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Appendix H: Data Tables
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... Appendix H Data Tables 117
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... 118 Table H-1  Master's Degrees and Doctorates Conferred, by Sex of Student and Field of Study: 2004-2005 Master's degrees Doctor's degrees (Ph.D., Ed.D., etc.) Field of Study Total Male Female Total Male Female All fields, total 574,618 233,590 341,028 52,631 26,973 25,658 Agriculture and natural resources 4,746 2,288 2,458 1,173 763 410 Architecture and related services 5,674 3,180 2,494 179 110 69 Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies 1,755 669 1,086 189 81 108 Biological and biomedical sciences 8,199 3,318 4,881 5,578 2,845 2,733 Business, management, marketing, and 142,617 82,151 60,466 1,498 901 597 services Communication and communications 7,195 2,535 4,660 468 195 273 technologies Computer and information sciences and 18,416 13,136 5,280 1,119 905 214 services Education 167,490 38,863 128,627 7,681 2,557 5,124 Engineering and engineering technologies 35,133 27,161 7,972 6,601 5,368 1,233 English language and literature/letters 8,468 2,615 5,853 1,212 494 718 Family and consumer sciences/human 1,827 229 1,598 331 68 263 sciences Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics 3,407 1,056 2,351 1,027 410 617 Health professions and related clinical 46,703 9,816 36,887 5,868 1,710 4,158 sciences Legal professions and studies 4,170 2,304 1,866 98 58 40
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... , Fall 2005. (See Digest of Education Statistics, 2006, Table 258, http://nces.ed.gov/programs/digest/d06/tables/dt06_258.asp, accessed October 22, 2007.)
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... sciences 68,449 Moderate Moderate 1.3 up to academia as a destination) Psychology 57,412 Moderate Moderate 4.6 Academia Physical sciences 51,223 Flat Moderate 1.2 Industry   E/A/O 14,827 Flat Moderate 2.3   Physics 13,472 Moderate 1.4   Chemistry 21,122 Moderate 1.0 Computer science 48,046 High Negative 20.9 Industry Mathematics 20,210 Flat High 4.0 Academia
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... bRatios hand-calculated based on 2004 data from NSF/SRS Science and Engineering Degrees: 1966–2004. cEmployment destination based on largest number of S&E doctorate holders reporting employment in one of three fields for 2003: education (academia)
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... sciences 63,892 7,556 5,937 Psychology 82,510 15,298 3,336 Physical sciences 18,143 5,600 4,025   E/A/O 3,903 1,570 672   Physics 4,156 1,637 1,186   Chemistry 9,305 2,056 1,987 Computer science 57,405 19,853 949 Mathematics 13,755 4,297 1,075 SOURCE: National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Statistics.
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