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

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Table 323.50.Master's degrees conferred to females 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	536,205	2,646	34,283	33,194	1,089	69,100	62,043	293,807	15,095	59,231	551,355	2,546	38,102	36,988	1,114	69,568	67,725	302,671	16,160	54,583
Agriculture and natural resources¹	4,449	28	157	152	5	175	327	2,915	157	690	5,153	24	236	225	11	161	441	3,416	189	686
Architecture and related services	3,310	13	215	214	1	162	378	1,416	93	1,033	3,516	7	246	241	5	189	424	1,457	105	1,088
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	943	39	47	47	0	107	166	357	45	182	993	31	68	67	1	132	202	351	56	153
Biological and biomedical sciences	12,144	28	1,698	1,677	21	1,243	1,261	5,603	424	1,887	13,246	31	1,764	1,747	17	1,498	1,505	6,199	523	1,726
Business²	99,408	464	7,996	7,753	243	15,724	10,814	46,814	2,683	14,913	102,091	483	8,917	8,670	247	15,254	11,995	48,929	2,827	13,686

Communication, journalism, and related programs	7,916	22	308	294	14	1,098	882	3,962	231	1,413	8,870	35	431	422	9	1,163	1,065	4,575	339	1,262
Communications technologies	252	0	14	14	0	27	14	74	3	120	295	0	10	10	0	16	15	99	5	150
Computer and information sciences and support services	18,286	33	1,982	1,964	18	1,275	707	3,378	293	10,618	17,439	35	2,404	2,387	17	1,470	848	3,891	334	8,457
Education	120,914	694	4,250	4,030	220	13,699	16,480	79,913	3,048	2,830	119,623	586	4,563	4,325	238	13,399	16,575	78,714	3,066	2,720
Engineering	13,111	19	1,322	1,312	10	413	758	3,903	316	6,380	12,286	26	1,498	1,494	4	414	911	4,399	388	4,650

Engineering technologies³	2,153	9	151	149	2	175	157	780	46	835	2,162	7	209	201	8	164	180	795	43	764
English language and literature/letters	5,510	28	195	181	14	439	552	3,833	245	218	5,722	31	209	208	1	438	656	3,974	223	191
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	2,732	18	119	113	6	336	292	1,727	86	154	2,546	16	96	92	4	282	308	1,665	73	106
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,875	5	71	71	0	60	375	861	42	461	1,885	6	86	85	1	78	412	815	56	432
Health professions and related programs	116,987	627	9,621	9,322	299	15,966	12,142	72,481	3,177	2,973	121,565	554	10,532	10,229	303	16,475	13,567	74,201	3,384	2,852

Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	5,909	43	179	160	19	1,524	895	2,942	215	111	6,313	43	220	198	22	1,509	1,043	3,123	228	147
Legal professions and studies	4,209	95	225	220	5	699	489	1,607	111	983	7,141	139	308	290	18	753	588	1,874	156	3,323
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	1,249	4	50	49	1	188	115	750	58	84	1,189	7	52	50	2	171	110	716	49	84
Library science	4,560	16	143	141	2	243	473	3,523	125	37	4,835	22	160	153	7	272	491	3,701	157	32
Mathematics and statistics	5,208	2	387	386	1	111	193	1,218	75	3,222	4,670	2	468	468	0	114	242	1,250	71	2,523

Military technologies and applied sciences	299	0	18	17	1	43	21	185	18	14	280	1	9	8	1	35	46	165	9	15
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	7,848	26	637	619	18	791	796	3,887	259	1,452	9,176	31	803	789	14	757	933	4,691	311	1,650
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology	4,325	18	84	81	3	626	414	2,758	154	271	4,464	18	121	114	7	626	535	2,745	198	221
Philosophy and religious studies	662	4	41	40	1	74	55	409	17	62	698	2	32	31	1	61	39	454	22	88
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,712	3	197	195	2	100	227	1,447	94	644	2,785	8	205	204	1	115	255	1,536	91	575

Precision production	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	5	8	0	1	1	0	0	1	3	1	2
Psychology	25,727	101	1,325	1,251	74	3,455	4,219	14,729	948	950	27,599	114	1,465	1,405	60	3,777	4,862	15,379	1,077	925
Public administration and social services	38,989	239	1,537	1,456	81	7,837	6,634	20,041	1,318	1,383	39,614	210	1,543	1,467	76	7,761	6,987	20,615	1,348	1,150
Social sciences and history	10,034	31	498	491	7	869	1,059	4,811	343	2,423	10,642	30	609	599	10	861	1,224	5,180	361	2,377
Social sciences	8,439	22	465	460	5	780	919	3,613	289	2,351	8,957	25	577	568	9	772	1,049	3,936	299	2,299
History	1,595	9	33	31	2	89	140	1,198	54	72	1,685	5	32	31	1	89	175	1,244	62	78

Theology and religious vocations	5,019	16	253	244	9	979	381	2,905	148	337	4,988	14	243	229	14	977	398	2,923	123	310
Transportation and materials moving	138	0	9	8	1	11	7	77	6	28	144	0	5	5	0	10	18	83	6	22
Visual and performing arts	9,322	21	554	543	11	651	760	4,501	317	2,518	9,417	33	589	574	15	636	849	4,753	341	2,216
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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