Table 323.30.

Master'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	833,792	447,433	93,123	78,876	52,200	50,689	1,511	3,452	20,544	138,164	843,449	448,419	92,750	84,555	54,668	53,013	1,655	3,549	22,133	137,375
Agriculture and natural resources1	7,544	5,014	277	471	242	235	7	41	218	1,281	7,393	4,866	220	521	249	239	10	48	204	1,285
Architecture and related services	7,311	3,169	364	791	381	374	7	12	176	2,418	6,796	2,961	302	781	375	369	6	16	169	2,192
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender,     and group studies	1,593	658	175	232	91	90	1	59	93	285	1,527	630	151	201	106	103	3	42	76	321
Biological and biomedical sciences	18,092	9,071	1,531	1,638	2,501	2,487	14	61	590	2,700	18,776	9,414	1,604	1,730	2,438	2,418	20	49	679	2,862
Business2	197,074	99,096	25,968	17,571	14,818	14,387	431	730	4,547	34,344	197,422	99,388	24,881	18,498	15,407	14,906	501	832	4,812	33,604
Communication, journalism, and     related programs	10,463	5,304	1,366	1,092	363	348	15	31	299	2,008	10,588	5,278	1,499	1,105	382	371	11	38	351	1,935
Communications technologies	535	156	49	34	17	16	1	0	10	269	539	159	36	48	30	30	0	0	5	261
Computer and information sciences and     support services	45,671	10,545	2,874	1,744	3,829	3,787	42	55	663	25,961	51,521	11,546	3,133	2,121	4,654	4,609	45	65	793	29,209
Education	146,429	100,607	15,833	17,140	4,909	4,638	271	733	3,400	3,807	146,975	99,691	15,837	18,164	5,140	4,790	350	691	3,788	3,664
Engineering	49,701	15,223	1,190	2,514	3,943	3,923	20	60	880	25,891	47,266	14,994	1,206	2,550	3,837	3,814	23	58	889	23,732
Engineering technologies3	6,232	2,368	384	311	321	315	6	26	114	2,708	6,219	2,530	397	383	356	349	7	22	111	2,420
English language and literature/letters	8,217	5,886	601	738	301	288	13	53	281	357	7,862	5,590	527	823	264	252	12	36	300	322
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	3,287	2,065	460	341	124	119	5	12	82	203	3,280	2,122	386	338	136	133	3	16	75	207
Foreign languages, literatures, and     linguistics	3,081	1,428	87	543	104	101	3	4	69	846	2,930	1,341	82	576	105	101	4	6	102	718
Health professions and related programs	131,391	81,710	17,372	12,443	11,528	11,174	354	647	3,434	4,257	135,324	83,447	17,758	14,020	11,751	11,413	338	683	3,637	4,028
Homeland security, law enforcement,     and firefighting	10,303	5,714	2,309	1,343	316	286	30	71	309	241	10,606	5,864	2,279	1,485	343	320	23	66	332	237
Legal professions and studies	9,487	2,368	827	632	362	349	13	134	137	5,027	10,002	2,620	913	769	383	370	13	129	174	5,014
Liberal arts and sciences, general     studies, and humanities	2,109	1,347	262	197	61	59	2	20	71	151	1,990	1,245	273	182	63	58	5	14	72	141
Library science	5,164	3,954	293	500	166	162	4	16	170	65	4,959	3,796	279	472	171	169	2	21	168	52
Mathematics and statistics	11,382	3,117	225	431	798	795	3	6	196	6,609	12,039	3,307	230	553	923	922	1	17	181	6,828
Military technologies and applied sciences	572	361	91	51	23	22	1	4	12	30	839	544	110	77	34	34	0	3	34	37
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	10,721	5,680	917	984	698	683	15	41	323	2,078	11,547	5,980	971	1,034	823	812	11	30	367	2,342
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and     kinesiology	8,963	5,799	1,356	842	193	176	17	33	282	458	9,108	5,819	1,319	887	221	201	20	43	324	495
Philosophy and religious studies	2,280	1,705	105	141	68	66	2	6	57	198	2,178	1,556	124	146	94	89	5	2	59	197
Physical sciences and science technologies	7,121	3,910	194	525	411	405	6	18	201	1,862	6,976	3,726	223	508	398	392	6	13	198	1,910
Precision production	12	4	0	0	3	3	0	0	1	4	11	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5
Psychology	29,136	17,343	4,037	4,128	1,374	1,308	66	149	992	1,113	29,763	17,496	3,953	4,432	1,468	1,394	74	155	1,148	1,111
Public administration and social services	48,883	25,966	9,295	7,386	1,815	1,718	97	265	1,494	2,662	49,712	25,877	9,552	7,981	2,050	1,958	92	257	1,632	2,363
Social sciences and history	20,303	10,667	1,435	1,810	878	862	16	67	611	4,835	19,507	10,207	1,354	1,843	877	856	21	79	592	4,555
Social sciences	16,963	8,124	1,275	1,521	812	798	14	49	514	4,668	16,351	7,768	1,216	1,568	813	797	16	57	503	4,426
History	3,340	2,543	160	289	66	64	2	18	97	167	3,156	2,439	138	275	64	59	5	22	89	129
Theology and religious vocations	12,842	7,800	2,082	858	706	676	30	50	290	1,056	12,646	7,734	1,917	855	717	687	30	53	282	1,088
Transportation and materials moving	774	483	71	69	34	31	3	0	23	94	631	376	55	59	20	19	1	1	20	100
Visual and performing arts	17,119	8,915	1,093	1,376	822	806	16	48	519	4,346	16,517	8,312	1,179	1,413	853	835	18	64	556	4,140
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.)