Table 266.

Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and major field of study: 2003–04

Major field of study	Total							Males							Females
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non-resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non-resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non-residentalien
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
All fields, total	665,301	456,047	81,183	72,270	33,149	8,119	14,533	260,033	183,819	25,961	27,828	13,907	2,740	5,778	405,268	272,228	55,222	44,442	19,242	5,379	8,755
Agriculture and natural resources	6,283	5,887	61	117	45	92	81	3,928	3,696	42	69	24	56	41	2,355	2,191	19	48	21	36	40
Architecture and related services	492	330	35	85	12	2	28	180	98	22	44	7	1	8	312	232	13	41	5	1	20
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	105	20	21	13	2	46	3	40	9	7	6	0	18	0	65	11	14	7	2	28	3
Biological and biomedical sciences	1,456	912	115	185	147	48	49	471	316	34	55	42	9	15	985	596	81	130	105	39	34
Business	106,304	68,615	16,359	10,764	5,963	1,304	3,299	35,720	24,526	4,247	3,427	1,972	371	1,177	70,584	44,089	12,112	7,337	3,991	933	2,122
Communications, journalism, and related programs	2,444	1,779	266	204	81	28	86	1,188	902	106	105	30	19	26	1,256	877	160	99	51	9	60
Communications technologies	3,401	2,506	294	322	124	58	97	1,926	1,409	166	210	65	34	42	1,475	1,097	128	112	59	24	55
Computer and information sciences	41,845	27,160	6,485	4,084	2,666	412	1,038	28,717	19,540	3,706	2,839	1,774	242	616	13,128	7,620	2,779	1,245	892	170	422
Construction trades	3,560	3,095	186	150	70	54	5	3,360	2,940	177	137	63	41	2	200	155	9	13	7	13	3
Education	12,465	7,931	2,066	1,689	199	457	123	2,198	1,452	287	298	49	87	25	10,267	6,479	1,779	1,391	150	370	98
Engineering	2,737	1,573	298	530	175	43	118	2,160	1,277	227	396	138	25	97	577	296	71	134	37	18	21
Engineering technologies1	36,915	26,158	4,033	3,983	1,848	429	464	31,452	22,569	3,176	3,442	1,563	328	374	5,463	3,589	857	541	285	101	90
English language and literature/letters	828	531	73	140	52	10	22	266	158	21	50	29	3	5	562	373	52	90	23	7	17
Family and consumer sciences	9,478	4,991	2,153	1,677	330	171	156	394	229	63	63	18	9	12	9,084	4,762	2,090	1,614	312	162	144
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,047	723	51	192	24	18	39	180	114	6	43	11	3	3	867	609	45	149	13	15	36
Health professions and related clinical sciences	106,208	78,649	13,617	8,219	3,771	1,088	864	13,837	9,660	1,584	1,454	802	154	183	92,371	68,989	12,033	6,765	2,969	934	681
Legal professions and studies	9,466	6,410	1,702	1,030	161	120	43	939	580	201	116	21	14	7	8,527	5,830	1,501	914	140	106	36
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	227,650	154,929	23,837	27,705	12,650	2,547	5,982	83,216	57,967	7,674	9,462	4,935	789	2,389	144,434	96,962	16,163	18,243	7,715	1,758	3,593
Library science	114	97	1	5	7	3	1	13	11	0	2	0	0	0	101	86	1	3	7	3	1
Mathematics and statistics	801	461	38	138	106	11	47	502	294	23	87	60	5	33	299	167	15	51	46	6	14
Mechanics and repair technologies	12,553	9,705	829	1,165	607	147	100	11,825	9,240	735	1,083	543	134	90	728	465	94	82	64	13	10
Military technologies	293	176	73	32	9	3	0	240	152	52	26	8	2	0	53	24	21	6	1	1	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	14,794	9,863	1,463	1,673	1,311	124	360	6,404	4,329	670	671	542	45	147	8,390	5,534	793	1,002	769	79	213
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	923	717	98	48	21	13	26	540	408	67	28	15	7	15	383	309	31	20	6	6	11
Philosophy and religious studies	404	335	14	29	18	0	8	104	72	7	16	8	0	1	300	263	7	13	10	0	7
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,676	1,817	223	252	244	32	108	1,540	1,078	113	157	124	16	52	1,136	739	110	95	120	16	56
Precision production	1,968	1,733	63	88	45	34	5	1,828	1,615	59	82	42	25	5	140	118	4	6	3	9	0
Psychology	1,887	1,206	166	354	80	37	44	434	272	39	80	22	9	12	1,453	934	127	274	58	28	32
Public administration and social service professions	3,728	1,957	966	558	112	90	45	444	195	130	85	15	14	5	3,284	1,762	836	473	97	76	40
Security and protective services	20,573	14,784	2,494	2,491	484	267	53	12,002	9,397	861	1,298	312	111	23	8,571	5,387	1,633	1,193	172	156	30
Social sciences and history	6,245	3,580	749	1,155	429	157	175	2,088	1,244	214	377	151	43	59	4,157	2,336	535	778	278	114	116
Social sciences	5,875	3,304	735	1,094	417	152	173	1,883	1,090	205	340	148	42	58	3,992	2,214	530	754	269	110	115
History	370	276	14	61	12	5	2	205	154	9	37	3	1	1	165	122	5	24	9	4	1
Theology and religious vocations	492	338	112	11	8	7	16	220	134	61	8	4	2	11	272	204	51	3	4	5	5
Transportation and materials moving	1,217	921	69	135	45	12	35	1,035	802	52	109	42	8	22	182	119	17	26	3	4	13
Visual and performing arts	23,949	16,158	2,173	3,047	1,303	255	1,013	10,642	7,134	1,132	1,503	476	116	281	13,307	9,024	1,041	1,544	827	139	732

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately. NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin. 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. To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the IPEDS Fall survey: "Agriculture and natural resources" includes Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences and Natural resources and conservation; and "Business" includes Business management, marketing, and related support services and Personal and culinary services. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2003–04 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2004. (This table was prepared July 2005.)