Table 323.50.

Master'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	507,591	282,072	65,525	51,519	30,301	29,353	948	2,353	13,032	62,789	517,785	285,145	65,230	55,958	31,935	30,867	1,068	2,407	14,250	62,860
Agriculture and natural resources1	4,407	2,920	167	279	134	130	4	28	136	743	4,393	2,882	124	322	176	167	9	26	120	743
Architecture and related services	3,647	1,469	167	342	228	224	4	9	93	1,339	3,478	1,386	154	382	212	208	4	9	87	1,248
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender,     and group studies	1,047	411	127	154	54	53	1	37	69	195	978	377	113	138	66	64	2	27	55	202
Biological and biomedical sciences	10,754	5,182	1,061	992	1,415	1,407	8	34	358	1,712	11,544	5,577	1,123	1,071	1,465	1,453	12	33	435	1,840
Business2	95,566	43,758	16,077	8,961	7,266	7,047	219	417	2,307	16,780	97,230	45,098	15,475	9,617	7,608	7,332	276	473	2,461	16,498
Communication, journalism, and     related programs	7,447	3,637	1,032	778	274	265	9	20	214	1,492	7,658	3,689	1,126	799	289	281	8	29	267	1,459
Communications technologies	250	59	23	13	6	6	0	0	7	142	260	65	20	24	15	15	0	0	4	132
Computer and information sciences and     support services	14,998	2,593	1,072	503	1,372	1,358	14	14	204	9,240	17,127	3,013	1,165	608	1,623	1,608	15	18	243	10,457
Education	114,325	78,662	12,416	13,423	3,790	3,592	198	552	2,572	2,910	115,266	78,278	12,328	14,365	3,997	3,726	271	523	2,949	2,826
Engineering	12,950	3,575	341	648	1,141	1,134	7	24	255	6,966	12,747	3,698	344	681	1,190	1,187	3	19	259	6,556
Engineering technologies3	1,885	596	139	88	124	121	3	11	41	886	1,984	677	139	114	141	139	2	5	39	869
English language and literature/letters	5,582	3,948	459	497	215	206	9	33	193	237	5,401	3,783	377	549	202	192	10	21	236	233
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,825	1,786	384	298	109	104	5	8	70	170	2,812	1,825	341	287	112	109	3	13	64	170
Foreign languages, literatures, and     linguistics	1,995	878	63	387	76	74	2	2	47	542	1,901	844	53	399	81	78	3	4	64	456
Health professions and related programs	107,785	68,175	14,599	9,999	8,797	8,528	269	550	2,783	2,882	111,164	69,748	14,912	11,236	8,972	8,720	252	561	2,962	2,773
Homeland security, law enforcement,     and firefighting	5,102	2,551	1,452	646	147	132	15	37	183	86	5,365	2,661	1,426	800	155	144	11	30	204	89
Legal professions and studies	5,484	1,278	573	377	203	194	9	100	84	2,869	5,920	1,494	608	466	225	218	7	92	108	2,927
Liberal arts and sciences, general     studies, and humanities	1,317	825	175	126	37	37	0	10	47	97	1,221	726	175	121	39	35	4	10	53	97
Library science	4,246	3,277	230	405	127	125	2	14	146	47	4,135	3,178	243	388	134	132	2	17	136	39
Mathematics and statistics	4,782	1,029	98	136	329	328	1	1	59	3,130	5,079	1,129	87	200	422	422	0	5	47	3,189
Military technologies and applied sciences	148	89	33	11	5	5	0	1	6	3	251	165	33	25	9	9	0	0	9	10
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	6,763	3,704	610	614	429	418	11	24	213	1,169	7,324	3,874	629	668	516	510	6	18	236	1,383
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and     kinesiology	3,880	2,568	555	336	85	81	4	13	133	190	3,967	2,540	559	399	90	86	4	29	145	205
Philosophy and religious studies	609	396	45	51	22	21	1	3	21	71	631	390	64	54	33	31	2	0	18	72
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,724	1,485	88	191	184	181	3	12	76	688	2,656	1,414	103	214	173	171	2	7	92	653
Precision production	4	1	0	0	2	2	0	0	0	1	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2
Psychology	23,535	13,916	3,402	3,307	1,092	1,042	50	118	815	885	23,990	14,130	3,178	3,622	1,144	1,085	59	128	934	854
Public administration and social services	38,189	20,298	7,610	5,953	1,338	1,261	77	195	1,159	1,636	39,006	20,195	7,888	6,406	1,543	1,472	71	210	1,295	1,469
Social sciences and history	10,410	5,164	894	987	485	475	10	37	325	2,518	9,843	4,815	850	994	514	506	8	49	307	2,314
Social sciences	8,865	4,031	803	844	452	443	9	29	276	2,430	8,379	3,726	769	860	473	466	7	36	261	2,254
History	1,545	1,133	91	143	33	32	1	8	49	88	1,464	1,089	81	134	41	40	1	13	46	60
Theology and religious vocations	4,720	2,691	1,005	300	260	252	8	22	113	329	4,672	2,745	923	279	252	242	10	21	114	338
Transportation and materials moving	184	99	20	20	9	8	1	0	8	28	152	93	8	9	3	3	0	1	8	30
Visual and performing arts	10,031	5,052	608	697	546	542	4	27	295	2,806	9,625	4,656	662	721	534	522	12	29	296	2,727
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.)