Table 269.

Bachelor'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-resident alien
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	1,399,542	1,026,114	131,241	94,644	92,073	10,638	44,832	595,425	445,483	43,851	37,288	41,360	4,244	23,199	804,117	580,631	87,390	57,356	50,713	6,394	21,633
Agriculture and natural resources	22,835	20,216	657	760	653	224	325	11,889	10,753	272	344	250	118	152	10,946	9,463	385	416	403	106	173
Architecture and related services	8,838	6,604	390	674	698	43	429	5,059	3,896	214	384	324	23	218	3,779	2,708	176	290	374	20	211
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	7,181	4,143	960	870	873	167	168	2,162	1,247	280	248	277	61	49	5,019	2,896	680	622	596	106	119
Biological and biomedical sciences	61,509	42,926	5,081	3,641	7,838	424	1,599	23,248	16,838	1,321	1,331	2,978	156	624	38,261	26,088	3,760	2,310	4,860	268	975
Business	307,149	213,892	33,404	20,942	22,185	2,048	14,678	152,513	112,686	11,959	9,489	9,764	917	7,698	154,636	101,206	21,445	11,453	12,421	1,131	6,980
Communications, journalism, and related programs	70,968	55,423	6,572	4,174	2,866	378	1,555	24,591	19,654	2,088	1,299	869	141	540	46,377	35,769	4,484	2,875	1,997	237	1,015
Communications technologies	2,034	1,547	201	117	110	20	39	1,222	923	100	82	82	15	20	812	624	101	35	28	5	19
Computer and information sciences	59,488	34,836	6,945	3,658	8,496	494	5,059	44,585	28,206	3,858	2,654	5,919	378	3,570	14,903	6,630	3,087	1,004	2,577	116	1,489
Construction trades	119	103	10	5	1	0	0	107	99	2	5	1	0	0	12	4	8	0	0	0	0
Education	106,278	91,279	6,457	4,792	1,759	990	1,001	22,802	19,463	1,571	945	333	241	249	83,476	71,816	4,886	3,847	1,426	749	752
Engineering	63,558	43,615	3,402	3,568	8,046	350	4,577	50,557	35,764	2,239	2,727	5,917	256	3,654	13,001	7,851	1,163	841	2,129	94	923
Engineering technologies1	14,391	10,444	1,557	946	732	201	511	12,689	9,405	1,217	839	624	171	433	1,702	1,039	340	107	108	30	78
English language and literature/letters	53,984	43,656	4,168	3,067	2,175	371	547	16,792	13,902	1,007	992	611	129	151	37,192	29,754	3,161	2,075	1,564	242	396
Family and consumer sciences	19,172	15,066	2,058	874	775	161	238	2,298	1,719	297	114	102	19	47	16,874	13,347	1,761	760	673	142	191
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	17,754	12,692	761	2,843	935	97	426	5,215	3,836	176	786	277	35	105	12,539	8,856	585	2,057	658	62	321
Health professions and related clinical sciences	73,934	56,033	8,527	4,129	3,758	577	910	10,017	7,247	1,037	739	734	86	174	63,917	48,786	7,490	3,390	3,024	491	736
Legal professions and studies	2,841	1,931	435	241	182	31	21	896	617	115	76	73	8	7	1,945	1,314	320	165	109	23	14
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	42,106	29,164	5,255	4,593	1,875	509	710	13,336	9,903	1,504	983	529	161	256	28,770	19,261	3,751	3,610	1,346	348	454
Library science	72	69	3	0	0	0	0	4	4	0	0	0	0	0	68	65	3	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	13,327	9,861	805	676	1,283	62	640	7,203	5,394	344	367	697	39	362	6,124	4,467	461	309	586	23	278
Mechanics and repair technologies	159	131	5	4	3	6	10	149	121	5	4	3	6	10	10	10	0	0	0	0	0
Military technologies	10	10	0	0	0	0	0	9	9	0	0	0	0	0	1	1	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	29,162	20,743	2,651	2,872	2,047	247	602	9,537	6,915	800	668	821	73	260	19,625	13,828	1,851	2,204	1,226	174	342
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	22,164	17,621	1,996	1,463	569	165	350	11,289	8,761	1,161	808	282	86	191	10,875	8,860	835	655	287	79	159
Philosophy and religious studies	11,152	9,234	564	540	574	68	172	7,046	5,887	321	345	352	37	104	4,106	3,347	243	195	222	31	68
Physical sciences and science technologies	17,983	13,973	1,097	773	1,384	113	643	10,476	8,476	419	441	710	61	369	7,507	5,497	678	332	674	52	274
Precision production	61	58	0	0	1	0	2	38	36	0	0	1	0	1	23	22	0	0	0	0	1
Psychology	82,098	59,480	8,985	6,975	4,555	628	1,475	18,193	13,436	1,671	1,541	1,105	135	305	63,905	46,044	7,314	5,434	3,450	493	1,170
Public administration and social service professions	20,552	12,845	4,642	2,002	642	220	201	3,793	2,409	752	403	150	36	43	16,759	10,436	3,890	1,599	492	184	158
Security and protective services	28,175	18,964	5,080	2,960	731	266	174	14,195	10,434	1,866	1,327	382	114	72	13,980	8,530	3,214	1,633	349	152	102
Social sciences and history	150,357	108,775	13,723	11,190	11,197	1,158	4,314	73,834	56,266	4,985	4,816	5,141	483	2,143	76,523	52,509	8,738	6,374	6,056	675	2,171
Social sciences	120,549	83,663	12,163	9,538	10,130	936	4,119	56,431	41,275	4,229	3,867	4,653	365	2,042	64,118	42,388	7,934	5,671	5,477	571	2,077
History	29,808	25,112	1,560	1,652	1,067	222	195	17,403	14,991	756	949	488	118	101	12,405	10,121	804	703	579	104	94
Theology and religious vocations	8,126	6,882	466	342	182	47	207	5,381	4,627	277	201	117	23	136	2,745	2,255	189	141	65	24	71
Transportation and materials moving	4,824	3,995	249	242	153	33	152	4,263	3,524	216	218	141	28	136	561	471	33	24	12	5	16
Visual and performing arts	77,181	59,903	4,135	4,711	4,795	540	3,097	30,037	23,026	1,777	2,112	1,794	208	1,120	47,144	36,877	2,358	2,599	3,001	332	1,977

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.)