Science and Engineering Degrees, by Race/Ethnicity of Recipients: 1989-1997. Detailed Statistical Tables

摘要

This publication is based on data obtained from two surveys. Bachelors and masters degree data were collected by the National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education, from all accredited institutions of higher education. Data on doctorates are from Survey of Earned Doctorates, a universe survey of individual doctorate recipients that is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and four other Federal agencies. These data cover earned degrees conferred in the aggregate United States, which includes the 50 States, the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories and Outlying Areas (American Samoa, the former Canal Zone, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Pacific Islands). Degree data are compiled for a 12-month period, July of one year through June of the following year. For convenience, degrees for such a given 12-month period will be referred to by the year in which the period ended, e.g., 1997 means the 12- month period ending June 1997. Because racial/ethnic data were collected by broad fields of study only (until 1995), the definition of science and engineering used by NSF for this trend report must include fields normally not included. There is one instance where this difference has a large impactthe broad field of Social Sciences. The U.S. Department of Education includes the field of history in this broad category, so when it collected the racial/ethnic data up until 1995, this field was included in the Social Sciences and comprised 20- 23 percent of the Social Sciences category for bachelors and masters degree data.