Table 318.50.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by control of institution, level of degree, and field of study: 2018-19

Field of study	All institutions				Public institutions				Private nonprofit institutions				Private for-profit institutions
	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bachelor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bache- lor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de-grees1	Asso- ciate's degrees	Bache- lor's degrees	Master's degrees	Doctor's de- grees1
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
All fields, total	1,036,662	2,012,854	833,706	187,568	915,011	1,340,147	386,166	94,563	54,432	575,586	380,885	85,706	67,219	97,121	66,655	7,299
Agriculture and natural resources	8,196	40,458	7,288	1,613	7,890	33,937	5,528	1,510	292	5,901	1,651	103	14	620	109	0
Architecture and related services	585	8,806	7,311	255	542	6,321	4,338	190	41	2,374	2,901	65	2	111	72	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	713	7,724	1,590	370	707	5,335	955	234	6	2,389	635	136	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,299	121,191	18,090	7,978	7,190	85,150	9,805	5,298	101	35,718	8,257	2,680	8	323	28	0
Business	116,798	390,564	197,089	3,636	94,838	243,714	77,015	1,237	8,815	116,939	98,669	1,415	13,145	29,911	21,405	984
Communication, journalism, and related programs	8,549	92,528	10,463	583	8,408	67,596	4,463	457	73	24,020	5,784	126	68	912	216	0
Communications technologies	4,256	4,444	535	0	3,578	1,579	35	0	66	1,810	347	0	612	1,055	153	0
Computer and information sciences	31,999	88,633	45,667	2,224	27,129	58,839	22,855	1,439	1,436	23,075	20,361	667	3,434	6,719	2,451	118
Construction trades	5,628	208	0	0	4,903	204	0	0	233	4	0	0	492	0	0	0
Education	16,210	83,946	146,432	13,020	14,942	57,584	72,675	6,168	595	23,601	63,203	5,729	673	2,761	10,554	1,123
Engineering	6,367	126,687	49,690	11,135	6,265	101,406	33,164	8,186	29	25,094	16,500	2,949	73	187	26	0
Engineering technologies and engineering-     related fields2	25,977	19,089	6,225	215	23,021	15,232	3,134	86	1,327	2,365	2,521	129	1,629	1,492	570	0
English language and literature/letters	3,340	39,335	8,217	1,274	3,265	27,215	4,564	955	9	11,506	3,532	319	66	614	121	0
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	9,369	23,962	3,287	285	8,969	19,545	2,118	241	153	3,919	1,021	40	247	498	148	4
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,798	16,592	3,080	1,211	2,787	12,192	2,026	782	11	4,380	1,054	429	0	20	0	0
Health professions and related programs	182,565	251,355	131,569	82,895	128,790	138,972	50,882	40,136	21,434	80,886	60,150	39,465	32,341	31,497	20,537	3,294
Homeland security, law enforcement, and     firefighting	35,201	57,339	10,303	250	30,276	36,739	4,439	140	1,349	13,516	4,179	28	3,576	7,084	1,685	82
Legal professions and studies	5,651	4,242	9,486	34,387	4,489	2,652	2,593	12,863	350	1,304	6,810	21,018	812	286	83	506
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,     and humanities	410,629	44,222	2,109	109	399,235	31,588	1,064	43	9,872	12,469	997	53	1,522	165	48	13
Library science	195	99	5,164	39	195	61	4,372	34	0	1	792	5	0	37	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	4,631	26,146	11,380	2,003	4,621	18,140	6,762	1,464	10	7,992	4,618	539	0	14	0	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	21,647	323	7	0	14,764	181	0	0	2,096	142	7	0	4,787	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	1,202	767	572	0	1,156	239	65	0	0	422	488	0	46	106	19	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	33,383	53,298	10,721	900	32,584	38,866	5,633	591	445	12,029	4,668	309	354	2,403	420	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	5,634	53,546	8,963	337	5,167	39,760	5,776	274	173	13,000	3,037	59	294	786	150	4
Philosophy and religious studies	1,144	9,615	1,691	703	421	4,520	503	293	723	5,039	1,188	410	0	56	0	0
Physical sciences and science technologies	10,557	31,148	7,121	6,298	10,479	22,755	5,319	4,540	78	8,393	1,802	1,758	0	0	0	0
Precision production	5,385	47	12	0	4,930	1	0	0	149	46	12	0	306	0	0	0
Psychology	14,486	116,536	29,135	6,214	14,095	82,144	9,189	2,489	374	32,962	16,061	2,890	17	1,430	3,885	835
Public administration and social services	6,822	35,177	48,890	1,287	5,419	23,441	29,245	581	1,132	9,406	17,687	421	271	2,330	1,958	285
Social sciences and history	25,972	160,628	20,301	4,544	25,839	111,371	10,239	2,994	105	48,470	9,610	1,527	28	787	452	23
Social sciences	23,559	137,459	16,961	3,704	23,505	95,599	8,190	2,471	53	41,315	8,536	1,210	1	545	235	23
History	2,413	23,169	3,340	840	2,334	15,772	2,049	523	52	7,155	1,074	317	27	242	217	0
Theology and religious vocations	1,404	9,418	13,431	1,946	0	0	0	0	1,404	9,154	13,274	1,919	0	264	157	27
Transportation and materials moving	1,926	5,051	774	12	1,291	2,751	136	3	578	2,278	638	9	57	22	0	0
Visual and performing arts	20,144	89,730	17,113	1,845	16,826	50,117	7,274	1,335	973	34,982	8,431	509	2,345	4,631	1,408	1

1 Includes Ph.D., Ed.D., and comparable degrees at the doctoral level, as well as such degrees as M.D., D.D.S., and law degrees that were classified as first-professional degrees prior to 2010-11.

2 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians," which are listed separately.

NOTE: Data in this table represent the 50 states and the District of Columbia. Data are for degree-granting postsecondary institutions, which are institutions that grant associate's or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. 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.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2019, Completions component. (This table was prepared June 2021.)