Table 322.50.

Bachelor'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	1,120,093	674,618	125,770	152,859	78,688	76,105	2,583	5,858	39,443	42,857	1,135,684	672,998	124,698	162,139	82,803	80,363	2,440	5,651	41,685	45,710
Agriculture and natural resources	19,911	15,108	726	1,845	842	803	39	124	759	507	21,112	15,733	687	2,117	941	903	38	149	903	582
Architecture and related services	3,991	2,016	186	625	407	395	12	10	145	602	3,990	2,046	188	552	397	394	3	11	174	622
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	5,608	2,285	846	1,291	500	476	24	98	391	197	5,599	2,269	839	1,328	439	420	19	114	385	225
Biological and biomedical sciences	71,254	40,158	6,534	8,707	10,557	10,427	130	285	2,837	2,176	73,811	40,743	6,604	9,629	11,063	10,905	158	272	3,149	2,351
Business	179,385	100,634	21,609	23,412	14,241	13,755	486	958	5,246	13,285	181,362	100,797	20,898	24,917	14,728	14,315	413	989	5,618	13,415
Communication, journalism, and related programs	61,314	38,094	6,918	8,435	2,588	2,470	118	187	2,638	2,454	60,479	37,367	6,706	8,469	2,684	2,573	111	203	2,539	2,511
Communications technologies	1,736	955	228	231	129	125	4	8	78	107	1,855	1,021	221	233	156	151	5	12	95	117
Computer and information sciences	13,653	6,236	1,660	1,349	2,554	2,523	31	60	560	1,234	15,894	6,792	1,808	1,503	3,206	3,179	27	65	659	1,861
Construction trades	20	6	0	12	1	1	0	0	0	1	21	6	0	13	0	0	0	0	0	2
Education	69,063	52,607	4,775	6,910	1,854	1,749	105	443	1,746	728	67,454	50,707	4,660	7,239	1,901	1,805	96	401	1,765	781
Engineering	24,913	14,115	1,128	2,694	3,521	3,479	42	61	989	2,405	27,109	15,082	1,276	2,995	3,850	3,817	33	88	1,123	2,695
Engineering technologies and engineering-related      fields1	2,282	1,352	283	273	132	131	1	19	72	151	2,367	1,421	258	288	150	144	6	21	63	166
English language and literature/letters	29,071	19,946	2,301	3,777	1,278	1,235	43	117	1,265	387	28,322	19,157	2,316	3,909	1,218	1,177	41	106	1,249	367
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	22,056	13,646	2,767	3,183	1,167	1,125	42	114	770	409	21,402	12,942	2,647	3,271	1,219	1,172	47	103	778	442
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	12,083	6,841	637	2,925	742	731	11	30	541	367	11,670	6,560	607	2,777	718	707	11	28	537	443
Health professions and related programs	200,233	132,954	23,314	21,740	14,017	13,431	586	1,016	5,308	1,884	206,887	136,063	23,789	23,451	14,797	14,190	607	973	5,827	1,987
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	27,983	12,765	6,823	6,353	664	576	88	243	931	204	27,633	12,493	6,470	6,526	707	608	99	183	980	274
Legal professions and studies	2,917	1,585	486	552	125	121	4	24	111	34	2,899	1,562	489	531	138	131	7	24	115	40
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and      humanities	27,986	16,740	4,124	4,323	1,060	971	89	224	1,003	512	28,296	16,252	4,275	4,716	1,061	1,000	61	240	1,170	582
Library science	88	69	7	4	1	0	1	2	5	0	74	60	5	7	0	0	0	0	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	10,072	5,366	496	968	1,064	1,057	7	16	318	1,844	10,715	5,494	507	1,065	1,258	1,244	14	32	345	2,014
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	16	13	1	0	0	0	0	1	0	1	15	12	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	68	45	11	4	4	3	1	1	2	1	122	88	13	8	1	1	0	2	5	5
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	32,835	18,250	4,299	5,755	2,161	2,093	68	183	1,305	882	34,336	18,571	4,368	6,261	2,446	2,378	68	166	1,456	1,068
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	25,890	16,971	2,807	3,299	1,164	1,118	46	187	1,045	417	26,325	16,927	2,881	3,551	1,367	1,309	58	126	1,045	428
Philosophy and religious studies	3,701	2,347	348	416	273	265	8	12	172	133	3,668	2,305	307	474	254	247	7	13	172	143
Physical sciences and science technologies	12,409	7,576	899	1,255	1,377	1,356	21	60	511	731	12,604	7,450	952	1,355	1,433	1,404	29	69	564	781
Precision production	14	9	0	1	3	3	0	0	0	1	26	16	0	1	3	3	0	0	2	4
Psychology	91,339	51,048	11,773	16,373	5,829	5,600	229	486	3,551	2,279	91,854	50,100	11,513	17,764	5,818	5,650	168	425	3,748	2,486
Public administration and social services	29,223	15,592	6,427	4,857	837	754	83	233	956	321	29,502	15,466	6,378	5,173	965	873	92	245	940	335
Social sciences and history	79,532	41,542	9,082	14,329	5,786	5,632	154	406	3,495	4,892	80,339	41,370	8,957	14,931	6,029	5,877	152	358	3,579	5,115
Social sciences	69,782	34,529	8,468	13,108	5,464	5,322	142	353	3,092	4,768	70,827	34,674	8,331	13,633	5,705	5,567	138	320	3,190	4,974
History	9,750	7,013	614	1,221	322	310	12	53	403	124	9,512	6,696	626	1,298	324	310	14	38	389	141
Theology and religious vocations	2,886	2,047	391	224	94	84	10	16	66	48	2,920	2,042	356	250	107	105	2	9	99	57
Transportation and materials moving	574	357	44	62	34	32	2	3	36	38	642	395	47	72	32	30	2	5	19	72
Visual and performing arts	55,987	35,343	3,840	6,675	3,682	3,584	98	231	2,591	3,625	54,380	33,689	3,676	6,762	3,716	3,650	66	218	2,580	3,739
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.)