Table 322.40.

Bachelor'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	836,021	521,359	70,568	99,344	65,405	63,436	1,969	3,731	27,089	48,525	844,960	516,621	70,316	104,926	68,196	66,285	1,911	3,506	28,868	52,527
Agriculture and natural resources	17,823	14,478	454	1,351	541	514	27	126	476	397	18,202	14,644	514	1,364	538	509	29	124	542	476
Architecture and related services	4,588	2,615	280	731	337	326	11	13	126	486	4,474	2,474	251	744	296	290	6	12	146	551
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	2,112	884	299	410	200	186	14	65	128	126	2,118	849	304	411	204	201	3	73	131	146
Biological and biomedical sciences	45,514	26,570	2,801	5,431	7,366	7,264	102	170	1,851	1,325	44,852	25,634	2,709	5,787	7,223	7,143	80	176	1,870	1,453
Business	201,724	127,958	16,597	22,195	13,796	13,335	461	834	5,333	15,011	204,839	128,547	16,527	23,887	13,851	13,409	442	759	5,955	15,313
Communication, journalism, and related programs	32,480	20,618	4,237	4,067	1,218	1,151	67	110	1,140	1,090	31,811	19,657	4,075	4,354	1,252	1,193	59	95	1,258	1,120
Communications technologies	2,879	1,631	398	416	149	134	15	16	122	147	2,376	1,331	354	340	139	132	7	10	76	126
Computer and information sciences	57,763	33,249	4,731	5,885	7,872	7,716	156	208	1,910	3,908	63,704	35,288	5,054	6,581	9,403	9,265	138	197	2,246	4,935
Construction trades	133	97	1	31	0	0	0	0	2	2	130	92	2	28	3	2	1	0	0	5
Education	16,067	12,087	1,514	1,370	419	386	33	109	397	171	15,167	11,087	1,470	1,403	449	416	33	100	445	213
Engineering	90,758	55,891	3,377	9,181	9,847	9,728	119	240	2,831	9,391	94,847	57,402	3,560	9,782	10,230	10,092	138	272	3,015	10,586
Engineering technologies and engineering-related      fields1	15,385	10,414	1,239	1,436	646	618	28	100	368	1,182	15,861	10,538	1,278	1,545	686	651	35	97	422	1,295
English language and literature/letters	12,243	8,475	959	1,576	525	505	20	68	453	187	11,680	7,948	894	1,629	500	482	18	50	471	188
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	3,024	1,660	454	437	221	213	8	19	121	112	2,947	1,594	441	405	253	242	11	13	123	118
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	5,560	3,433	222	1,149	329	320	9	18	240	169	5,288	3,228	206	1,072	345	336	9	12	235	190
Health professions and related programs	37,746	22,688	4,045	4,638	4,272	4,101	171	183	1,149	771	38,022	22,444	4,119	4,828	4,339	4,156	183	189	1,268	835
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	31,570	18,521	4,716	5,808	1,032	889	143	197	897	399	30,481	17,823	4,566	5,596	1,012	896	116	187	865	432
Legal professions and studies	1,355	802	173	227	76	73	3	15	44	18	1,340	779	180	215	82	78	4	6	54	24
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and      humanities	16,117	10,206	2,560	1,808	545	492	53	136	547	315	15,966	9,690	2,668	1,906	604	549	55	125	580	393
Library science	11	11	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	7	5	0	1	0	0	0	0	1	0
Mathematics and statistics	14,003	7,824	526	1,353	1,556	1,541	15	43	454	2,247	14,541	7,800	552	1,441	1,858	1,831	27	31	471	2,388
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	283	200	24	25	11	11	0	3	9	11	333	250	18	22	9	9	0	7	14	13
Military technologies and applied sciences	401	306	28	36	10	9	1	3	12	6	533	398	31	51	16	15	1	3	27	7
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	16,796	9,910	2,092	2,189	1,243	1,188	55	86	685	591	17,573	10,056	2,202	2,483	1,331	1,285	46	101	685	715
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	27,402	17,514	3,412	3,283	1,393	1,316	77	136	1,027	637	27,558	16,972	3,643	3,620	1,478	1,411	67	127	1,077	641
Philosophy and religious studies	6,010	4,107	443	708	298	289	9	28	249	177	5,935	3,973	422	753	336	323	13	27	248	176
Physical sciences and science technologies	18,863	12,873	754	1,864	1,557	1,545	12	66	689	1,060	18,938	12,557	736	2,064	1,571	1,543	28	74	758	1,178
Precision production	18	15	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	0	19	14	0	1	1	1	0	0	1	2
Psychology	25,520	14,135	3,036	4,414	1,985	1,920	65	147	1,034	769	24,578	13,153	2,869	4,671	1,964	1,897	67	138	1,009	774
Public administration and social services	6,238	3,423	1,235	967	269	249	20	54	184	106	6,127	3,317	1,138	1,012	278	256	22	37	234	111
Social sciences and history	79,565	48,840	6,124	10,735	5,391	5,229	162	322	2,877	5,276	79,628	48,271	5,923	11,125	5,537	5,363	174	258	2,892	5,622
Social sciences	65,261	38,065	5,434	9,011	4,956	4,817	139	238	2,445	5,112	65,758	37,910	5,299	9,325	5,124	4,968	156	193	2,475	5,432
History	14,304	10,775	690	1,724	435	412	23	84	432	164	13,870	10,361	624	1,800	413	395	18	65	417	190
Theology and religious vocations	6,632	5,441	415	337	146	139	7	29	95	169	6,601	5,469	357	324	156	140	16	23	117	155
Transportation and materials moving	4,134	2,947	236	293	171	155	16	22	165	300	4,282	2,960	247	369	221	207	14	27	128	330
Visual and performing arts	35,304	21,536	3,185	4,992	1,983	1,894	89	165	1,474	1,969	34,202	20,377	3,006	5,112	2,031	1,962	69	156	1,504	2,016
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.)