Master's degrees conferred by institutions of higher education, by racial/ethnic group, major field of study, and sex of student: 1995-96

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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\ ..........................|  405,521 |297,558 |25,801 |14,412 | 18,161 |  1,778 | 47,811 |178,661 |124,514 | 8,442 | 5,833 |  9,373 |    704 | 29,795 |226,860 |173,044 |17,359 | 8,579 |  8,788 |  1,074 | 18,016
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Agriculture and natural resources ...............|    4,569 |  3,334 |   116 |   101 |    124 |     15 |    879 |  2,650 |  1,922 |    63 |    59 |     50 |      6 |    550 |  1,919 |  1,412 |    53 |    42 |     74 |      9 |    329
Architecture and related programs ...............|    3,993 |  2,664 |   142 |   187 |    248 |     11 |    741 |  2,361 |  1,607 |    73 |    97 |    136 |      6 |    442 |  1,632 |  1,057 |    69 |    90 |    112 |      5 |    299
Area, ethnic, and cultural studies ..............|    1,713 |  1,198 |   115 |    99 |     98 |     24 |    179 |    798 |    558 |    38 |    60 |     42 |      9 |     91 |    915 |    640 |    77 |    39 |     56 |     15 |     88
Biological sciences/life sciences ...............|    6,157 |  4,262 |   207 |   161 |    533 |     17 |    977 |  2,902 |  2,044 |    79 |    69 |    246 |      9 |    455 |  3,255 |  2,218 |   128 |    92 |    287 |      8 |    522
Business ........................................|   93,982 | 65,685 | 5,753 | 2,938 |  5,417 |    302 | 13,887 | 58,685 | 41,964 | 2,611 | 1,800 |  3,194 |    184 |  8,932 | 35,297 | 23,721 | 3,142 | 1,138 |  2,223 |    118 |  4,955
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Communications ..................................|    5,080 |  3,471 |   406 |   146 |    170 |     14 |    873 |  1,900 |  1,326 |   108 |    60 |     55 |      7 |    344 |  3,180 |  2,145 |   298 |    86 |    115 |      7 |    529
Communications technologies .....................|      524 |    297 |    26 |    15 |     20 |      4 |    162 |    271 |    167 |    12 |     8 |      7 |      2 |     75 |    253 |    130 |    14 |     7 |     13 |      2 |     87
Computer and information sciences ...............|   10,151 |  4,382 |   406 |   178 |  1,321 |     25 |  3,839 |  7,444 |  3,384 |   221 |   129 |    829 |     18 |  2,863 |  2,707 |    998 |   185 |    49 |    492 |      7 |    976
Construction trades .............................|        0 |      0 |     0 |     0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |     0 |     0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |      0 |     0 |     0 |      0 |      0 |      0
Education .......................................|  106,253 | 87,310 | 8,557 | 4,628 |  1,833 |    598 |  3,327 | 25,214 | 20,376 | 1,991 | 1,110 |    464 |    159 |  1,114 | 81,039 | 66,934 | 6,566 | 3,518 |  1,369 |    439 |  2,213
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Engineering .....................................|   27,441 | 14,250 |   704 |   707 |  2,755 |     59 |  8,966 | 22,735 | 11,972 |   484 |   546 |  2,103 |     54 |  7,576 |  4,706 |  2,278 |   220 |   161 |    652 |      5 |  1,390
Engineering-related technologies ................|    1,125 |    843 |    62 |    36 |     45 |      3 |    136 |    906 |    682 |    44 |    27 |     37 |      2 |    114 |    219 |    161 |    18 |     9 |      8 |      1 |     22
English language and literature/letters .........|    7,893 |  6,736 |   292 |   228 |    223 |     48 |    366 |  2,814 |  2,410 |    85 |    95 |     68 |     20 |    136 |  5,079 |  4,326 |   207 |   133 |    155 |     28 |    230
Foreign languages and literatures................|    3,124 |  2,054 |    55 |   322 |    117 |     12 |    564 |  1,017 |    692 |    23 |    99 |     31 |      4 |    168 |  2,107 |  1,362 |    32 |   223 |     86 |      8 |    396
Health professions and related sciences .........|   33,398 | 27,008 | 1,875 |   996 |  1,832 |    156 |  1,531 |  7,021 |  5,122 |   311 |   235 |    670 |     41 |    642 | 26,377 | 21,886 | 1,564 |   761 |  1,162 |    115 |    889
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Home economics and vocational home economics ....|    2,917 |  2,293 |   192 |    94 |     74 |     24 |    240 |    496 |    374 |    38 |    15 |      9 |      6 |     54 |  2,421 |  1,919 |   154 |    79 |     65 |     18 |    186
Law and legal studies ...........................|    2,751 |  1,245 |   119 |    79 |    100 |     10 |  1,198 |  1,751 |    791 |    53 |    56 |     59 |      6 |    786 |  1,000 |    454 |    66 |    23 |     41 |      4 |    412
