Doctor'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 324.30.Doctor'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	85,363	280	9,413	9,291	122	5,520	6,661	47,086	2,290	14,113	87,772	277	9,513	9,402	111	5,852	7,125	47,464	2,533	15,008
Agriculture and natural resources¹	1,379	6	59	58	1	36	80	848	29	321	1,365	4	50	50	0	42	89	814	39	327
Architecture and related services	132	0	8	7	1	2	6	41	2	73	122	1	10	9	1	7	4	35	4	61
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	98	2	5	5	0	16	12	39	0	24	117	0	7	7	0	25	15	42	2	26
Biological and biomedical sciences	3,510	9	296	292	4	98	236	1,888	99	884	3,880	11	363	359	4	139	306	2,000	114	947
Business²	1,924	7	95	93	2	432	133	799	41	417	2,245	12	133	127	6	552	140	923	24	461

Communication, journalism, and related programs	238	1	10	10	0	15	11	121	6	74	204	0	8	8	0	2	10	120	6	58
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	1,923	1	130	129	1	93	66	484	20	1,129	2,074	2	150	148	2	110	61	504	32	1,215
Education	4,130	23	150	134	16	828	382	2,388	91	268	4,311	26	166	157	9	872	456	2,450	107	234
Engineering	8,043	6	439	437	2	118	256	2,125	101	4,998	8,858	4	504	504	0	137	275	2,351	150	5,437

Engineering technologies³	144	1	16	16	0	10	1	61	0	55	112	0	18	18	0	14	2	34	4	40
English language and literature/letters	419	2	14	13	1	21	31	287	11	53	440	0	16	16	0	17	34	316	6	51
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	55	0	1	1	0	8	4	28	2	12	59	0	3	3	0	9	1	32	0	14
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	440	2	10	10	0	7	56	189	10	166	449	1	14	14	0	5	41	198	9	181
Health professions and related programs	33,146	111	6,583	6,521	62	1,997	2,807	19,519	1,061	1,068	33,055	107	6,353	6,297	56	2,013	2,969	19,450	1,147	1,016

Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	109	0	1	1	0	22	5	77	1	3	135	2	2	2	0	33	15	70	2	11
Legal professions and studies	16,859	78	943	917	26	1,024	1,832	11,873	536	573	16,543	73	1,005	979	26	994	1,872	11,486	543	570
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	35	0	1	1	0	7	4	16	1	6	39	0	1	1	0	4	3	28	0	3
Library science	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	2	0	0	6	0	0	0	0	1	0	4	0	1
Mathematics and statistics	1,412	1	70	70	0	17	54	476	24	770	1,570	2	88	88	0	26	55	530	38	831

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	431	2	22	22	0	29	28	221	4	125	472	2	35	34	1	41	30	200	8	156
Parks, recreation, leisure, fitness, and kinesiology	172	0	3	3	0	10	10	109	8	32	155	0	8	8	0	12	5	91	5	34
Philosophy and religious studies	435	1	16	16	0	22	28	285	9	74	425	0	19	18	1	19	24	277	13	73
Physical sciences and science technologies	3,694	7	169	169	0	58	165	1,672	77	1,546	4,221	5	221	220	1	59	216	1,817	94	1,809

Precision production	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Psychology	1,574	6	92	89	3	148	164	1,014	64	86	1,581	9	86	85	1	150	167	1,008	57	104
Public administration and social services	431	3	27	26	1	106	38	180	16	61	482	2	15	14	1	113	34	229	7	82
Social sciences and history	2,210	3	80	80	0	77	120	1,010	40	880	2,333	6	99	98	1	76	150	1,076	51	875
Social sciences	1,832	3	74	74	0	63	91	767	30	804	1,947	2	90	89	1	60	120	816	39	820
History	378	0	6	6	0	14	29	243	10	76	386	4	9	9	0	16	30	260	12	55

Theology and religious vocations	1,575	7	140	138	2	293	81	824	19	211	1,672	7	106	106	0	350	99	888	41	181
Transportation and materials moving	16	0	0	0	0	1	0	10	0	5	16	0	0	0	0	0	1	12	0	3
Visual and performing arts	827	1	33	33	0	25	51	500	18	199	831	1	33	32	1	30	51	479	30	207
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. Includes Ph.D., Ed.D., and comparable degrees at the doctoral level, as well as such degrees as M.D., D.D.S., and law degrees. 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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