Table 321.30.

Associate's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: Academic years 2019-20 and 2020-21

Field of study	2019-20										2020-21
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander			American Indian/Alaska Native	Two or more races	Nonresident	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander			American Indian/Alaska Native	Two or more races	Nonresident
					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	1,019,038	509,581	119,892	255,047	64,660	61,790	2,870	8,449	37,811	23,598	1,036,431	508,795	123,901	266,117	68,420	65,360	3,060	8,151	39,108	21,939
Agriculture and natural resources1	12,740	9,985	244	1,755	190	175	15	127	372	67	11,847	9,067	264	1,739	193	176	17	136	386	62
Architecture and related services	631	229	43	240	61	59	2	2	11	45	615	238	40	233	47	46	1	4	16	37
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	673	149	83	276	39	25	14	56	53	17	936	245	118	362	48	36	12	72	75	16
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,454	2,524	587	2,571	1,111	1,095	16	60	307	294	9,208	3,137	769	3,050	1,421	1,391	30	88	464	279
Business2	112,191	52,340	16,036	24,840	9,194	8,872	322	1,099	3,776	4,906	116,086	53,916	16,647	26,044	10,038	9,621	417	1,094	3,982	4,365
Communication, journalism, and related programs	9,019	3,189	827	3,590	705	671	34	44	439	225	8,993	3,262	775	3,535	705	672	33	46	492	178
Communications technologies	4,104	2,027	604	951	197	191	6	21	190	114	3,909	1,946	614	891	180	175	5	22	169	87
Computer and information sciences and support    services	32,037	17,025	4,151	5,129	3,030	2,931	99	230	1,241	1,231	34,164	17,702	4,468	5,600	3,615	3,522	93	241	1,330	1,208
Education	16,179	8,388	2,164	4,198	407	380	27	329	466	227	18,144	8,957	2,209	5,353	553	505	48	291	574	207
Engineering	6,518	3,462	450	1,304	640	630	10	56	225	381	6,316	3,123	486	1,416	669	650	19	42	218	362
Engineering technologies3	49,423	31,577	3,974	8,849	2,135	1,966	169	578	1,649	661	48,748	31,520	4,060	8,435	2,010	1,850	160	506	1,639	578
English language and literature/letters	3,434	1,333	199	1,463	215	209	6	13	181	30	3,601	1,436	189	1,466	257	245	12	19	204	30
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	9,281	3,161	1,251	3,870	529	514	15	75	244	151	9,773	3,300	1,315	4,091	556	539	17	67	308	136
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,917	980	123	1,505	156	152	4	14	95	44	2,876	1,046	98	1,419	138	134	4	9	121	45
Health professions and related programs	172,294	100,933	24,429	28,533	10,040	9,464	576	1,517	5,415	1,427	181,046	103,452	27,114	31,270	10,524	9,908	616	1,493	5,607	1,586
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	34,913	15,794	4,380	12,002	1,172	1,062	110	295	1,085	185	35,009	15,481	4,283	12,404	1,184	1,077	107	292	1,154	211
Legal professions and studies	5,547	2,935	856	1,230	158	142	16	71	218	79	5,806	3,010	825	1,422	162	147	15	56	230	101
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	402,888	200,165	48,331	104,816	21,197	20,170	1,027	2,839	15,912	9,628	400,447	194,643	48,322	107,839	21,683	20,660	1,023	2,748	16,252	8,960
Library science	202	131	11	42	15	15	0	2	1	0	171	117	1	34	13	13	0	0	6	0
Mathematics and statistics	4,851	1,482	110	1,729	963	956	7	19	215	333	4,842	1,368	134	1,721	1,112	1,102	10	15	227	265
Military technologies and applied sciences	992	617	110	181	34	33	1	8	42	0	1,106	672	113	218	55	47	8	2	45	1
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	33,791	12,327	2,177	12,316	4,633	4,538	95	189	1,426	723	32,915	11,764	1,892	12,200	4,906	4,799	107	147	1,367	639
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology	5,674	1,983	537	2,206	510	489	21	38	271	129	5,956	2,047	547	2,400	573	550	23	25	246	118
Philosophy and religious studies	1,625	1,225	58	215	35	30	5	4	37	51	1,616	1,200	67	206	43	42	1	8	27	65
Physical sciences and science technologies	10,753	4,500	990	2,822	1,352	1,323	29	91	441	557	10,194	3,967	1,110	2,688	1,383	1,364	19	65	464	517
Precision production	4,763	3,448	190	765	144	136	8	59	141	16	4,836	3,645	175	679	122	118	4	51	143	21
Psychology	16,207	4,923	1,085	7,800	1,339	1,295	44	119	740	201	18,787	5,749	1,214	9,114	1,553	1,490	63	111	822	224
Public administration and social services	6,321	2,590	1,742	1,449	170	151	19	145	195	30	6,761	2,745	1,972	1,549	140	124	16	137	183	35
Social sciences and history	28,241	8,764	1,945	12,550	2,745	2,624	121	195	1,366	676	28,822	8,911	1,937	12,910	2,962	2,830	132	217	1,347	538
Social sciences	25,729	7,660	1,876	11,515	2,614	2,500	114	180	1,228	656	26,265	7,770	1,849	11,852	2,830	2,703	127	204	1,233	527
History	2,512	1,104	69	1,035	131	124	7	15	138	20	2,557	1,141	88	1,058	132	127	5	13	114	11
Theology and religious vocations	1,079	637	229	120	18	13	5	14	33	28	982	565	193	121	25	19	6	12	43	23
Transportation and materials moving	1,720	1,073	108	265	89	87	2	6	67	112	1,999	1,185	146	325	106	98	8	14	82	141
Visual and performing arts	20,576	9,685	1,868	5,465	1,437	1,392	45	134	957	1,030	19,920	9,379	1,804	5,383	1,444	1,410	34	121	885	904

1Includes Agricultural, animal, plant, veterinary science, and related fields as well as Natural resources and conservation.

2Includes Business, management, marketing, and related support services as well as Culinary, entertainment, and personal services.

3Includes 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. Degree counts are limited to degree-granting institutions. 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 2020 and Fall 2021, Completions component. (This table was prepared September 2022.)