Table 323.40.

Master's degrees conferred to males 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	325,711	163,292	27,525	28,605	22,740	22,153	587	1,142	7,887	74,520	330,700	166,478	29,142	31,310	24,130	23,549	581	1,137	8,110	70,393
Agriculture and natural resources1	3,005	1,989	97	199	73	72	1	22	84	541	2,955	1,985	86	203	96	95	1	11	69	505
Architecture and related services	3,320	1,575	148	399	165	163	2	7	82	944	3,011	1,528	160	414	127	121	6	8	73	701
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	549	253	38	63	40	39	1	15	21	119	504	226	39	72	33	30	3	12	25	97
Biological and biomedical sciences	7,237	3,839	481	660	973	965	8	16	244	1,024	7,288	3,559	570	796	1,065	1,058	7	18	243	1,037
Business2	100,207	54,301	9,406	8,879	7,801	7,575	226	359	2,352	17,109	102,931	56,360	9,908	9,694	8,130	7,935	195	356	2,491	15,992
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,930	1,589	373	306	93	90	3	9	84	476	2,899	1,525	385	342	111	103	8	15	93	428
Communications technologies	279	94	16	24	15	15	0	0	1	129	265	101	27	24	7	7	0	0	7	99
Computer and information sciences and support services	34,399	8,533	1,969	1,513	3,031	3,001	30	47	550	18,756	35,888	9,776	2,157	1,627	3,469	3,430	39	64	607	18,188
Education	31,714	21,416	3,510	3,800	1,143	1,064	79	168	839	838	32,835	21,489	3,935	4,408	1,201	1,123	78	172	836	794
Engineering	34,529	11,297	862	1,871	2,652	2,632	20	38	630	17,179	34,150	11,430	886	1,886	2,747	2,729	18	49	633	16,519
Engineering technologies3	4,235	1,853	258	269	215	210	5	17	72	1,551	4,222	1,899	276	304	226	223	3	15	72	1,430
English language and literature/letters	2,461	1,807	150	274	62	60	2	15	64	89	2,340	1,650	150	270	77	75	2	2	81	110
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	468	297	45	51	24	24	0	3	11	37	405	257	40	52	12	11	1	2	12	30
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,029	497	29	177	24	23	1	2	38	262	1,010	498	27	164	37	35	2	7	27	250
Health professions and related programs	24,149	13,689	2,845	2,785	2,777	2,692	85	122	676	1,255	25,001	13,937	2,859	3,120	2,942	2,859	83	118	726	1,299
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	5,241	3,203	853	685	188	176	12	36	128	148	5,416	3,207	914	722	200	186	14	32	162	179
Legal professions and studies	4,093	1,132	308	303	158	152	6	37	67	2,088	2,829	1,159	334	292	170	162	8	28	57	789
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	769	518	99	62	24	23	1	4	19	43	795	519	93	89	24	23	1	4	22	44
Library science	824	618	36	84	37	37	0	4	32	13	915	698	26	100	39	39	0	3	33	16
Mathematics and statistics	6,962	2,179	143	354	501	500	1	12	135	3,638	7,375	2,406	154	402	589	586	3	4	116	3,704
Military technologies and applied sciences	588	379	77	52	25	25	0	3	25	27	659	408	85	69	35	33	2	2	28	32
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	4,219	2,107	342	366	307	302	5	12	131	954	4,515	2,055	381	513	327	323	4	15	125	1,099
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology	5,141	3,279	760	488	131	115	16	14	179	290	5,555	3,450	848	575	143	131	12	21	184	334
Philosophy and religious studies	1,548	1,166	60	92	61	58	3	3	41	125	1,411	1,011	81	113	61	58	3	0	30	115
Physical sciences and science technologies	4,321	2,312	120	295	225	221	4	6	106	1,257	4,066	2,108	107	328	221	217	4	6	108	1,188
Precision production	6	3	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	3	1	0	2	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	5,767	3,361	774	810	324	309	15	27	214	257	6,082	3,520	724	927	387	362	25	25	243	256
Public administration and social services	10,709	5,686	1,662	1,576	507	486	21	47	337	894	10,399	5,514	1,685	1,584	454	430	24	64	334	764
Social sciences and history	9,665	5,392	504	850	363	350	13	30	285	2,241	9,811	5,431	538	923	412	406	6	34	244	2,229
Social sciences	7,972	4,041	447	709	340	331	9	21	242	2,172	7,924	3,967	474	757	381	377	4	21	185	2,139
History	1,693	1,351	57	141	23	19	4	9	43	69	1,887	1,464	64	166	31	29	2	13	59	90
Theology and religious vocations	7,974	4,989	994	576	465	445	20	32	168	750	8,209	5,028	1,087	590	515	491	24	30	189	770
Transportation and materials moving	479	283	47	50	17	16	1	0	12	70	532	298	61	62	16	16	0	2	18	75
Visual and performing arts	6,894	3,656	519	692	319	313	6	35	260	1,413	6,424	3,445	519	643	257	252	5	18	222	1,320
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.)