Table 321.50.

Associate's degrees conferred to females 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	611,540	327,420	86,710	130,689	31,355	29,548	1,807	5,895	17,925	11,546	612,887	316,884	83,697	140,594	33,216	31,435	1,781	5,919	20,013	12,564
Agriculture and natural resources	3,168	2,719	46	227	34	32	2	45	76	21	3,242	2,777	38	238	27	24	3	53	86	23
Architecture and related services	171	61	8	71	16	16	0	1	6	8	181	65	7	65	29	28	1	1	4	10
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	239	65	20	61	11	3	8	49	26	7	329	61	34	102	21	13	8	56	49	6
Biological and biomedical sciences	3,801	1,519	303	1,245	452	443	9	50	139	93	4,318	1,571	334	1,549	548	530	18	50	151	115
Business	73,841	37,388	12,288	13,638	5,084	4,816	268	800	2,041	2,602	70,364	34,518	11,237	13,547	5,229	4,976	253	825	2,184	2,824
Communication, journalism, and related programs	4,177	1,638	452	1,464	298	284	14	17	160	148	4,516	1,670	444	1,668	345	332	13	17	215	157
Communications technologies	1,465	850	178	263	53	53	0	12	51	58	1,415	794	157	289	55	54	1	10	56	54
Computer and information sciences	6,347	3,359	1,120	834	528	514	14	71	233	202	6,243	3,140	1,050	859	599	576	23	87	233	275
Construction trades	352	163	51	43	46	36	10	13	30	6	309	203	32	29	19	16	3	4	20	2
Education	14,721	8,202	2,177	3,204	352	315	37	302	348	136	14,339	7,684	2,039	3,471	347	319	28	292	346	160
Engineering	920	436	44	212	113	112	1	7	22	86	1,074	461	79	262	125	123	2	5	37	105
Engineering technologies and engineering-related    fields1	3,746	2,227	491	574	157	139	18	61	118	118	3,846	2,402	458	524	205	196	9	47	120	90
English language and literature/letters	1,917	778	136	748	137	133	4	2	80	36	2,084	776	138	909	138	133	5	9	89	25
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,511	3,630	1,436	2,694	375	358	17	87	178	111	8,454	3,455	1,293	2,898	405	385	20	92	185	126
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,766	768	83	744	58	55	3	9	64	40	1,982	860	87	870	58	57	1	8	70	29
Health professions and related programs	156,523	98,353	23,720	21,751	6,620	6,188	432	1,513	3,649	917	151,573	93,151	22,758	22,489	6,753	6,307	446	1,394	4,065	963
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	16,350	6,622	3,376	5,429	332	275	57	144	357	90	15,279	5,970	2,784	5,474	321	273	48	185	430	115
Legal professions and studies	5,868	3,450	879	1,168	124	110	14	55	144	48	5,226	2,863	785	1,098	209	195	14	42	149	80
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	239,171	125,977	32,538	55,134	10,865	10,198	667	2,040	7,693	4,924	246,898	126,182	32,595	60,311	11,542	10,872	670	2,107	8,735	5,426
Library science	138	97	9	20	7	7	0	2	3	0	135	93	6	23	6	6	0	5	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	1,084	343	34	355	226	220	6	5	35	86	1,255	365	24	412	282	281	1	7	60	105
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	1,424	893	235	192	27	24	3	22	46	9	1,449	846	238	241	46	38	8	17	52	9
Military technologies and applied sciences	214	132	35	25	6	4	2	2	14	0	280	144	44	63	14	13	1	4	11	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	17,907	7,680	1,506	5,556	2,102	2,056	46	85	647	331	18,066	6,945	1,384	6,228	2,312	2,257	55	107	733	357
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	2,082	830	161	795	167	158	9	20	86	23	2,337	880	155	924	204	194	10	28	105	41
Philosophy and religious studies	428	319	34	41	11	9	2	3	7	13	409	284	21	59	15	13	2	0	11	19
Physical sciences and science technologies	3,765	1,586	503	852	499	483	16	31	137	157	4,189	1,668	544	1,051	537	526	11	35	162	192
Precision production	366	262	24	44	11	11	0	13	12	0	366	248	25	51	11	10	1	16	13	2
Psychology	8,610	2,932	668	3,890	616	581	35	86	327	91	9,568	3,062	721	4,568	652	625	27	84	364	117
Public administration and social services	6,539	2,955	1,876	1,291	99	80	19	120	166	32	6,133	2,563	1,939	1,223	103	90	13	118	162	25
Social sciences and history	13,411	4,445	1,104	5,705	1,164	1,105	59	131	572	290	14,834	4,652	1,226	6,597	1,256	1,196	60	132	626	345
Social sciences	12,756	4,110	1,079	5,476	1,138	1,081	57	124	541	288	14,029	4,263	1,205	6,288	1,223	1,166	57	125	585	340
History	655	335	25	229	26	24	2	7	31	2	805	389	21	309	33	30	3	7	41	5
Theology and religious vocations	627	346	172	58	14	13	1	9	19	9	649	396	157	48	10	7	3	7	22	9
Transportation and materials moving	209	95	13	50	21	18	3	4	8	18	216	102	23	48	13	13	0	1	9	20
Visual and performing arts	11,682	6,300	990	2,311	730	699	31	84	431	836	11,329	6,033	841	2,406	780	757	23	74	457	738
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 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.)