Table 323.40.

Master's degrees conferred to males by postsecondary institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2015-16 and 2016-17

Field of study	2015-16										2016-17
	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/Pacific Islander			American Indian/ Alaska Native	Two or more races	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								Total	Asian	Pacific Islander
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
All fields, total	320,574	166,161	27,024	22,749	20,071	19,462	609	1,229	6,129	77,211	326,892	164,719	26,976	23,797	20,705	20,115	590	1,150	6,450	83,095
Agriculture and natural resources	2,965	2,085	99	146	72	72	0	18	57	488	3,038	2,058	114	162	84	82	2	9	86	525
Architecture and related services	4,165	2,250	169	399	185	181	4	6	78	1,078	4,014	2,053	169	367	192	188	4	11	91	1,131
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	636	341	47	92	28	26	2	7	16	105	594	280	53	72	47	42	5	22	16	104
Biological and biomedical sciences	6,707	3,767	344	509	916	909	7	14	182	975	6,840	3,738	374	560	953	946	7	19	210	986
Business	99,488	54,659	10,110	7,401	7,564	7,319	245	375	1,842	17,537	98,768	54,132	9,754	7,697	7,418	7,191	227	324	1,856	17,587
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,862	1,634	337	222	81	73	8	8	69	511	2,943	1,589	351	280	88	83	5	11	86	538
Communications technologies	242	89	19	16	7	7	0	0	2	109	277	113	13	15	8	8	0	2	6	120
Computer and information sciences	27,788	6,077	1,383	852	1,945	1,918	27	41	300	17,190	32,173	6,639	1,461	926	2,426	2,390	36	54	366	20,301
Construction trades	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Education	33,791	23,853	3,576	3,351	1,050	973	77	208	703	1,050	33,177	23,297	3,507	3,401	975	918	57	169	730	1,098
Engineering	38,755	11,575	843	1,467	2,597	2,579	18	52	525	21,696	39,759	11,531	839	1,619	2,698	2,672	26	47	507	22,518
Engineering technologies and engineering-related     fields1	4,443	1,802	276	196	194	190	4	22	58	1,895	5,461	1,775	282	172	181	178	3	16	49	2,986
English language and literature/letters	2,884	2,198	137	257	67	66	1	19	97	109	2,739	2,086	123	243	76	75	1	18	89	104
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	461	273	81	41	15	14	1	2	10	39	436	275	58	36	14	14	0	1	15	37
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,174	632	24	152	34	32	2	3	31	298	1,170	582	30	181	22	22	0	1	34	320
Health professions and related programs	20,424	12,176	2,296	1,741	2,187	2,112	75	114	454	1,456	21,982	13,126	2,521	1,958	2,227	2,154	73	113	531	1,506
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	4,908	3,176	839	506	146	129	17	37	93	111	5,177	3,247	914	559	146	123	23	33	136	142
Legal professions and studies	3,875	1,069	201	191	121	115	6	20	32	2,241	3,911	1,058	238	212	148	144	4	29	41	2,185
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and     humanities	1,011	698	95	93	13	11	2	11	33	68	949	660	98	87	28	25	3	14	29	33
Library science	907	725	32	66	34	32	2	1	29	20	842	673	36	63	27	24	3	2	21	20
Mathematics and statistics	4,924	1,771	123	195	326	322	4	5	70	2,434	5,116	1,737	113	199	342	338	4	3	78	2,644
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Military technologies and applied sciences	116	77	18	4	5	5	0	0	2	10	212	130	45	9	5	5	0	0	0	23
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	3,209	1,898	289	245	173	164	9	9	67	528	3,402	1,838	291	281	204	203	1	15	86	687
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	4,733	3,301	606	334	91	86	5	22	108	271	4,979	3,313	733	415	114	104	10	15	150	239
Philosophy and religious studies	1,129	821	67	81	36	35	1	3	24	97	1,108	748	67	97	54	53	1	4	28	110
Physical sciences and science technologies	4,435	2,470	103	231	218	216	2	19	110	1,284	4,418	2,416	94	238	215	213	2	11	100	1,344
Precision production	6	5	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	4	2	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	2
Psychology	5,571	3,615	660	623	238	223	15	42	168	225	5,588	3,532	676	672	261	248	13	34	185	228
Public administration and social services	11,184	6,116	1,851	1,384	458	422	36	57	301	1,017	10,799	5,710	1,779	1,387	539	503	36	65	264	1,055
Social sciences and history	10,010	5,880	541	807	392	384	8	35	237	2,118	9,914	5,696	509	792	405	395	10	35	248	2,229
Social sciences	8,104	4,342	470	649	362	358	4	27	195	2,059	8,029	4,164	455	654	374	365	9	29	196	2,157
History	1,906	1,538	71	158	30	26	4	8	42	59	1,885	1,532	54	138	31	30	1	6	52	72
Theology and religious vocations	9,367	6,190	1,241	486	511	494	17	42	161	736	8,865	5,968	1,095	466	458	440	18	35	145	698
Transportation and materials moving	725	498	51	38	31	30	1	5	32	70	672	441	79	33	28	27	1	2	33	56
Visual and performing arts	7,679	4,440	566	623	336	323	13	32	238	1,444	7,565	4,276	560	598	322	307	15	36	234	1,539
Other and not classified	0	0	0	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: Data are for postsecondary institutions participating 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 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS): "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. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2016 and Fall 2017, Completions component. (This table was prepared August 2018.)