Table 322.50.

Bachelor's degrees conferred to females 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	1,155,479	673,712	125,853	173,567	85,421	82,878	2,543	5,749	43,430	47,747	1,177,168	674,928	127,120	185,404	88,549	86,078	2,471	5,809	45,999	49,359
Agriculture and natural resources1	23,071	16,975	806	2,579	1,005	977	28	130	919	657	23,960	17,377	882	2,827	1,017	977	40	152	998	707
Architecture and related services	4,237	2,165	229	631	413	410	3	12	153	634	4,350	2,288	230	666	395	391	4	8	164	599
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	5,668	2,249	819	1,404	493	475	18	129	349	225	5,695	2,133	866	1,524	475	448	27	88	380	229
Biological and biomedical sciences	76,591	41,469	7,069	10,624	11,234	11,090	144	265	3,326	2,604	81,629	43,814	7,610	11,815	11,645	11,489	156	267	3,696	2,782
Business2	182,446	100,282	20,997	26,104	15,079	14,568	511	999	5,922	13,063	180,343	98,106	20,581	26,900	14,903	14,452	451	957	6,148	12,748
Communication, journalism, and related programs	59,824	36,407	6,708	8,755	2,647	2,544	103	180	2,561	2,566	58,860	35,364	6,440	9,023	2,681	2,586	95	171	2,571	2,610
Communications technologies	1,900	1,004	230	240	188	184	4	10	79	149	1,917	983	240	247	182	180	2	4	98	163
Computer and information sciences and support     services	18,316	7,372	2,027	1,856	3,943	3,898	45	54	789	2,275	20,716	8,160	2,149	2,064	4,668	4,629	39	70	893	2,712
Education	68,882	51,140	4,675	7,816	1,993	1,861	132	434	1,969	855	69,868	51,380	4,630	8,516	1,974	1,863	111	421	2,061	886
Engineering	28,839	16,106	1,341	3,225	4,056	4,021	35	85	1,250	2,776	30,600	16,762	1,546	3,654	4,362	4,320	42	62	1,314	2,900
Engineering technologies3	2,583	1,514	298	330	164	160	4	12	102	163	2,775	1,595	300	365	204	201	3	20	121	170
English language and literature/letters	28,068	18,609	2,345	4,188	1,175	1,139	36	99	1,214	438	27,435	18,009	2,189	4,204	1,226	1,186	40	118	1,285	404
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	21,124	12,645	2,559	3,456	1,070	1,040	30	130	783	481	20,472	12,056	2,467	3,539	1,062	1,030	32	107	745	496
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	11,484	6,345	550	2,862	746	738	8	25	470	486	11,265	6,199	500	2,850	698	684	14	27	495	496
Health professions and related programs	211,268	136,357	24,532	25,655	15,409	14,818	591	1,033	6,111	2,171	217,621	137,470	25,683	28,256	16,012	15,412	600	1,173	6,740	2,287
Homeland security, law enforcement, and     firefighting	28,186	12,144	6,487	7,218	757	668	89	208	1,036	336	28,808	12,671	6,137	7,661	712	643	69	187	1,073	367
Legal professions and studies	2,920	1,548	456	594	127	120	7	21	116	58	2,969	1,511	469	621	158	148	10	24	138	48
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	28,317	16,149	4,015	5,054	1,148	1,097	51	197	1,130	624	27,674	15,763	3,749	5,091	1,125	1,068	57	249	1,127	570
Library science	87	68	7	6	1	1	0	0	5	0	105	76	8	15	2	1	1	0	4	0
Mathematics and statistics	11,111	5,508	497	1,133	1,295	1,286	9	27	380	2,271	11,437	5,401	513	1,196	1,407	1,393	14	22	379	2,519
Military technologies and applied sciences	159	109	17	13	4	4	0	1	12	3	229	156	26	19	9	6	3	3	13	3
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	34,648	18,180	4,202	6,705	2,712	2,655	57	169	1,437	1,243	36,029	18,433	4,307	7,242	2,965	2,888	77	149	1,575	1,358
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and     kinesiology	26,562	16,655	2,950	3,802	1,354	1,294	60	133	1,181	487	26,494	16,042	3,114	4,202	1,352	1,297	55	147	1,154	483
Philosophy and religious studies	3,864	2,340	345	540	254	244	10	19	210	156	3,915	2,337	324	579	280	266	14	12	220	163
Physical sciences and science technologies	12,652	7,490	896	1,453	1,358	1,342	16	45	593	817	13,270	7,696	921	1,662	1,426	1,408	18	69	609	887
Precision production	24	15	0	2	2	2	0	0	0	5	23	7	1	4	3	3	0	0	2	6
Psychology	92,233	49,651	11,578	18,343	5,749	5,557	192	454	3,858	2,600	95,156	50,067	11,731	19,489	6,381	6,189	192	492	4,106	2,890
Public administration and social services	29,015	15,033	6,074	5,406	937	863	74	226	1,019	320	28,486	14,280	5,998	5,559	924	860	64	249	1,113	363
Social sciences and history	82,061	41,610	8,867	16,017	6,163	5,987	176	394	3,687	5,323	83,283	41,256	9,059	17,211	6,195	6,038	157	351	3,915	5,296
Social sciences	72,719	35,076	8,308	14,675	5,819	5,650	169	344	3,325	5,172	73,689	34,652	8,451	15,822	5,835	5,685	150	295	3,498	5,136
History	9,342	6,534	559	1,342	344	337	7	50	362	151	9,594	6,604	608	1,389	360	353	7	56	417	160
Theology and religious vocations	2,909	2,111	302	238	84	68	16	15	90	69	2,819	1,979	286	276	100	87	13	19	100	59
Transportation and materials moving	616	381	47	58	36	33	3	5	36	53	686	417	49	91	46	44	2	3	30	50
Visual and performing arts	55,814	34,081	3,928	7,260	3,825	3,734	91	238	2,643	3,839	58,279	35,140	4,115	8,036	3,960	3,891	69	188	2,732	4,108
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.)