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| Table 263. | Master's degrees conferred by institutions of higher education, by racial/ethnic group, major field of study, and sex of student: 1993-94 |
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| Total | Men | Women
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| | White, |Black, | | Asian/ |American| | | White, |Black, | | Asian/ |American| | | White, |Black, | | Asian/ |American|
Major field of study | Total | non- | non- | His- |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-| Total | non- | non- | His- |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-| Total | non- | non- | His- |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-
| |Hispanic| His- | panic |Islander|Alaskan | dent | |Hispanic| His- | panic |Islander|Alaskan | dent | |Hispanic| His- | panic |Islander|Alaskan | dent
| | | panic | | | Native | alien | | | panic | | | Native | alien | | | panic | | | Native | alien
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22
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All fields, total\1\ ..........................| 385,419 |288,288 |21,937 |11,913 | 15,267 | 1,697 | 46,317 |175,355 |123,854 | 7,413 | 5,113 | 8,225 | 691 | 30,059 |210,064 |164,434 |14,524 | 6,800 | 7,042 | 1,006 | 16,258
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Agriculture and natural resources ...............| 4,119 | 2,767 | 116 | 190 | 96 | 12 | 938 | 2,515 | 1,670 | 72 | 109 | 43 | 9 | 612 | 1,604 | 1,097 | 44 | 81 | 53 | 3 | 326
Architecture and related programs ...............| 3,943 | 2,676 | 144 | 135 | 221 | 12 | 755 | 2,428 | 1,640 | 87 | 78 | 115 | 6 | 502 | 1,515 | 1,036 | 57 | 57 | 106 | 6 | 253
Area, ethnic, and cultural studies ..............| 1,633 | 1,129 | 113 | 96 | 103 | 17 | 175 | 768 | 542 | 46 | 48 | 50 | 9 | 73 | 865 | 587 | 67 | 48 | 53 | 8 | 102
Biological sciences/life sciences ...............| 5,196 | 3,621 | 149 | 126 | 347 | 18 | 935 | 2,465 | 1,722 | 50 | 60 | 157 | 13 | 463 | 2,731 | 1,899 | 99 | 66 | 190 | 5 | 472
Business management and administrative services..| 93,437 | 67,669 | 5,213 | 2,568 | 4,625 | 299 | 13,063 | 59,335 | 43,591 | 2,519 | 1,590 | 2,752 | 175 | 8,708 | 34,102 | 24,078 | 2,694 | 978 | 1,873 | 124 | 4,355
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Communications ..................................| 5,005 | 3,609 | 343 | 107 | 136 | 21 | 789 | 1,870 | 1,378 | 92 | 35 | 41 | 18 | 306 | 3,135 | 2,231 | 251 | 72 | 95 | 3 | 483
Communications technologies .....................| 414 | 263 | 21 | 10 | 13 | 2 | 105 | 228 | 158 | 9 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 54 | 186 | 105 | 12 | 7 | 9 | 2 | 51
Computer and information sciences ...............| 10,416 | 4,605 | 391 | 176 | 1,317 | 19 | 3,908 | 7,724 | 3,570 | 221 | 126 | 847 | 13 | 2,947 | 2,692 | 1,035 | 170 | 50 | 470 | 6 | 961
Education .......................................| 98,938 | 83,065 | 7,199 | 3,601 | 1,534 | 605 | 2,934 | 23,008 | 19,031 | 1,574 | 918 | 405 | 166 | 914 | 75,930 | 64,034 | 5,625 | 2,683 | 1,129 | 439 | 2,020
Engineering .....................................| 28,621 | 15,327 | 623 | 670 | 2,586 | 64 | 9,351 | 24,218 | 12,980 | 448 | 545 | 2,050 | 51 | 8,144 | 4,403 | 2,347 | 175 | 125 | 536 | 13 | 1,207
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Engineering-related technologies ................| 1,133 | 820 | 59 | 30 | 37 | 1 | 186 | 936 | 671 | 45 | 27 | 32 | 0 | 161 | 197 | 149 | 14 | 3 | 5 | 1 | 25
English language and literature/letters .........| 7,885 | 6,781 | 248 | 195 | 202 | 39 | 420 | 2,712 | 2,369 | 53 | 70 | 64 | 15 | 141 | 5,173 | 4,412 | 195 | 125 | 138 | 24 | 279
Foreign languages and literatures................| 3,288 | 2,158 | 49 | 307 | 137 | 9 | 628 | 1,087 | 737 | 16 | 99 | 34 | 7 | 194 | 2,201 | 1,421 | 33 | 208 | 103 | 2 | 434
Health professions and related sciences .........| 28,025 | 23,175 | 1,496 | 710 | 1,007 | 137 | 1,500 | 5,814 | 4,446 | 232 | 200 | 311 | 27 | 598 | 22,211 | 18,729 | 1,264 | 510 | 696 | 110 | 902
Home economics and vocational home economics ....| 2,421 | 1,928 | 139 | 56 | 70 | 7 | 221 | 405 | 308 | 20 | 10 | 11 | 3 | 53 | 2,016 | 1,620 | 119 | 46 | 59 | 4 | 168
