Table 327.

Associate's degrees conferred to females by degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2009-10 and 2010-11

Field of study	2009-10							2010-11
	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent alien	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/Pacific Islander			American Indian/Alaska Native	Two or more races	Non- resi- dent alien
												Total	Asian	Pacific Islander
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
All fields, total	526,536	336,791	77,769	69,979	25,757	6,713	9,527	581,018	366,032	87,107	77,934	26,695	24,031	2,664	6,449	7,018	9,783
Agriculture and natural resources	2,111	1,883	25	88	23	80	12	2,336	2,120	21	86	28	24	4	42	22	17
Architecture and related services	286	192	10	53	23	0	8	259	164	10	53	19	17	2	2	2	9
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	124	31	11	21	1	56	4	149	35	19	23	2	2	0	62	3	5
Biological and biomedical sciences	1,813	959	170	350	243	38	53	2,129	1,080	189	434	311	284	27	39	22	54
Business	85,203	51,336	15,532	10,015	4,673	1,195	2,452	88,815	52,515	16,702	10,341	4,582	4,132	450	1,088	1,084	2,503
Communication, journalism, and related programs	1,512	959	158	240	71	15	69	1,640	1,002	149	298	93	84	9	11	14	73
Communications technologies	1,381	1,001	145	109	72	21	33	1,435	1,024	145	145	48	45	3	17	22	34
Computer and information sciences	7,784	4,654	1,760	766	334	105	165	8,617	5,307	1,818	769	364	323	41	118	73	168
Construction trades	267	185	39	28	11	2	2	297	205	40	31	4	4	0	5	9	3
Education	14,696	9,700	2,089	2,053	283	412	159	17,726	11,378	2,637	2,645	359	284	75	382	168	157
Engineering	332	181	25	53	38	6	29	399	242	33	61	30	29	1	5	2	26
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	4,288	2,770	689	509	188	67	65	4,427	2,892	680	517	161	146	15	61	60	56
English language and literature/letters	1,097	601	115	250	86	16	29	1,372	745	182	296	105	98	7	11	14	19
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	9,078	4,941	2,017	1,562	336	113	109	8,174	4,264	1,818	1,526	317	288	29	72	58	119
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,365	948	75	270	36	6	30	1,499	990	68	324	39	30	9	14	19	45
Health professions and related programs	151,782	107,317	21,072	13,698	6,800	1,517	1,378	171,758	119,691	24,375	16,035	7,045	6,372	673	1,529	1,801	1,282
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	17,384	9,308	4,209	3,274	281	239	73	20,992	10,996	5,070	3,895	328	248	80	264	368	71
Legal professions and studies	8,800	5,642	1,580	1,229	203	94	52	9,785	6,340	1,637	1,263	243	199	44	86	155	61
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	174,074	108,756	22,917	28,076	8,517	2,200	3,608	188,114	116,084	24,970	30,414	8,519	7,656	863	1,979	2,503	3,645
Library science	92	73	5	8	4	2	0	139	113	5	15	2	2	0	1	3	0
Mathematics and statistics	326	156	7	88	55	1	19	620	257	48	159	117	117	0	10	9	20
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	826	558	117	99	34	16	2	971	623	144	124	22	20	2	35	17	6
Military technologies and applied sciences	137	88	24	14	8	3	0	163	101	24	22	9	7	2	3	4	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	10,711	5,947	813	2,120	1,487	78	266	14,824	8,386	1,491	2,602	1,718	1,617	101	130	152	345
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	793	519	93	123	28	12	18	934	594	97	172	33	29	4	18	9	11
Philosophy and religious studies	93	50	25	10	3	1	4	106	39	25	19	19	19	0	2	1	1
Physical sciences and science technologies	1,591	961	166	195	180	20	69	2,120	1,026	353	271	283	262	21	30	35	122
Precision production	178	153	7	7	0	7	4	230	185	12	14	6	5	1	10	3	0
Psychology	5,311	3,363	718	880	196	89	65	2,970	1,665	269	750	137	123	14	61	44	44
Public administration and social services	3,864	1,998	1,152	538	84	72	20	6,447	3,401	1,853	898	101	77	24	111	56	27
Social sciences and history	6,840	3,349	884	1,773	592	120	122	8,256	3,904	1,047	2,072	811	702	109	153	124	145
Social sciences	6,609	3,179	874	1,734	584	119	119	7,956	3,701	1,035	2,008	803	696	107	151	118	140
History	231	170	10	39	8	1	3	300	203	12	64	8	6	2	2	6	5
Theology and religious vocations	307	218	63	14	2	3	7	363	249	85	17	4	2	2	2	0	6
Transportation and materials moving	209	133	15	28	15	1	17	279	157	29	46	18	17	1	1	5	23
Visual and performing arts	11,881	7,861	1,042	1,438	850	106	584	12,673	8,258	1,062	1,597	818	767	51	95	157	686
Other and not classified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians," which are listed separately.

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. 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, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010 and Fall 2011, Completions component. (This table was prepared June 2012.)