Table 323.30.

Master'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	843,531	448,447	92,778	84,570	54,688	53,033	1,655	3,549	22,132	137,367	866,894	460,320	98,246	93,351	58,457	56,787	1,670	3,785	23,204	129,531
Agriculture and natural resources1	7,405	4,878	222	522	249	239	10	48	203	1,283	7,404	4,907	261	529	255	249	6	39	225	1,188
Architecture and related services	6,799	2,961	302	781	378	372	6	16	169	2,192	6,321	2,944	322	792	342	335	7	21	166	1,734
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,527	630	151	201	106	103	3	42	76	321	1,446	583	146	238	79	76	3	51	70	279
Biological and biomedical sciences	18,779	9,414	1,604	1,731	2,438	2,418	20	49	679	2,864	19,433	9,163	1,814	2,057	2,765	2,737	28	46	667	2,921
Business2	197,443	99,402	24,883	18,496	15,408	14,906	502	832	4,814	33,608	202,334	103,184	25,633	20,511	16,152	15,714	438	820	5,174	30,860
Communication, journalism, and related programs	10,588	5,278	1,499	1,105	382	371	11	38	351	1,935	10,805	5,482	1,481	1,224	420	398	22	37	323	1,838
Communications technologies	539	159	36	48	30	30	0	0	5	261	517	175	54	38	21	21	0	0	10	219
Computer and information sciences and support    services	51,527	11,545	3,134	2,121	4,658	4,613	45	65	793	29,211	54,174	13,155	3,432	2,334	5,455	5,398	57	97	900	28,801
Education	146,989	99,700	15,839	18,167	5,142	4,792	350	691	3,786	3,664	153,756	101,409	17,637	20,886	5,450	5,152	298	868	3,884	3,622
Engineering	47,277	14,994	1,206	2,552	3,844	3,821	23	57	889	23,735	47,257	15,333	1,300	2,644	4,069	4,041	28	68	949	22,894
Engineering technologies3	6,219	2,530	397	383	356	349	7	22	111	2,420	6,375	2,679	451	461	377	372	5	24	118	2,265
English language and literature/letters	7,862	5,590	527	823	264	252	12	36	300	322	7,850	5,484	589	822	273	257	16	30	326	326
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	3,281	2,123	386	338	136	133	3	16	75	207	3,137	1,984	376	344	131	124	7	20	98	184
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	2,930	1,341	82	576	105	101	4	6	102	718	2,884	1,359	87	539	108	106	2	12	69	710
Health professions and related programs	135,317	83,435	17,759	14,024	11,751	11,414	337	683	3,637	4,028	142,025	86,452	18,826	15,265	12,562	12,180	382	745	3,903	4,272
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	10,606	5,864	2,279	1,485	343	320	23	66	332	237	11,326	6,152	2,438	1,615	379	346	33	75	377	290
Legal professions and studies	10,024	2,632	917	771	384	371	13	129	175	5,016	7,038	2,766	1,033	781	395	382	13	123	168	1,772
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	1,990	1,244	286	183	63	58	5	14	72	128	2,044	1,269	281	204	74	72	2	8	80	128
Library science	4,959	3,796	279	472	171	169	2	21	168	52	5,473	4,219	269	573	182	180	2	19	158	53
Mathematics and statistics	12,041	3,308	230	554	923	922	1	17	182	6,827	12,583	3,624	265	595	976	972	4	6	191	6,926
Military technologies and applied sciences	839	544	110	77	34	34	0	3	34	37	958	593	128	90	53	50	3	2	46	46
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	11,541	5,980	971	1,034	823	812	11	30	367	2,336	12,365	5,944	1,172	1,309	965	943	22	41	384	2,550
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology	9,108	5,819	1,319	887	221	201	20	43	324	495	9,880	6,208	1,474	989	227	212	15	39	338	605
Philosophy and religious studies	2,179	1,556	124	146	94	89	5	3	59	197	2,073	1,420	155	168	102	98	4	4	47	177
Physical sciences and science technologies	6,978	3,726	223	509	399	393	6	13	198	1,910	6,778	3,555	207	555	418	412	6	9	202	1,832
Precision production	11	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	5	8	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	5
Psychology	29,750	17,488	3,951	4,430	1,468	1,394	74	155	1,146	1,112	31,776	18,222	4,179	5,144	1,716	1,617	99	126	1,191	1,198
Public administration and social services	49,718	25,879	9,552	7,983	2,052	1,960	92	257	1,632	2,363	49,388	25,555	9,522	8,217	1,992	1,887	105	303	1,652	2,147
Social sciences and history	19,507	10,206	1,355	1,844	876	855	21	79	592	4,555	19,845	10,245	1,407	1,983	911	898	13	65	588	4,646
Social sciences	16,349	7,766	1,216	1,569	812	796	16	57	503	4,426	16,363	7,583	1,254	1,677	847	838	9	43	475	4,484
History	3,158	2,440	139	275	64	59	5	22	89	129	3,482	2,662	153	306	64	60	4	22	113	162
Theology and religious vocations	12,646	7,734	1,917	855	717	687	30	53	282	1,088	13,228	7,933	2,066	971	768	735	33	46	337	1,107
Transportation and materials moving	631	376	55	59	20	19	1	1	20	100	670	375	72	69	25	24	1	2	24	103
Visual and performing arts	16,521	8,312	1,183	1,413	853	835	18	64	556	4,140	15,743	7,946	1,169	1,402	815	799	16	39	539	3,833
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.)