Table 323.30.

Master's degrees conferred 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	804,542	433,638	89,577	67,026	47,810	46,225	1,585	3,397	17,674	145,420	820,102	439,051	91,273	72,470	50,091	48,480	1,611	3,318	18,850	145,049
Agriculture and natural resources	6,843	4,615	245	392	221	214	7	34	185	1,151	6,967	4,651	249	420	235	225	10	39	185	1,188
Architecture and related services	7,883	3,630	332	700	443	435	8	25	169	2,584	7,317	3,236	338	639	430	421	9	18	179	2,477
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,717	765	165	222	129	121	8	69	64	303	1,673	715	172	255	81	80	1	67	74	309
Biological and biomedical sciences	16,282	8,504	1,198	1,287	2,162	2,146	16	43	495	2,593	17,180	8,865	1,336	1,410	2,352	2,334	18	33	514	2,670
Business	187,412	94,277	25,669	15,354	13,874	13,409	465	737	3,752	33,749	192,184	96,470	25,642	16,292	14,455	14,008	447	745	4,088	34,492
Communication, journalism, and related programs	10,119	5,116	1,349	939	380	370	10	38	304	1,993	10,243	5,039	1,438	1,028	336	325	11	32	314	2,056
Communications technologies	539	197	27	29	33	33	0	3	8	242	529	159	33	38	31	29	2	2	7	259
Computer and information sciences	46,553	8,664	2,345	1,275	3,587	3,538	49	78	531	30,073	46,468	9,411	2,601	1,492	3,484	3,441	43	53	609	28,818
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	145,624	101,795	15,955	15,098	4,562	4,291	271	709	3,069	4,436	146,367	101,246	15,958	16,223	4,870	4,573	297	687	3,238	4,145
Engineering	52,826	14,861	1,147	2,137	3,740	3,701	39	67	697	30,177	51,721	15,186	1,142	2,253	3,727	3,698	29	64	767	28,582
Engineering technologies and engineering-related      fields1	7,403	2,324	394	253	296	290	6	28	82	4,026	7,246	2,418	384	330	313	309	4	16	91	3,694
English language and literature/letters	8,244	6,107	484	699	276	270	6	57	270	351	8,300	6,020	581	709	257	253	4	47	310	376
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	3,295	2,025	498	318	129	116	13	15	82	228	3,308	2,018	488	326	133	127	6	14	88	241
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	3,271	1,547	81	532	96	96	0	9	95	911	3,261	1,540	75	569	131	127	4	6	68	872
Health professions and related programs	119,242	76,101	15,905	9,725	9,627	9,313	314	588	2,831	4,465	125,216	78,737	16,508	10,946	10,596	10,240	356	596	3,043	4,790
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	10,209	5,728	2,438	1,160	293	252	41	65	286	239	10,293	5,773	2,412	1,200	308	265	43	69	321	210
Legal professions and studies	8,674	2,083	699	494	326	320	6	61	92	4,919	9,177	2,208	753	574	315	306	9	81	139	5,107
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and      humanities	2,485	1,668	287	257	63	59	4	25	62	123	2,473	1,585	316	232	73	71	2	30	81	156
Library science	4,843	3,824	256	389	131	125	6	24	146	73	4,953	3,881	240	446	133	128	5	18	154	81
Mathematics and statistics	9,082	2,777	187	309	663	658	5	5	132	5,009	10,443	2,965	188	363	720	716	4	4	124	6,079
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	274	158	67	15	5	5	0	0	3	26	355	198	75	29	16	15	1	3	9	25
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	9,264	5,158	902	811	516	506	10	45	297	1,535	10,175	5,495	934	928	647	631	16	41	294	1,836
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	8,651	5,824	1,183	691	202	179	23	31	287	433	9,005	5,974	1,242	747	205	185	20	45	279	513
Philosophy and religious studies	1,704	1,148	116	144	80	79	1	4	40	172	1,692	1,144	130	141	77	74	3	6	44	150
Physical sciences and science technologies	7,136	3,855	186	394	380	374	6	14	159	2,148	7,196	3,879	197	443	414	406	8	11	193	2,059
Precision production	14	4	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	9	11	4	0	1	2	2	0	0	0	4
Psychology	27,539	16,974	3,788	3,461	1,199	1,108	91	150	897	1,070	27,841	16,707	3,907	3,777	1,286	1,206	80	145	928	1,091
Public administration and social services	45,361	24,289	8,755	6,203	1,892	1,781	111	285	1,295	2,642	46,294	24,602	9,023	6,621	1,842	1,738	104	289	1,366	2,551
Social sciences and history	20,004	10,942	1,430	1,713	892	872	20	74	546	4,407	19,884	10,588	1,456	1,820	844	826	18	60	566	4,550
Social sciences	16,569	8,205	1,312	1,447	827	808	19	63	446	4,269	16,612	8,012	1,313	1,544	786	771	15	50	484	4,423
History	3,435	2,737	118	266	65	64	1	11	100	138	3,272	2,576	143	276	58	55	3	10	82	127
Theology and religious vocations	13,694	8,774	2,237	691	708	685	23	54	243	987	13,828	8,624	2,215	766	808	778	30	45	271	1,099
Transportation and materials moving	839	547	98	43	35	33	2	4	43	69	815	507	71	72	35	33	2	6	32	92
Visual and performing arts	17,516	9,357	1,154	1,291	869	845	24	56	512	4,277	17,686	9,205	1,169	1,380	935	910	25	46	474	4,477
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.)