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Law and legal studies ...........................| 2,432 | 1,218 | 47 | 76 | 61 | 7 | 1,023 | 1,608 | 787 | 24 | 52 | 43 | 5 | 697 | 824 | 431 | 23 | 24 | 18 | 2 | 326
Liberal arts and sciences, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
general studies, and humanities ...............| 2,496 | 2,125 | 125 | 48 | 34 | 14 | 150 | 913 | 767 | 44 | 14 | 15 | 7 | 66 | 1,583 | 1,358 | 81 | 34 | 19 | 7 | 84
Library science .................................| 5,116 | 4,409 | 244 | 92 | 150 | 14 | 207 | 1,040 | 871 | 53 | 26 | 32 | 2 | 56 | 4,076 | 3,538 | 191 | 66 | 118 | 12 | 151
Mathematics .....................................| 4,100 | 2,559 | 118 | 71 | 250 | 6 | 1,096 | 2,536 | 1,546 | 68 | 42 | 137 | 5 | 738 | 1,564 | 1,013 | 50 | 29 | 113 | 1 | 358
Multi/interdisciplinary studies .................| 2,464 | 2,024 | 111 | 95 | 62 | 14 | 158 | 1,194 | 968 | 39 | 46 | 40 | 3 | 98 | 1,270 | 1,056 | 72 | 49 | 22 | 11 | 60
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Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies ..| 1,625 | 1,361 | 78 | 22 | 28 | 8 | 128 | 845 | 696 | 38 | 14 | 17 | 2 | 78 | 780 | 665 | 40 | 8 | 11 | 6 | 50
Philosophy and religion .........................| 1,350 | 1,102 | 38 | 53 | 38 | 3 | 116 | 837 | 683 | 19 | 28 | 24 | 3 | 80 | 513 | 419 | 19 | 25 | 14 | 0 | 36
Physical sciences and science technologies.......| 5,679 | 3,354 | 136 | 102 | 301 | 17 | 1,769 | 4,018 | 2,419 | 80 | 70 | 195 | 14 | 1,240 | 1,661 | 935 | 56 | 32 | 106 | 3 | 529
Precision production trades......................| 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0
Protective services .............................| 1,437 | 1,092 | 220 | 48 | 23 | 7 | 47 | 902 | 706 | 110 | 33 | 16 | 3 | 34 | 535 | 386 | 110 | 15 | 7 | 4 | 13
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Psychology ......................................| 12,181 | 10,333 | 659 | 483 | 280 | 65 | 361 | 3,401 | 2,877 | 167 | 130 | 77 | 20 | 130 | 8,780 | 7,456 | 492 | 353 | 203 | 45 | 231
Public administration and services ..............| 21,833 | 16,891 | 2,506 | 990 | 495 | 143 | 808 | 6,406 | 4,848 | 612 | 300 | 161 | 42 | 443 | 15,427 | 12,043 | 1,894 | 690 | 334 | 101 | 365
R.O.T.C. and military technologies ..............| 124 | 111 | 4 | 4 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 117 | 106 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 7 | 5 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0
Social sciences and history......................| 14,561 | 10,247 | 737 | 459 | 481 | 71 | 2,566 | 8,152 | 5,712 | 336 | 237 | 246 | 38 | 1,583 | 6,409 | 4,535 | 401 | 222 | 235 | 33 | 983
Theological studies/religious vocations .........| 4,956 | 3,773 | 259 | 125 | 226 | 10 | 563 | 3,034 | 2,256 | 182 | 63 | 150 | 4 | 379 | 1,922 | 1,517 | 77 | 62 | 76 | 6 | 184
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Transportation and material moving ..............| 664 | 598 | 25 | 15 | 15 | 4 | 7 | 610 | 551 | 21 | 15 | 13 | 4 | 6 | 54 | 47 | 4 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1
Visual and performing arts ......................| 9,925 | 7,496 | 327 | 253 | 388 | 51 | 1,410 | 4,229 | 3,248 | 133 | 122 | 139 | 26 | 561 | 5,696 | 4,248 | 194 | 131 | 249 | 25 | 849
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| \1\Reported racial/ethnic distributions of students by level of degree, field of degree, and sex were used to estimate race/ethnicity for students whose race/ethnicity was not reported. Excludes 730 men and 921 women whose racial/ethnic group and field of study were not available.
NOTE.--To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the IPEDS "Completions" survey: "Agriculture and natural resources" includes Agribusiness and agriculture production, Agricultural sciences, and Conservation and renewable natural resources; and "Business management and administrative services" includes Business and management, Business and office, Marketing and distribution, and Consumer and personal services. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Completions" survey. (This table was prepared February 1996.)
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