Table 324.25.

Doctor'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	187,577	107,570	15,119	14,145	21,035	20,748	287	721	5,090	23,897	190,178	107,853	15,725	14,868	21,611	21,310	301	674	5,497	23,950
Agriculture and natural resources1	4,954	3,472	136	271	202	200	2	19	117	737	4,886	3,331	120	346	230	226	4	17	135	707
Architecture and related services	255	91	15	15	20	18	2	0	3	111	252	83	12	13	24	23	1	0	1	119
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	370	141	58	42	24	21	3	3	18	84	334	130	63	37	19	19	0	6	14	65
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,978	4,177	266	543	788	775	13	22	220	1,962	7,885	4,112	285	507	711	704	7	16	227	2,027
Business2	3,640	1,522	866	187	200	197	3	14	72	779	3,443	1,402	806	206	183	178	5	17	78	751
Communication, journalism, and related programs	583	302	38	27	29	29	0	3	8	176	602	320	39	27	25	24	1	0	16	175
Communications technologies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1
Computer and information sciences and     support services	2,224	616	88	41	158	157	1	2	37	1,282	2,414	659	103	54	149	146	3	2	49	1,398
Education	13,020	7,499	2,718	1,195	444	423	21	84	280	800	13,051	7,508	2,742	1,196	495	460	35	59	287	764
Engineering	11,136	3,137	204	329	780	775	5	17	128	6,541	11,141	2,998	173	340	745	743	2	7	147	6,731
Engineering technologies3	215	92	32	4	17	17	0	1	4	65	143	72	8	2	16	16	0	0	0	45
English language and literature/letters	1,274	924	46	77	47	45	2	2	46	132	1,285	929	75	71	47	45	2	3	45	115
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	285	136	27	16	15	15	0	1	11	79	281	158	22	13	8	8	0	0	7	73
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,212	555	20	116	51	51	0	3	22	445	1,162	532	17	128	50	49	1	2	17	416
Health professions and related programs	79,556	48,348	5,764	5,498	14,522	14,364	158	284	2,373	2,767	82,492	49,134	6,394	6,083	15,169	15,008	161	261	2,682	2,769
Homeland security, law enforcement, and     firefighting	250	155	54	14	3	2	1	0	11	13	263	149	56	23	3	2	1	2	5	25
Legal professions and studies	34,387	22,352	2,973	4,209	2,216	2,165	51	190	1,096	1,351	34,471	22,437	2,910	4,179	2,259	2,208	51	201	1,136	1,349
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	109	76	18	4	2	2	0	1	2	6	114	73	16	9	4	4	0	1	2	9
Library science	39	28	2	1	1	1	0	0	0	7	29	12	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	15
Mathematics and statistics	2,003	734	30	65	113	112	1	1	42	1,018	2,020	662	33	58	125	124	1	1	32	1,109
Military technologies and applied sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	900	502	91	40	52	51	1	4	26	185	990	512	86	60	48	48	0	7	34	243
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and     kinesiology	337	227	25	8	6	6	0	2	8	61	349	231	22	22	8	8	0	2	13	51
Philosophy and religious studies	712	447	46	31	41	41	0	1	18	128	694	466	36	50	30	30	0	1	16	95
Physical sciences and science technologies	6,298	2,956	113	252	368	366	2	9	134	2,466	5,968	2,855	82	242	309	307	2	8	135	2,337
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	6,215	4,004	573	618	409	398	11	28	212	371	6,346	4,152	622	638	387	376	11	23	227	297
Public administration and social services	1,287	655	287	103	50	46	4	10	19	163	1,409	643	357	124	61	57	4	13	29	182
Social sciences and history	4,544	2,332	187	290	213	210	3	10	106	1,406	4,436	2,263	187	260	215	212	3	16	96	1,399
Social sciences	3,704	1,753	151	223	193	190	3	6	84	1,294	3,597	1,673	153	201	191	188	3	13	72	1,294
History	840	579	36	67	20	20	0	4	22	112	839	590	34	59	24	24	0	3	24	105
Theology and religious vocations	1,937	1,006	393	73	139	137	2	4	21	301	1,981	1,059	412	84	152	147	5	6	28	240
Transportation and materials moving	12	8	1	0	1	1	0	0	0	2	20	12	2	0	2	2	0	0	0	4
Visual and performing arts	1,845	1,076	48	76	124	123	1	6	56	459	1,716	959	45	95	136	135	1	3	39	439
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 September 2021.)