67	828	595	42	56	37	35	2	7	22	69
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	279	138	39	17	16	15	1	0	8	61	240	134	23	16	16	16	0	1	3	47
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	764	380	10	74	33	33	0	2	16	249	689	354	11	79	36	36	0	1	7	201
Health professions and related programs	43,300	27,640	3,243	2,440	7,448	7,362	86	157	1,005	1,367	45,848	28,945	3,416	2,805	7,906	7,802	104	166	1,163	1,447
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	97	62	14	8	1	1	0	0	1	11	88	50	15	13	2	2	0	0	0	8
Legal professions and studies	17,957	11,130	1,936	2,144	1,500	1,457	43	145	500	602	17,420	10,682	1,884	2,045	1,449	1,416	33	124	546	690
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	61	45	2	5	2	2	0	0	2	5	63	51	2	4	2	2	0	0	3	1
Library science	32	16	3	1	5	5	0	0	1	6	29	13	3	3	4	3	1	0	0	6
Mathematics and statistics	531	179	12	10	38	38	0	1	14	277	522	180	4	11	51	51	0	0	7	269
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	487	281	47	26	22	21	1	2	7	102	496	270	56	24	31	31	0	4	14	97
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	144	90	12	11	2	2	0	0	6	23	160	104	14	5	4	4	0	1	4	28
Philosophy and religious studies	282	181	21	19	15	15	0	0	6	40	234	148	19	8	12	12	0	0	8	39
Physical sciences and science technologies	1,955	914	58	73	122	122	0	4	45	739	1,955	927	46	86	124	123	1	9	32	731
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	4,882	3,265	497	442	321	303	18	24	103	230	5,011	3,313	502	466	304	290	14	18	135	273
Public administration and social services	712	373	157	41	58	58	0	0	10	73	735	370	167	50	38	38	0	4	21	85
Social sciences and history	2,112	1,203	118	132	94	94	0	16	30	519	2,134	1,191	130	134	111	108	3	5	43	520
Social sciences	1,664	892	86	100	81	81	0	11	20	474	1,742	917	111	100	99	96	3	4	35	476
History	448	311	32	32	13	13	0	5	10	45	392	274	19	34	12	12	0	1	8	44
Theology and religious vocations	497	237	165	16	27	26	1	3	3	46	430	194	160	9	31	29	2	0	1	35
Transportation and materials moving	3	2	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Visual and performing arts	956	551	36	35	85	85	0	1	17	231	962	551	23	35	66	65	1	7	19	261
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 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.)