Table 322.50.

Bachelor's degrees conferred to females by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2017-18 and 2018-19

Field of study	2017-18										2018-19
	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	1,135,686	672,957	124,687	162,151	82,803	80,363	2,440	5,650	41,732	45,706	1,155,309	673,667	125,845	173,542	85,611	83,069	2,542	5,746	43,423	47,475
Agriculture and natural resources1	21,113	15,733	687	2,117	941	903	38	149	904	582	22,250	16,321	776	2,490	980	952	28	125	904	654
Architecture and related services	3,990	2,046	188	552	397	394	3	11	174	622	4,237	2,164	229	631	420	417	3	12	153	628
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	5,599	2,269	839	1,328	439	420	19	114	385	225	5,664	2,249	819	1,401	496	478	18	129	349	221
Biological and biomedical sciences	73,810	40,742	6,604	9,629	11,063	10,905	158	272	3,149	2,351	76,567	41,464	7,068	10,620	11,229	11,085	144	265	3,326	2,595
Business2	181,375	100,800	20,894	24,906	14,730	14,317	413	989	5,643	13,413	182,466	100,293	21,002	26,107	15,154	14,643	511	999	5,921	12,990
Communication, journalism, and related programs	60,479	37,364	6,705	8,474	2,683	2,572	111	203	2,539	2,511	59,824	36,408	6,707	8,756	2,680	2,577	103	180	2,560	2,533
Communications technologies	1,855	1,021	221	233	156	151	5	12	95	117	1,900	1,004	230	240	188	184	4	10	79	149
Computer and information sciences	15,894	6,792	1,809	1,502	3,206	3,179	27	65	659	1,861	18,314	7,372	2,027	1,856	3,945	3,900	45	54	789	2,271
Construction trades	21	6	0	13	0	0	0	0	0	2	24	8	0	6	0	0	0	1	0	9
Education	67,433	50,685	4,659	7,241	1,901	1,805	96	401	1,765	781	68,877	51,135	4,675	7,816	2,004	1,872	132	434	1,969	844
Engineering	27,108	15,082	1,276	2,995	3,850	3,817	33	88	1,123	2,694	28,838	16,105	1,342	3,226	4,062	4,027	35	85	1,250	2,768
Engineering technologies and engineering-related     fields3	2,367	1,421	258	288	150	144	6	21	63	166	2,528	1,487	296	317	164	160	4	11	101	152
English language and literature/letters	28,322	19,151	2,316	3,915	1,218	1,177	41	106	1,249	367	28,062	18,605	2,345	4,186	1,176	1,140	36	99	1,214	437
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	21,409	12,943	2,645	3,274	1,219	1,172	47	103	783	442	21,129	12,651	2,559	3,455	1,074	1,044	30	130	783	477
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	11,670	6,557	607	2,780	718	707	11	28	537	443	11,473	6,340	550	2,860	744	736	8	25	470	484
Health professions and related programs	206,875	136,030	23,786	23,483	14,794	14,187	607	971	5,824	1,987	211,922	136,926	24,546	25,734	15,405	14,815	590	1,037	6,120	2,154
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	27,639	12,491	6,469	6,530	707	608	99	183	985	274	28,191	12,148	6,487	7,219	758	669	89	208	1,036	335
Legal professions and studies	2,901	1,564	490	529	138	131	7	24	116	40	2,927	1,554	457	596	127	120	7	21	114	58
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	28,296	16,276	4,275	4,690	1,062	1,001	61	241	1,170	582	28,317	16,149	4,015	5,055	1,148	1,097	51	197	1,130	623
Library science	74	60	5	7	0	0	0	0	2	0	87	68	7	6	1	1	0	0	5	0
Mathematics and statistics	10,714	5,494	507	1,065	1,258	1,244	14	32	345	2,013	11,109	5,508	497	1,134	1,320	1,311	9	27	380	2,243
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	15	12	0	1	1	1	0	1	0	0	31	19	3	7	0	0	0	0	1	1
Military technologies and applied sciences	122	88	13	8	1	1	0	2	5	5	159	109	17	13	4	4	0	1	12	3
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	34,377	18,582	4,368	6,263	2,456	2,388	68	166	1,459	1,083	34,645	18,179	4,202	6,705	2,712	2,655	57	169	1,437	1,241
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	26,325	16,927	2,881	3,551	1,367	1,309	58	126	1,045	428	26,562	16,657	2,950	3,802	1,354	1,294	60	133	1,181	485
Philosophy and religious studies	3,668	2,305	307	474	254	247	7	13	172	143	3,816	2,294	345	540	254	244	10	19	210	154
Physical sciences and science technologies	12,604	7,450	952	1,355	1,433	1,404	29	69	564	781	12,650	7,489	896	1,453	1,359	1,343	16	45	592	816
Precision production	26	16	0	1	3	3	0	0	2	4	24	15	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	5
Psychology	91,857	50,099	11,513	17,763	5,821	5,653	168	425	3,750	2,486	92,223	49,653	11,578	18,340	5,763	5,571	192	452	3,854	2,583
Public administration and social services	29,510	15,467	6,379	5,169	964	872	92	245	951	335	29,083	15,077	6,081	5,410	939	865	74	226	1,029	321
Social sciences and history	80,339	41,371	8,955	14,932	6,029	5,877	152	358	3,579	5,115	82,032	41,603	8,862	16,005	6,203	6,027	176	394	3,686	5,279
Social sciences	70,827	34,675	8,329	13,634	5,705	5,567	138	320	3,190	4,974	72,694	35,071	8,303	14,664	5,860	5,691	169	344	3,324	5,128
History	9,512	6,696	626	1,298	324	310	14	38	389	141	9,338	6,532	559	1,341	343	336	7	50	362	151
Theology and religious vocations	2,920	2,042	356	250	107	105	2	9	99	57	2,954	2,157	302	238	84	68	16	15	89	69
Transportation and materials moving	642	395	47	72	32	30	2	5	19	72	616	381	47	58	36	33	3	5	36	53
Visual and performing arts	54,337	33,676	3,676	6,761	3,705	3,639	66	218	2,577	3,724	55,808	34,075	3,928	7,258	3,826	3,735	91	238	2,643	3,840
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 Includes Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences; and Natural resources and conservation.

2 Includes Business, management, marketing, and related support services; and Personal and culinary services.

3 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 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 study, 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). 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 2018 and Fall 2019, Completions component. (This table was prepared June 2020.)