Bachelor's degrees conferred to males by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: Academic years 2020-21 and 2021-22

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Table 322.40.Bachelor's degrees conferred to males by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: Academic years 2020-21 and 2021-22
Field of study	2020-21										2021-22
	Total	American Indian/Alaska Native	Asian/Pacific Islander			Black	Hispanic	White	Two or more races	Nonresident	Total	American Indian/Alaska Native	Asian/Pacific Islander			Black	Hispanic	White	Two or more races	Nonresident
	Total	American Indian/Alaska Native	Total	Asian	Pacific Islander	Black	Hispanic	White	Two or more races	Nonresident	Total	American Indian/Alaska Native	Total	Asian	Pacific Islander	Black	Hispanic	White	Two or more races	Nonresident
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
All fields, total	860,797	3,406	75,720	73,851	1,869	72,087	123,274	499,062	33,010	54,238	835,316	3,127	77,963	76,154	1,809	69,538	122,904	479,308	33,161	49,315
Agriculture and natural resources¹	17,408	105	554	530	24	558	1,706	13,408	575	502	16,592	101	584	555	29	528	1,636	12,695	601	447
Architecture and related services	4,703	11	355	337	18	276	913	2,558	140	450	4,679	17	363	357	6	282	932	2,418	187	480
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	1,882	42	185	174	11	289	431	678	123	134	1,637	47	145	140	5	257	383	554	131	120
Biological and biomedical sciences	45,005	172	7,376	7,286	90	3,021	6,811	24,017	2,057	1,551	44,397	142	7,599	7,517	82	2,799	6,733	23,481	2,107	1,536
Business²	208,529	817	14,975	14,514	461	16,310	28,078	127,503	7,007	13,839	200,817	736	15,083	14,640	443	15,710	28,256	122,464	6,801	11,767

Communication, journalism, and related programs	32,716	99	1,367	1,293	74	4,218	5,043	19,375	1,414	1,200	31,253	86	1,361	1,297	64	4,029	4,943	18,408	1,329	1,097
Communications technologies	2,398	9	166	156	10	374	369	1,262	95	123	2,584	11	180	174	6	426	392	1,276	129	170
Computer and information sciences and support services	81,926	274	13,478	13,302	176	6,598	9,627	41,109	3,118	7,722	83,961	258	14,705	14,526	179	6,884	10,183	40,930	3,354	7,647
Education	15,407	106	496	467	29	1,411	1,752	10,931	505	206	15,029	78	475	444	31	1,320	1,802	10,607	538	209
Engineering	95,486	239	10,684	10,578	106	3,779	11,930	55,247	3,636	9,971	91,917	209	10,821	10,705	116	3,814	11,950	53,153	3,598	8,372

Engineering technologies³	16,249	93	779	758	21	1,278	2,092	10,582	442	983	15,621	69	795	781	14	1,218	2,145	10,116	491	787
English language and literature/letters	9,821	36	444	425	19	763	1,664	6,324	428	162	9,093	31	459	443	16	722	1,520	5,778	428	155
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,640	19	225	214	11	384	453	1,347	115	97	2,416	10	185	176	9	399	410	1,242	106	64
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	4,546	9	285	283	2	190	973	2,673	220	196	4,223	10	266	259	7	138	992	2,374	230	213
Health professions and related programs	40,742	218	4,960	4,790	170	4,767	6,337	22,187	1,490	783	39,856	200	5,249	5,055	194	4,805	6,525	20,919	1,517	641

Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	27,733	160	1,022	929	93	3,886	6,088	15,274	987	316	26,257	158	958	875	83	3,616	6,008	14,386	883	248
Legal professions and studies	1,321	8	64	61	3	190	259	712	56	32	1,309	6	65	63	2	174	266	713	60	25
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	14,898	104	621	569	52	2,522	1,998	8,660	637	356	13,153	103	557	516	41	2,216	1,764	7,602	588	323
Library science	11	0	1	0	1	0	1	9	0	0	21	0	0	0	0	1	1	16	3	0
Mathematics and statistics	15,720	21	2,186	2,165	21	555	1,702	7,582	551	3,123	15,459	28	2,297	2,278	19	462	1,547	7,435	595	3,095

Military technologies and applied sciences	1,169	12	38	34	4	97	121	818	61	22	1,263	4	40	38	2	96	157	895	53	18
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	19,061	89	1,623	1,579	44	2,349	2,995	10,127	832	1,046	19,298	90	1,871	1,824	47	2,224	2,978	10,209	846	1,080
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology	27,162	130	1,519	1,436	83	3,779	4,141	15,626	1,168	799	26,751	118	1,523	1,453	70	3,700	4,141	15,375	1,110	784
Philosophy and religious studies	7,884	16	318	311	7	339	777	5,899	239	296	7,425	27	306	291	15	291	706	5,581	244	270
Physical sciences and science technologies	16,204	50	1,476	1,450	26	700	2,052	10,016	668	1,242	15,450	57	1,461	1,447	14	655	1,979	9,413	707	1,178

Precision production	16	2	3	3	0	0	0	9	0	2	8	0	0	0	0	0	2	6	0	0
Psychology	25,573	113	2,203	2,142	61	3,052	5,322	12,731	1,169	983	25,778	114	2,330	2,275	55	2,887	5,527	12,668	1,283	969
Public administration and social services	5,820	44	274	257	17	1,043	1,093	3,021	220	125	5,349	40	264	235	29	902	990	2,835	213	105
Social sciences and history	76,437	242	5,545	5,388	157	5,524	12,130	44,151	3,159	5,686	70,977	210	5,423	5,285	138	5,112	11,334	40,692	3,143	5,063
Social sciences	63,049	194	5,067	4,931	136	4,971	10,163	34,475	2,670	5,509	58,468	157	5,019	4,902	117	4,562	9,411	31,787	2,658	4,874
History	13,388	48	478	457	21	553	1,967	9,676	489	177	12,509	53	404	383	21	550	1,923	8,905	485	189

Theology and religious vocations	3,965	16	115	108	7	283	312	3,024	133	82	3,836	20	85	70	15	337	335	2,870	91	98
Transportation and materials moving	5,199	18	236	217	19	297	529	3,501	208	410	5,618	30	256	237	19	318	602	3,768	233	411
Visual and performing arts	33,166	132	2,147	2,095	52	3,255	5,575	18,701	1,557	1,799	33,289	117	2,257	2,198	59	3,216	5,765	18,429	1,562	1,943
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 and U.S. service academies. 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), Completions component, Fall 2021 (final data) and Fall 2022 (provisional data). (This table was prepared September 2023.)

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