Table 323.40.

Master's degrees conferred to males 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	326,201	165,361	27,598	27,357	21,899	21,336	563	1,099	7,512	75,375	325,664	163,274	27,520	28,597	22,733	22,146	587	1,142	7,883	74,515
Agriculture and natural resources1	3,137	2,094	110	192	108	105	3	13	82	538	3,000	1,984	96	199	73	72	1	22	84	542
Architecture and related services	3,664	1,700	197	449	153	150	3	3	83	1,079	3,318	1,575	148	399	163	161	2	7	82	944
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender,     and group studies	546	247	48	78	37	37	0	22	24	90	549	253	38	63	40	39	1	15	21	119
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,338	3,889	470	646	1,086	1,080	6	27	232	988	7,232	3,837	481	659	973	965	8	16	244	1,022
Business2	101,508	55,338	9,891	8,610	7,552	7,340	212	313	2,240	17,564	100,192	54,290	9,406	8,881	7,799	7,574	225	359	2,351	17,106
Communication, journalism, and     related programs	3,016	1,667	334	314	89	83	6	11	85	516	2,930	1,589	373	306	93	90	3	9	84	476
Communications technologies	285	97	26	21	11	10	1	0	3	127	279	94	16	24	15	15	0	0	1	129
Computer and information sciences and     support services	30,673	7,952	1,802	1,241	2,457	2,429	28	41	459	16,721	34,394	8,533	1,968	1,513	3,031	3,001	30	47	550	18,752
Education	32,104	21,945	3,417	3,717	1,119	1,046	73	181	828	897	31,709	21,413	3,509	3,799	1,143	1,064	79	168	839	838
Engineering	36,751	11,648	849	1,866	2,802	2,789	13	36	625	18,925	34,519	11,296	862	1,869	2,647	2,627	20	39	630	17,176
Engineering technologies3	4,347	1,772	245	223	197	194	3	15	73	1,822	4,235	1,853	258	269	215	210	5	17	72	1,551
English language and literature/letters	2,635	1,938	142	241	86	82	4	20	88	120	2,461	1,807	150	274	62	60	2	15	64	89
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	462	279	76	43	15	15	0	4	12	33	468	297	45	51	24	24	0	3	11	37
Foreign languages, literatures, and     linguistics	1,086	550	24	156	28	27	1	2	22	304	1,029	497	29	177	24	23	1	2	38	262
Health professions and related programs	23,606	13,535	2,773	2,444	2,731	2,646	85	97	651	1,375	24,160	13,699	2,846	2,784	2,779	2,693	86	122	675	1,255
Homeland security, law enforcement,     and firefighting	5,201	3,163	857	697	169	154	15	34	126	155	5,241	3,203	853	685	188	176	12	36	128	148
Legal professions and studies	4,003	1,090	254	255	159	155	4	34	53	2,158	4,082	1,126	305	303	158	152	6	37	66	2,087
Liberal arts and sciences, general     studies, and humanities	792	522	87	71	24	22	2	10	24	54	769	519	98	61	24	23	1	4	19	44
Library science	918	677	63	95	39	37	2	2	24	18	824	618	36	84	37	37	0	4	32	13
Mathematics and statistics	6,600	2,088	127	295	469	467	2	5	137	3,479	6,960	2,178	143	353	501	500	1	12	134	3,639
Military technologies and applied sciences	424	272	58	40	18	17	1	3	6	27	588	379	77	52	25	25	0	3	25	27
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	3,958	1,976	307	370	269	265	4	17	110	909	4,223	2,106	342	366	307	302	5	12	131	959
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and     kinesiology	5,083	3,231	801	506	108	95	13	20	149	268	5,141	3,279	760	488	131	115	16	14	179	290
Philosophy and religious studies	1,671	1,309	60	90	46	45	1	3	36	127	1,547	1,166	60	92	61	58	3	2	41	125
Physical sciences and science technologies	4,397	2,425	106	334	227	224	3	6	125	1,174	4,320	2,312	120	294	225	221	4	6	106	1,257
Precision production	8	3	0	0	1	1	0	0	1	3	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Psychology	5,601	3,427	635	821	282	266	16	31	177	228	5,773	3,366	775	810	324	309	15	27	214	257
Public administration and social services	10,694	5,668	1,685	1,433	477	457	20	70	335	1,026	10,706	5,682	1,664	1,575	507	486	21	47	337	894
Social sciences and history	9,893	5,503	541	823	393	387	6	30	286	2,317	9,664	5,392	504	849	363	350	13	30	285	2,241
Social sciences	8,098	4,093	472	677	360	355	5	20	238	2,238	7,972	4,042	447	708	340	331	9	21	242	2,172
History	1,795	1,410	69	146	33	32	1	10	48	79	1,692	1,350	57	141	23	19	4	9	43	69
Theology and religious vocations	8,122	5,109	1,077	558	446	424	22	28	177	727	7,974	4,989	994	576	465	445	20	32	168	750
Transportation and materials moving	590	384	51	49	25	23	2	0	15	66	479	283	47	50	17	16	1	0	12	70
Visual and performing arts	7,088	3,863	485	679	276	264	12	21	224	1,540	6,892	3,656	517	692	319	313	6	35	260	1,413
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.)