Table 322.50.

Bachelor's degrees conferred to females 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	1,177,298	675,003	127,145	185,433	88,552	86,080	2,472	5,810	46,001	49,354	1,205,681	673,095	134,435	201,592	93,557	91,010	2,547	6,138	48,366	48,498
Agriculture and natural resources1	23,967	17,382	882	2,828	1,016	976	40	152	999	708	24,516	17,556	960	3,044	1,065	1,035	30	163	1,117	611
Architecture and related services	4,350	2,288	230	666	395	391	4	8	164	599	4,592	2,300	256	787	480	472	8	14	201	554
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	5,699	2,133	868	1,525	476	449	27	88	379	230	5,496	1,994	875	1,469	432	411	21	107	408	211
Biological and biomedical sciences	81,639	43,821	7,610	11,817	11,647	11,491	156	267	3,696	2,781	86,505	45,093	8,283	13,333	12,562	12,431	131	302	4,089	2,843
Business2	180,359	98,116	20,580	26,905	14,902	14,451	451	957	6,148	12,751	182,834	97,027	21,671	29,034	15,727	15,230	497	1,035	6,300	12,040
Communication, journalism, and related programs	58,866	35,369	6,441	9,024	2,681	2,586	95	171	2,571	2,609	58,056	34,508	6,284	9,206	2,746	2,645	101	196	2,618	2,498
Communications technologies	1,917	983	240	247	182	180	2	4	98	163	2,158	1,124	257	264	210	198	12	9	103	191
Computer and information sciences and support    services	20,717	8,163	2,149	2,064	4,666	4,627	39	70	893	2,712	22,953	8,429	2,544	2,483	5,310	5,272	38	71	1,049	3,067
Education	69,861	51,377	4,629	8,515	1,973	1,862	111	421	2,060	886	74,013	53,075	5,131	10,030	2,157	2,052	105	458	2,180	982
Engineering	30,597	16,759	1,547	3,654	4,362	4,320	42	62	1,314	2,899	30,555	16,337	1,598	4,073	4,401	4,374	27	78	1,403	2,665
Engineering technologies3	2,775	1,595	300	365	204	201	3	20	121	170	2,755	1,536	320	418	175	170	5	20	115	171
English language and literature/letters	27,444	18,014	2,191	4,206	1,227	1,187	40	118	1,285	403	25,943	16,609	2,208	4,159	1,184	1,148	36	120	1,266	397
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	20,475	12,058	2,467	3,540	1,062	1,030	32	107	745	496	19,679	11,583	2,297	3,464	1,052	1,012	40	75	787	421
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	11,268	6,200	500	2,851	698	684	14	27	495	497	10,973	5,847	588	2,822	701	692	9	21	544	450
Health professions and related programs	217,661	137,495	25,691	28,264	16,011	15,411	600	1,172	6,742	2,286	227,272	138,042	28,870	31,979	17,269	16,655	614	1,319	7,093	2,700
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	28,808	12,672	6,136	7,661	712	643	69	187	1,073	367	30,275	13,075	6,390	8,314	821	732	89	215	1,106	354
Legal professions and studies	2,969	1,511	469	621	158	148	10	24	138	48	3,267	1,650	493	710	190	186	4	27	151	46
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	27,690	15,778	3,749	5,091	1,126	1,069	57	249	1,127	570	27,002	14,758	3,818	5,321	1,208	1,149	59	206	1,143	548
Library science	105	76	8	15	2	1	1	0	4	0	108	87	7	10	0	0	0	1	3	0
Mathematics and statistics	11,443	5,403	513	1,198	1,405	1,391	14	22	377	2,525	11,387	5,203	535	1,231	1,518	1,505	13	19	444	2,437
Military technologies and applied sciences	229	156	26	19	9	6	3	3	13	3	355	227	48	43	18	16	2	3	10	6
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	36,043	18,441	4,309	7,242	2,967	2,890	77	149	1,576	1,359	35,535	17,536	4,124	7,684	3,114	3,043	71	186	1,535	1,356
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology	26,494	16,042	3,114	4,202	1,352	1,297	55	147	1,154	483	27,116	16,015	3,209	4,637	1,405	1,343	62	144	1,175	531
Philosophy and religious studies	3,919	2,338	324	581	280	266	14	12	221	163	4,105	2,463	373	571	270	262	8	13	233	182
Physical sciences and science technologies	13,270	7,697	920	1,663	1,426	1,408	18	69	609	886	13,031	7,404	976	1,732	1,421	1,403	18	51	621	826
Precision production	23	7	1	4	3	3	0	0	2	6	12	7	0	1	1	1	0	0	0	3
Psychology	95,172	50,077	11,732	19,490	6,383	6,190	193	492	4,107	2,891	101,375	52,125	12,632	21,986	6,760	6,546	214	466	4,536	2,870
Public administration and social services	28,482	14,277	6,010	5,559	923	859	64	249	1,114	350	28,997	14,563	5,868	5,861	1,003	938	65	225	1,133	344
Social sciences and history	83,309	41,260	9,064	17,222	6,198	6,041	157	352	3,915	5,298	84,391	40,891	9,151	18,233	6,281	6,102	179	371	4,133	5,331
Social sciences	73,711	34,654	8,455	15,832	5,838	5,688	150	296	3,498	5,138	74,857	34,401	8,584	16,751	5,920	5,748	172	332	3,705	5,164
History	9,598	6,606	609	1,390	360	353	7	56	417	160	9,534	6,490	567	1,482	361	354	7	39	428	167
Theology and religious vocations	2,819	1,979	286	276	100	87	13	19	100	59	2,770	1,940	308	273	89	82	7	13	87	60
Transportation and materials moving	686	417	49	91	46	44	2	3	30	50	794	477	68	109	53	51	2	3	26	58
Visual and performing arts	58,242	35,119	4,110	8,027	3,960	3,891	69	189	2,731	4,106	56,861	33,614	4,293	8,311	3,934	3,854	80	207	2,757	3,745
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.)