Table 324.35.

Doctor'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	104,913	60,148	10,574	8,678	12,401	12,208	193	412	3,250	9,450	108,692	60,991	11,522	9,808	13,117	12,964	153	410	3,479	9,365
Agriculture and natural resources1	3,477	2,537	82	259	181	178	3	12	100	306	3,490	2,545	102	268	168	165	3	11	106	290
Architecture and related services	144	45	7	11	12	12	0	0	1	68	123	37	7	9	11	10	1	0	2	57
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	212	79	34	26	17	17	0	5	9	42	170	69	24	20	13	11	2	4	14	26
Biological and biomedical sciences	4,226	2,162	195	279	375	370	5	8	136	1,071	3,976	2,048	169	322	374	373	1	11	113	939
Business2	1,571	602	448	94	88	87	1	9	42	288	1,787	681	572	106	80	79	1	7	50	291
Communication, journalism, and related programs	360	185	27	18	15	14	1	0	10	105	294	146	27	11	15	15	0	2	15	78
Communications technologies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Computer and information sciences and support services	547	144	44	17	41	40	1	1	16	284	650	172	51	12	52	52	0	0	11	352
Education	8,959	5,077	1,967	812	336	310	26	44	216	507	9,521	5,044	2,398	889	410	385	25	50	249	481
Engineering	2,743	766	63	108	224	224	0	2	41	1,539	2,849	812	62	114	247	246	1	2	75	1,537
Engineering technologies3	49	20	5	0	3	3	0	0	0	21	61	11	10	0	7	7	0	0	0	33
English language and literature/letters	768	535	53	38	33	32	1	1	33	75	660	446	42	38	28	28	0	4	28	74
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	215	122	19	11	6	6	0	0	3	54	180	80	25	17	9	9	0	2	12	35
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	640	281	7	82	33	33	0	1	7	229	545	226	14	66	30	30	0	0	13	196
Health professions and related programs	49,939	29,526	4,562	3,550	8,916	8,812	104	172	1,635	1,578	52,428	30,308	4,851	4,347	9,420	9,337	83	167	1,697	1,638
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	150	83	34	12	0	0	0	0	5	16	130	62	38	15	2	1	1	0	6	7
Legal professions and studies	18,038	10,987	1,857	2,396	1,302	1,271	31	112	638	746	19,117	11,777	1,750	2,550	1,462	1,445	17	104	716	758
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and    humanities	66	42	10	6	1	1	0	1	2	4	55	35	11	4	1	1	0	1	2	1
Library science	20	10	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	9	10	6	1	0	0	0	0	0	0	3
Mathematics and statistics	586	169	11	12	45	45	0	1	6	342	546	173	9	21	39	39	0	0	9	295
Military technologies and applied sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	630	333	61	44	32	32	0	2	21	137	625	329	55	45	38	36	2	1	15	142
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology	166	109	15	12	3	3	0	1	6	20	154	94	18	7	7	6	1	0	6	22
Philosophy and religious studies	212	131	18	12	13	13	0	0	5	33	192	110	23	10	12	12	0	0	1	36
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,026	948	24	98	133	131	2	3	57	763	2,015	882	47	114	110	109	1	1	52	809
Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	4,746	3,062	479	512	303	292	11	13	169	208	4,789	2,922	560	523	278	273	5	27	183	296
Public administration and social services	987	458	271	83	41	38	3	8	19	107	1,004	407	317	92	60	58	2	7	29	92
Social sciences and history	2,018	1,029	101	129	124	122	2	11	47	577	1,951	946	132	137	122	118	4	6	47	561
Social sciences	1,671	805	86	104	105	103	2	9	37	525	1,637	740	114	106	114	110	4	5	42	516
History	347	224	15	25	19	19	0	2	10	52	314	206	18	31	8	8	0	1	5	45
Theology and religious vocations	510	250	163	15	30	29	1	4	6	42	525	218	185	31	34	31	3	1	11	45
Transportation and materials moving	8	3	1	0	2	2	0	0	0	2	4	2	0	1	0	0	0	0	0	1
Visual and performing arts	900	453	16	42	91	90	1	1	20	277	841	403	22	39	88	88	0	2	17	270
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.)