Table 322.30.

Bachelor's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2018-19 and 2019-20

Field of study	2018-19										2019-20
	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	2,013,086	1,190,080	196,654	285,024	156,099	151,619	4,480	9,167	73,665	102,397	2,038,431	1,183,959	197,444	302,615	161,444	157,062	4,382	9,151	77,619	106,199
Agriculture and natural resources1	41,373	31,559	1,298	4,089	1,522	1,472	50	247	1,525	1,133	41,848	31,372	1,396	4,448	1,581	1,525	56	269	1,558	1,224
Architecture and related services	8,806	4,542	504	1,424	760	750	10	29	305	1,242	9,045	4,823	482	1,506	739	725	14	19	326	1,150
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	7,733	3,021	1,153	1,826	717	690	27	178	494	344	7,767	2,883	1,208	2,010	653	617	36	130	516	367
Biological and biomedical sciences	121,233	66,572	9,850	16,642	18,486	18,248	238	430	5,175	4,078	126,590	68,857	10,466	18,094	18,845	18,608	237	392	5,591	4,345
Business2	390,490	229,814	37,364	51,547	29,220	28,221	999	1,767	12,273	28,505	387,851	226,504	36,574	53,393	29,080	28,186	894	1,721	12,600	27,979
Communication, journalism, and related programs	92,528	56,560	10,937	13,255	3,984	3,822	162	283	3,844	3,665	91,752	54,972	10,682	13,847	4,101	3,929	172	275	3,965	3,910
Communications technologies	4,444	2,413	665	593	308	293	15	18	181	266	4,424	2,285	639	632	347	339	8	15	204	302
Computer and information sciences and support     services	88,638	45,120	7,720	9,379	14,766	14,565	201	258	3,395	8,000	97,047	47,596	8,120	10,593	17,083	16,884	199	269	3,765	9,621
Education	83,952	62,194	6,013	9,279	2,448	2,288	160	528	2,429	1,061	85,057	62,324	6,017	10,131	2,425	2,277	148	520	2,532	1,108
Engineering	126,692	74,166	5,041	14,142	14,820	14,656	164	322	4,518	13,683	128,332	73,854	5,274	15,239	15,002	14,830	172	303	4,742	13,918
Engineering technologies3	19,620	12,780	1,619	2,128	934	899	35	87	577	1,495	19,788	12,675	1,570	2,383	995	966	29	125	626	1,414
English language and literature/letters	39,344	26,259	3,201	5,817	1,635	1,582	53	151	1,665	616	38,036	24,983	2,973	5,842	1,745	1,687	58	165	1,756	572
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	23,956	14,101	2,967	3,910	1,298	1,257	41	147	927	606	23,245	13,549	2,880	3,940	1,282	1,240	42	119	870	605
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	16,605	9,420	759	3,883	1,066	1,051	15	46	727	704	16,305	9,242	674	3,890	1,002	983	19	47	736	714
Health professions and related programs	250,650	159,459	28,701	31,038	19,809	19,035	774	1,236	7,454	2,953	257,282	159,911	30,055	34,110	20,587	19,786	801	1,361	8,108	3,150
Homeland security, law enforcement, and     firefighting	57,333	28,713	10,830	12,962	1,739	1,549	190	399	1,885	805	57,044	28,545	10,111	13,527	1,675	1,500	175	352	1,993	841
Legal professions and studies	4,235	2,280	656	819	192	181	11	29	164	95	4,262	2,242	620	870	216	203	13	34	201	79
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	44,222	25,848	6,530	7,046	1,740	1,650	90	312	1,728	1,018	42,903	24,846	6,217	7,037	1,736	1,631	105	362	1,720	985
Library science	99	79	7	7	1	1	0	0	5	0	118	85	11	15	3	2	1	0	4	0
Mathematics and statistics	26,155	13,440	1,021	2,677	3,163	3,141	22	54	874	4,926	27,216	13,300	1,084	2,818	3,401	3,362	39	48	931	5,634
Military technologies and applied sciences	767	549	73	79	15	13	2	4	32	15	1,156	799	101	121	43	30	13	8	63	21
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	53,303	28,526	6,303	9,498	4,336	4,219	117	270	2,157	2,213	55,022	28,553	6,546	10,192	4,657	4,519	138	223	2,463	2,388
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and     kinesiology	53,540	32,823	6,646	7,592	2,798	2,667	131	260	2,279	1,142	53,749	31,959	6,870	8,243	2,906	2,774	132	288	2,262	1,221
Philosophy and religious studies	11,981	8,443	732	1,292	585	549	36	46	458	425	11,889	8,342	711	1,308	605	580	25	33	449	441
Physical sciences and science technologies	31,155	19,379	1,651	3,643	2,885	2,837	48	125	1,307	2,165	30,738	18,693	1,616	3,850	2,904	2,872	32	134	1,345	2,196
Precision production	47	28	1	3	5	5	0	1	1	8	39	18	1	8	3	3	0	0	3	6
Psychology	116,550	62,303	14,466	23,072	7,788	7,529	259	579	4,890	3,452	119,968	62,837	14,561	24,428	8,448	8,190	258	620	5,281	3,793
Public administration and social services	35,104	18,241	7,263	6,469	1,204	1,106	98	264	1,223	440	34,356	17,355	7,012	6,616	1,202	1,113	89	307	1,358	506
Social sciences and history	160,678	88,646	14,672	27,425	11,562	11,241	321	652	6,690	11,031	161,164	87,242	14,552	29,019	11,713	11,413	300	612	7,002	11,024
Social sciences	137,504	71,887	13,490	24,225	10,858	10,560	298	537	5,840	10,667	137,959	70,739	13,371	25,710	10,910	10,629	281	486	6,084	10,659
History	23,174	16,759	1,182	3,200	704	681	23	115	850	364	23,205	16,503	1,181	3,309	803	784	19	126	918	365
Theology and religious vocations	7,061	5,199	653	558	239	209	30	38	207	167	6,855	4,941	608	602	227	204	23	57	248	172
Transportation and materials moving	5,051	3,436	317	507	221	203	18	24	166	380	5,251	3,591	322	572	232	210	22	23	178	333
Visual and performing arts	89,741	54,167	7,041	12,423	5,853	5,690	163	383	4,110	5,764	92,332	54,781	7,491	13,331	6,006	5,874	132	320	4,223	6,180
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 Agricultural, animal, plant, veterinary science, and related fields; and Natural resources and conservation.

2 Includes Business, management, marketing, and related support services; and Culinary, entertainment, and personal services.

3 Includes Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields; Construction trades; and Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians.

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. Data in this table are based on the 2020 Classification of Instructional Programs. 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 2019 and Fall 2020, Completions component. (This table was prepared August 2021.)