Table 323.50.

Master'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	517,820	285,155	65,253	55,965	31,948	30,880	1,068	2,407	14,245	62,847	536,194	293,842	69,104	62,041	34,327	33,238	1,089	2,648	15,094	59,138
Agriculture and natural resources1	4,400	2,889	125	323	176	167	9	26	119	742	4,449	2,922	175	326	159	154	5	28	156	683
Architecture and related services	3,479	1,386	154	382	213	209	4	9	87	1,248	3,310	1,416	162	378	215	214	1	13	93	1,033
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	978	377	113	138	66	64	2	27	55	202	942	357	107	166	46	46	0	39	45	182
Biological and biomedical sciences	11,542	5,575	1,123	1,071	1,465	1,453	12	33	435	1,840	12,145	5,604	1,244	1,261	1,700	1,679	21	28	424	1,884
Business2	97,236	45,101	15,477	9,617	7,607	7,331	276	473	2,462	16,499	99,403	46,824	15,725	10,817	8,022	7,779	243	464	2,683	14,868
Communication, journalism, and related programs	7,658	3,689	1,126	799	289	281	8	29	267	1,459	7,906	3,957	1,096	882	309	295	14	22	230	1,410
Communications technologies	260	65	20	24	15	15	0	0	4	132	252	74	27	14	14	14	0	0	3	120
Computer and information sciences and support    services	17,128	3,012	1,165	608	1,627	1,612	15	18	243	10,455	18,286	3,379	1,275	707	1,986	1,968	18	33	293	10,613
Education	115,275	78,284	12,329	14,367	3,999	3,728	271	523	2,947	2,826	120,921	79,920	13,702	16,478	4,249	4,029	220	696	3,048	2,828
Engineering	12,748	3,697	344	681	1,192	1,189	3	19	259	6,556	13,107	3,903	414	758	1,322	1,312	10	19	316	6,375
Engineering technologies3	1,984	677	139	114	141	139	2	5	39	869	2,153	780	175	157	151	149	2	9	46	835
English language and literature/letters	5,401	3,783	377	549	202	192	10	21	236	233	5,510	3,834	439	552	196	182	14	28	245	216
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,813	1,826	341	287	112	109	3	13	64	170	2,732	1,727	336	292	119	113	6	18	86	154
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,901	844	53	399	81	78	3	4	64	456	1,874	861	60	375	71	71	0	5	42	460
Health professions and related programs	111,168	69,746	14,914	11,239	8,974	8,722	252	561	2,961	2,773	117,024	72,515	15,967	12,145	9,620	9,321	299	627	3,177	2,973
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	5,365	2,661	1,426	800	155	144	11	30	204	89	5,910	2,945	1,524	893	179	160	19	43	215	111
Legal professions and studies	5,931	1,500	609	468	226	219	7	92	108	2,928	4,209	1,607	699	489	225	220	5	95	111	983
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	1,221	726	187	121	39	35	4	10	53	85	1,249	750	188	115	50	49	1	4	58	84
Library science	4,135	3,178	243	388	134	132	2	17	136	39	4,558	3,521	243	473	143	141	2	16	125	37
Mathematics and statistics	5,079	1,129	87	200	422	422	0	5	47	3,189	5,208	1,218	111	193	387	386	1	2	75	3,222
Military technologies and applied sciences	251	165	33	25	9	9	0	0	9	10	299	185	43	21	18	17	1	0	18	14
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	7,322	3,873	629	668	516	510	6	18	236	1,382	7,850	3,889	791	796	638	620	18	26	259	1,451
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology	3,967	2,540	559	399	90	86	4	29	145	205	4,325	2,758	626	414	84	81	3	18	154	271
Philosophy and religious studies	631	390	64	54	33	31	2	0	18	72	662	409	74	55	41	40	1	4	17	62
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,657	1,414	103	214	174	172	2	7	92	653	2,712	1,447	100	227	197	195	2	3	94	644
Precision production	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5
Psychology	23,983	14,127	3,177	3,620	1,144	1,085	59	128	932	855	25,694	14,702	3,455	4,217	1,329	1,255	74	101	948	942
Public administration and social services	39,009	20,193	7,890	6,407	1,545	1,474	71	210	1,295	1,469	38,989	20,041	7,837	6,633	1,538	1,457	81	239	1,318	1,383
Social sciences and history	9,842	4,814	851	994	513	505	8	49	307	2,314	10,034	4,814	869	1,060	499	492	7	31	344	2,417
Social sciences	8,377	3,725	769	860	472	465	7	36	261	2,254	8,439	3,616	780	920	466	461	5	22	290	2,345
History	1,465	1,089	82	134	41	40	1	13	46	60	1,595	1,198	89	140	33	31	2	9	54	72
Theology and religious vocations	4,672	2,745	923	279	252	242	10	21	114	338	5,019	2,905	979	381	253	244	9	16	148	337
Transportation and materials moving	152	93	8	9	3	3	0	1	8	30	138	77	11	7	9	8	1	0	6	28
Visual and performing arts	9,627	4,656	664	721	534	522	12	29	296	2,727	9,319	4,501	650	759	558	547	11	21	317	2,513
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.)