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,      |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
  and humanities ................................|    2,778 |  2,347 |   136 |    70 |     54 |     10 |    161 |    961 |    791 |    46 |    24 |     21 |      4 |     75 |  1,817 |  1,556 |    90 |    46 |     33 |      6 |     86
Library science .................................|    5,099 |  4,411 |   211 |   116 |    146 |     15 |    200 |  1,071 |    928 |    31 |    34 |     31 |      2 |     45 |  4,028 |  3,483 |   180 |    82 |    115 |     13 |    155
Mathematics .....................................|    4,031 |  2,430 |   165 |    92 |    256 |      7 |  1,081 |  2,465 |  1,459 |    86 |    59 |    145 |      6 |    710 |  1,566 |    971 |    79 |    33 |    111 |      1 |    371
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Multi/interdisciplinary studies .................|    2,347 |  1,865 |   119 |    73 |     85 |     11 |    194 |  1,082 |    848 |    40 |    38 |     31 |      7 |    118 |  1,265 |  1,017 |    79 |    35 |     54 |      4 |     76
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies ..|    1,751 |  1,483 |   124 |    36 |     17 |      8 |     83 |    911 |    773 |    54 |    22 |      9 |      3 |     50 |    840 |    710 |    70 |    14 |      8 |      5 |     33
Philosophy and religion .........................|    1,302 |  1,067 |    37 |    39 |     34 |      2 |    123 |    845 |    682 |    21 |    26 |     26 |      0 |     90 |    457 |    385 |    16 |    13 |      8 |      2 |     33
Physical sciences and science technologies.......|    5,847 |  3,548 |   123 |   102 |    327 |     10 |  1,737 |  3,966 |  2,459 |    63 |    69 |    182 |      6 |  1,187 |  1,881 |  1,089 |    60 |    33 |    145 |      4 |    550
Precision production trades......................|        8 |      6 |     1 |     0 |      0 |      0 |      1 |      6 |      4 |     1 |     0 |      0 |      0 |      1 |      2 |      2 |     0 |     0 |      0 |      0 |      0
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Protective services .............................|    1,812 |  1,437 |   240 |    64 |     25 |     11 |     35 |  1,151 |    957 |   118 |    30 |     14 |      9 |     23 |    661 |    480 |   122 |    34 |     11 |      2 |     12
Psychology ......................................|   13,792 | 11,249 |   992 |   682 |    346 |     84 |    439 |  3,813 |  3,157 |   254 |   173 |     82 |     23 |    124 |  9,979 |  8,092 |   738 |   509 |    264 |     61 |    315
Public administration and services ..............|   24,229 | 17,968 | 3,004 | 1,267 |    713 |    165 |  1,112 |  6,927 |  4,989 |   753 |   378 |    227 |     49 |    531 | 17,302 | 12,979 | 2,251 |   889 |    486 |    116 |    581
R.O.T.C. and military technologies ..............|      136 |    127 |     5 |     0 |      1 |      0 |      3 |    132 |    123 |     5 |     0 |      1 |      0 |      3 |      4 |      4 |     0 |     0 |      0 |      0 |      0
Social sciences and history......................|   15,012 | 10,339 |   911 |   511 |    530 |     80 |  2,641 |  8,093 |  5,637 |   380 |   273 |    269 |     32 |  1,502 |  6,919 |  4,702 |   531 |   238 |    261 |     48 |  1,139
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Theological studies and religious vocations .....|    5,107 |  3,858 |   298 |    95 |    242 |      9 |    605 |  3,056 |  2,314 |   159 |    50 |    136 |      6 |    391 |  2,051 |  1,544 |   139 |    45 |    106 |      3 |    214
Transportation and material moving workers ......|      919 |    830 |    26 |    26 |     19 |      5 |     13 |    856 |    784 |    20 |    22 |     17 |      5 |      8 |     63 |     46 |     6 |     4 |      2 |      0 |      5
Visual and performing arts ......................|   10,280 |  7,561 |   382 |   324 |    456 |     39 |  1,518 |  4,361 |  3,218 |   177 |   170 |    182 |     19 |    595 |  5,919 |  4,343 |   205 |   154 |    274 |     20 |    923
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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 420 men and 360 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 Agricultural business and production, Agricultural sciences, and Conservation and renewable natural resources; and "Business" includes Business management and administrative services, Marketing operations/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 June 1998.)
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