Table 321.40.

Associate's degrees conferred to males by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2016-17 and 2017-18

Field of study	2016-17										2017-18
	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	394,147	223,637	43,170	78,470	24,459	23,085	1,374	3,370	11,678	9,363	398,600	219,372	41,820	84,868	25,736	24,405	1,331	3,366	12,958	10,480
Agriculture and natural resources	5,040	4,470	81	297	31	24	7	62	77	22	4,834	4,211	88	340	46	37	9	55	72	22
Architecture and related services	332	134	18	140	15	15	0	0	11	14	358	139	17	157	27	27	0	5	5	8
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	181	50	27	57	19	16	3	17	11	0	230	61	33	75	17	15	2	25	18	1
Biological and biomedical sciences	1,749	694	170	538	230	227	3	16	55	46	2,072	830	167	624	294	281	13	30	74	53
Business	48,411	24,561	6,664	9,552	3,882	3,723	159	405	1,389	1,958	47,418	23,540	5,949	9,896	3,961	3,829	132	418	1,434	2,220
Communication, journalism, and related programs	3,202	1,398	405	969	243	235	8	22	116	49	3,269	1,403	320	1,113	228	214	14	10	150	45
Communications technologies	2,842	1,535	484	517	116	108	8	19	103	68	2,782	1,413	470	595	122	116	6	21	106	55
Computer and information sciences	24,824	15,105	2,918	3,445	1,862	1,767	95	198	714	582	25,236	14,874	2,921	3,662	2,041	1,966	75	190	748	800
Construction trades	4,956	3,497	468	464	229	194	35	112	168	18	4,968	3,686	335	501	178	159	19	95	151	22
Education	1,882	1,052	267	378	48	44	4	63	49	25	1,843	993	259	414	49	47	2	43	62	23
Engineering	4,995	2,726	363	992	476	470	6	41	130	267	5,334	2,862	397	1,042	526	512	14	30	154	323
Engineering technologies and engineering-related    fields1	23,275	16,462	2,197	2,722	844	781	63	196	527	327	22,899	16,077	1,964	2,924	892	835	57	207	540	295
English language and literature/letters	953	376	64	362	82	81	1	10	44	15	1,049	421	52	436	70	68	2	6	48	16
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	360	137	63	97	36	34	2	6	9	12	400	151	58	137	26	25	1	7	8	13
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	597	258	23	247	34	33	1	1	20	14	625	219	19	294	50	48	2	6	30	7
Health professions and related programs	29,789	17,201	3,672	5,076	2,510	2,348	162	247	838	245	29,483	16,768	3,535	5,320	2,512	2,342	170	247	840	261
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	21,012	12,007	2,100	5,408	728	649	79	170	524	75	19,997	11,022	1,941	5,517	718	659	59	170	527	102
Legal professions and studies	1,036	573	193	182	36	31	5	9	31	12	1,011	513	173	192	66	62	4	5	33	29
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	147,575	82,780	16,954	30,428	7,819	7,357	462	1,105	4,584	3,905	151,028	81,998	17,363	32,776	8,123	7,638	485	1,121	5,329	4,318
Library science	20	12	1	5	0	0	0	0	2	0	21	14	1	2	4	4	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	2,370	878	74	794	403	395	8	10	86	125	2,880	947	95	1,044	516	507	9	16	107	155
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	19,397	12,924	1,593	3,277	673	584	89	246	476	208	19,846	13,010	1,421	3,637	741	654	87	261	571	205
Military technologies and applied sciences	879	570	109	116	44	39	5	9	31	0	946	612	122	148	44	39	5	5	15	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	12,873	6,281	910	3,319	1,541	1,511	30	68	449	305	13,002	5,914	822	3,719	1,661	1,627	34	66	506	314
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	2,955	1,412	328	811	227	208	19	18	102	57	2,758	1,048	334	928	258	244	14	25	109	56
Philosophy and religious studies	574	400	44	82	20	20	0	1	16	11	640	436	38	117	16	15	1	2	12	19
Physical sciences and science technologies	5,458	2,640	439	1,284	537	528	9	42	175	341	5,927	2,646	470	1,562	671	659	12	49	209	320
Precision production	4,885	3,708	232	619	129	114	15	68	117	12	4,967	3,765	213	623	158	154	4	57	136	15
Psychology	2,673	826	196	1,195	275	263	12	31	118	32	2,921	866	203	1,370	285	283	2	22	130	45
Public administration and social services	1,052	465	330	184	22	19	3	20	25	6	1,003	428	299	187	30	21	9	21	31	7
Social sciences and history	7,981	3,022	611	2,930	809	765	44	78	341	190	8,849	3,250	642	3,317	864	800	64	89	407	280
Social sciences	6,880	2,476	582	2,507	756	714	42	75	300	184	7,516	2,660	602	2,762	794	731	63	73	352	273
History	1,101	546	29	423	53	51	2	3	41	6	1,333	590	40	555	70	69	1	16	55	7
Theology and religious vocations	919	725	116	40	15	14	1	7	10	6	786	580	114	48	10	8	2	1	12	21
Transportation and materials moving	1,338	853	103	180	86	73	13	6	43	67	1,394	912	87	188	73	65	8	13	40	81
Visual and performing arts	7,762	3,905	953	1,763	438	415	23	67	287	349	7,824	3,763	898	1,963	459	445	14	48	344	349
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 2017 and Fall 2018, Completions component. (This table was prepared October 2019.)