Table 324.35.

Doctor'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	98,345	57,682	9,279	7,387	11,722	11,521	201	398	2,628	9,249	101,799	58,748	10,042	8,120	12,064	11,898	166	414	2,952	9,459
Agriculture and natural resources1	698	354	22	32	30	28	2	2	9	249	776	378	25	27	35	35	0	3	13	295
Architecture and related services	114	36	9	8	15	14	1	1	6	39	140	53	8	5	8	8	0	0	3	63
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	219	84	36	24	20	19	1	10	10	35	237	91	38	28	18	16	2	3	9	50
Biological and biomedical sciences	4,390	2,302	208	277	395	390	5	11	104	1,093	4,149	2,122	162	286	427	419	8	14	120	1,018
Business2	1,412	541	397	58	93	89	4	6	39	278	1,650	656	450	92	96	94	2	8	37	311
Communication, journalism, and related programs	414	228	23	8	20	19	1	2	10	123	333	162	27	13	21	21	0	1	6	103
Communications technologies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences	437	121	19	15	39	39	0	1	8	234	508	143	26	10	49	48	1	1	8	271
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	8,668	5,055	1,797	763	324	303	21	51	194	484	8,885	5,015	1,948	829	343	330	13	56	198	496
Engineering	2,637	824	62	79	241	241	0	2	35	1,394	2,725	808	79	92	234	234	0	4	47	1,461
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields3	61	22	11	2	6	6	0	0	0	20	60	24	9	1	5	5	0	0	1	20
English language and literature/letters	783	560	43	50	49	49	0	2	17	62	790	561	32	54	33	32	1	2	29	79
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	211	105	21	13	12	12	0	0	6	54	209	100	22	14	10	10	0	1	6	56
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	706	326	9	81	33	33	0	2	12	243	726	334	11	68	36	36	0	1	15	261
Health professions and related programs	47,737	29,671	3,631	3,067	8,241	8,128	113	164	1,321	1,642	49,953	30,651	4,123	3,319	8,594	8,497	97	173	1,440	1,653
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	92	56	10	12	4	3	1	0	2	8	126	74	32	8	2	2	0	0	7	3
Legal professions and studies	17,076	10,312	1,955	2,078	1,363	1,327	36	91	557	720	17,735	10,692	1,915	2,362	1,309	1,280	29	103	625	729
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	58	42	1	2	3	3	0	1	2	7	74	50	15	2	2	2	0	1	2	2
Library science	38	19	3	2	6	6	0	0	1	7	26	17	1	1	1	1	0	0	0	6
Mathematics and statistics	562	172	14	16	38	38	0	0	11	311	593	176	14	20	41	41	0	0	12	330
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	506	276	46	33	36	35	1	3	6	106	523	294	58	24	35	34	1	3	18	91
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	141	84	17	5	4	4	0	1	3	27	162	107	14	3	3	3	0	2	4	29
Philosophy and religious studies	236	154	21	8	9	9	0	2	2	40	242	145	13	12	16	16	0	1	9	46
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,107	1,003	53	88	149	145	4	2	44	768	2,129	956	48	97	149	149	0	1	53	825
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	4,626	3,040	416	434	310	305	5	24	129	273	4,618	2,879	471	475	323	315	8	22	165	283
Public administration and social services	758	386	149	51	34	32	2	4	23	111	880	451	208	72	33	31	2	8	17	91
Social sciences and history	2,201	1,168	129	128	140	137	3	11	53	572	2,082	1,078	107	144	124	123	1	4	69	556
Social sciences	1,782	882	99	96	130	127	3	10	48	517	1,713	824	88	113	115	114	1	2	58	513
History	419	286	30	32	10	10	0	1	5	55	369	254	19	31	9	9	0	2	11	43
Theology and religious vocations	547	277	155	14	29	29	0	2	12	58	532	256	166	24	27	26	1	1	8	50
Transportation and materials moving	3	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Visual and performing arts	907	464	22	39	78	77	1	3	12	289	934	473	20	38	90	90	0	1	31	281
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.)