Table 318.50.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by control of institution, level of degree, and field of study: 2019-20

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	1,018,233	2,038,431	843,449	190,178	902,776	1,362,775	392,752	95,533	51,694	578,911	383,917	86,188	63,763	96,745	66,780	8,457
Agriculture and natural resources	12,738	41,848	7,393	4,886	10,505	34,957	5,729	4,124	567	6,282	1,580	762	1,666	609	84	0
Architecture and related services	613	9,045	6,796	252	577	6,586	3,987	171	36	2,399	2,765	81	0	60	44	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group      studies	666	7,767	1,527	334	660	5,333	886	218	6	2,434	641	116	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,443	126,590	18,776	7,885	7,298	89,997	9,965	5,147	137	36,337	8,777	2,738	8	256	34	0
Business	112,120	387,851	197,422	3,443	91,770	244,378	80,116	1,190	7,707	114,893	96,589	1,321	12,643	28,580	20,717	932
Communication, journalism, and related programs	9,012	91,752	10,588	602	8,876	67,318	4,657	466	41	23,563	5,606	136	95	871	325	0
Communications technologies	4,097	4,424	539	1	3,499	1,486	48	1	54	1,880	370	0	544	1,058	121	0
Computer and information sciences and support      services	32,016	97,047	51,521	2,414	27,559	65,413	24,436	1,552	1,293	25,601	24,863	686	3,164	6,033	2,222	176
Construction trades	5,959	174	0	0	5,200	174	0	0	257	0	0	0	502	0	0	0
Education	16,177	85,057	146,975	13,051	14,924	58,480	74,390	6,278	562	23,654	62,226	5,699	691	2,923	10,359	1,074
Engineering	6,506	128,332	47,266	11,141	6,396	103,064	30,600	8,324	56	25,043	16,637	2,817	54	225	29	0
Engineering technologies and engineering-      related fields2	23,609	19,375	6,197	143	20,970	15,415	3,152	72	1,194	2,310	2,483	71	1,445	1,650	562	0
English language and literature/letters	3,425	38,036	7,862	1,285	3,362	26,112	4,550	997	16	11,348	3,173	288	47	576	139	0
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	9,261	23,245	3,280	281	8,833	19,153	2,116	245	133	3,632	1,077	29	295	460	87	7
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,905	16,305	2,930	1,162	2,902	12,067	2,034	781	3	4,213	896	381	0	25	0	0
Health professions and related programs	172,207	257,282	135,324	82,492	123,196	139,274	52,720	38,356	20,420	84,415	60,763	39,885	28,591	33,593	21,841	4,251
Homeland security, law enforcement, and      firefighting	34,892	57,044	10,606	263	30,271	37,165	4,592	136	1,226	13,271	4,435	19	3,395	6,608	1,579	108
Legal professions and studies	5,534	4,262	10,002	34,471	4,394	2,589	2,895	13,107	342	1,369	7,000	20,788	798	304	107	576
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,      and humanities	402,669	42,903	1,990	114	391,314	30,764	972	54	9,865	11,961	960	43	1,490	178	58	17
Library science	202	118	4,959	29	202	67	4,169	28	0	0	790	1	0	51	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	4,841	27,216	12,039	2,020	4,831	19,032	6,885	1,447	10	8,144	5,154	573	0	40	0	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	19,833	239	22	0	13,586	138	0	0	1,701	101	22	0	4,546	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	992	1,156	839	0	956	302	49	0	1	471	560	0	35	383	230	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	33,655	55,022	11,547	990	32,914	41,408	6,243	654	456	12,044	5,038	336	285	1,570	266	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and      kinesiology	5,668	53,749	9,108	349	5,164	40,060	5,837	294	156	12,903	3,128	55	348	786	143	0
Philosophy and religious studies	1,625	11,889	2,178	694	444	4,607	477	267	1,181	7,240	1,701	427	0	42	0	0
Physical sciences and science technologies	10,744	30,738	6,976	5,968	10,707	22,716	5,177	4,356	37	8,021	1,799	1,612	0	1	0	0
Precision production	4,748	39	11	0	4,392	3	0	0	118	36	11	0	238	0	0	0
Psychology	16,202	119,968	29,763	6,346	15,809	85,090	9,416	2,510	376	33,186	16,462	2,926	17	1,692	3,885	910
Public administration and social services	6,321	34,356	49,712	1,409	4,895	22,763	29,566	599	1,124	9,025	17,899	471	302	2,568	2,247	339
Social sciences and history	28,212	161,164	19,507	4,436	28,035	112,165	9,911	2,911	138	48,319	9,325	1,488	39	680	271	37
Social sciences	25,710	137,959	16,351	3,597	25,640	96,327	7,983	2,375	70	41,213	8,278	1,185	0	419	90	37
History	2,502	23,205	3,156	839	2,395	15,838	1,928	536	68	7,106	1,047	303	39	261	181	0
Theology and religious vocations	1,079	6,855	12,646	1,981	1	0	0	0	1,078	6,588	12,529	1,954	0	267	117	27
Transportation and materials moving	1,720	5,251	631	20	1,178	2,869	157	4	454	2,345	471	16	88	37	3	0
Visual and performing arts	20,542	92,332	16,517	1,716	17,156	51,830	7,020	1,244	949	35,883	8,187	469	2,437	4,619	1,310	3

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 Agricultural, animal, plant, veterinary science, and related fields and Natural resources and conservation; and "Business" includes Business, management, marketing, and related support services and Culinary, entertainment, and personal services.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2020, Completions component. (This table was prepared April 2022.)