Table 322.30.

Bachelor'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	2,038,682	1,184,082	197,491	302,663	161,468	157,085	4,383	9,154	77,621	106,203	2,066,445	1,172,187	206,527	324,848	169,261	164,845	4,416	9,545	81,369	102,708
Agriculture and natural resources1	41,858	31,380	1,396	4,449	1,581	1,525	56	269	1,558	1,225	41,925	30,967	1,518	4,749	1,619	1,565	54	268	1,691	1,113
Architecture and related services	9,045	4,823	482	1,506	739	725	14	19	326	1,150	9,296	4,857	532	1,702	835	809	26	25	341	1,004
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	7,771	2,881	1,210	2,012	654	618	36	131	515	368	7,374	2,671	1,163	1,899	617	585	32	149	530	345
Biological and biomedical sciences	126,616	68,867	10,469	18,099	18,853	18,616	237	392	5,591	4,345	131,499	69,108	11,303	20,143	19,935	19,714	221	474	6,142	4,394
Business2	387,881	226,523	36,577	53,401	29,078	28,184	894	1,721	12,600	27,981	391,375	224,546	37,983	57,111	30,703	29,745	958	1,852	13,308	25,872
Communication, journalism, and related programs	91,763	54,978	10,687	13,848	4,099	3,927	172	275	3,965	3,911	90,775	53,885	10,504	14,248	4,113	3,938	175	295	4,032	3,698
Communications technologies	4,424	2,285	639	632	347	339	8	15	204	302	4,557	2,387	631	633	376	354	22	18	198	314
Computer and information sciences and support services	97,054	47,605	8,121	10,590	17,084	16,885	199	270	3,764	9,620	104,874	49,537	9,141	12,109	18,786	18,572	214	345	4,170	10,786
Education	85,052	62,319	6,016	10,131	2,424	2,276	148	520	2,532	1,110	89,398	63,987	6,540	11,782	2,653	2,519	134	564	2,684	1,188
Engineering	128,337	73,855	5,276	15,238	15,008	14,836	172	303	4,742	13,915	126,037	71,586	5,378	16,001	15,081	14,948	133	318	5,038	12,635
Engineering technologies3	19,788	12,675	1,570	2,383	995	966	29	125	626	1,414	19,004	12,119	1,597	2,510	954	928	26	113	557	1,154
English language and literature/letters	38,049	24,992	2,975	5,844	1,746	1,688	58	165	1,757	570	35,762	22,932	2,971	5,823	1,627	1,572	55	156	1,694	559
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	23,248	13,551	2,880	3,941	1,282	1,240	42	119	870	605	22,319	12,930	2,681	3,917	1,277	1,226	51	94	902	518
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	16,309	9,244	674	3,892	1,002	983	19	47	736	714	15,518	8,520	778	3,793	986	975	11	30	764	647
Health professions and related programs	257,327	159,941	30,065	34,117	20,586	19,785	801	1,360	8,110	3,148	268,018	160,235	33,638	38,313	22,229	21,445	784	1,537	8,583	3,483
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	57,044	28,546	10,111	13,527	1,675	1,500	175	351	1,993	841	58,009	28,350	10,276	14,402	1,843	1,661	182	375	2,093	670
Legal professions and studies	4,262	2,242	620	870	216	203	13	34	201	79	4,589	2,361	683	971	254	247	7	35	207	78
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	42,922	24,864	6,217	7,037	1,737	1,632	105	362	1,720	985	41,909	23,424	6,343	7,320	1,829	1,718	111	310	1,781	902
Library science	118	85	11	15	3	2	1	0	4	0	119	96	7	11	1	0	1	1	3	0
Mathematics and statistics	27,227	13,302	1,084	2,820	3,401	3,362	39	48	929	5,643	27,092	12,777	1,090	2,927	3,702	3,668	34	40	994	5,562
Military technologies and applied sciences	1,156	799	101	121	43	30	13	8	63	21	1,524	1,045	145	164	56	50	6	15	71	28
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	55,037	28,561	6,548	10,192	4,659	4,521	138	223	2,464	2,390	54,584	27,660	6,473	10,679	4,737	4,622	115	275	2,367	2,393
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology	53,749	31,959	6,870	8,243	2,906	2,774	132	288	2,262	1,221	54,294	31,656	6,989	8,778	2,924	2,779	145	274	2,343	1,330
Philosophy and religious studies	11,898	8,346	711	1,311	606	581	25	33	450	441	11,988	8,365	712	1,346	588	573	15	29	470	478
Physical sciences and science technologies	30,743	18,697	1,615	3,851	2,904	2,872	32	134	1,346	2,196	29,238	17,421	1,681	3,782	2,896	2,852	44	101	1,289	2,068
Precision production	39	18	1	8	3	3	0	0	3	6	28	16	0	1	4	4	0	2	0	5
Psychology	119,989	62,845	14,562	24,433	8,451	8,192	259	620	5,282	3,796	126,944	64,858	15,681	27,308	8,961	8,686	275	579	5,706	3,851
Public administration and social services	34,352	17,353	7,026	6,615	1,201	1,112	89	307	1,359	491	34,817	17,584	6,911	6,954	1,277	1,195	82	269	1,353	469
Social sciences and history	161,219	87,255	14,562	29,038	11,719	11,419	300	614	7,001	11,030	160,827	85,050	14,674	30,363	11,825	11,489	336	613	7,291	11,011
Social sciences	137,998	70,743	13,377	25,727	10,916	10,635	281	488	6,083	10,664	137,908	68,887	13,554	26,913	10,988	10,680	308	526	6,374	10,666
History	23,221	16,512	1,185	3,311	803	784	19	126	918	366	22,919	16,163	1,120	3,450	837	809	28	87	917	345
Theology and religious vocations	6,855	4,941	608	602	227	204	23	57	248	172	6,737	4,964	591	587	204	190	14	29	220	142
Transportation and materials moving	5,251	3,591	322	572	232	210	22	23	178	333	5,993	3,978	365	638	289	268	21	21	234	468
Visual and performing arts	92,299	54,759	7,485	13,325	6,007	5,875	132	321	4,222	6,180	90,022	52,315	7,548	13,884	6,080	5,948	132	339	4,313	5,543
Other and not classified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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

2Includes Business, management, marketing, and related support services; and 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. 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.)