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o¢37-T JYSA-22 D3e/3[WB7-FS Science and Engineering Degrees, by Race/Ethnicity of Recipients: 1989-95 Detailed Statistical Tables COMPLETED Division of Science Resources Studies Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences National Science Foundation NSF 97-334 j NE TF -COPrULKE Science and Engineering Degrees, by Race/Ethnicity of Recipients: Detailed Statistical Tables Susan T. Hill Author Division of Science Resources Studies Directorate for Social, Behavioral, and Economic Sciences National Science Foundation NSF 97-334 L Suggested Citation National Science Foundation, Division of Science Resources Studies, Science and Engineering Degrees, by Race/Ethnicity of Recipients, 1989-95, NSF 97-334, by Susan T. Hill (Arlington, VA, 1997). Availability of Publications Single copies are available free of charge from the Division of Science Resources Studies, National Science Foundation, Arlington, VA 22230. SRS data are also available through the World Wide Web (http://www.nsf.gov/sbe/srs/stats.htm). If you are a user of electronic mail and have access to the Internet, you may order publications electronically. Send requests to pubs @nsf.gov. In your request include the NSF publication number and title, your name, and a complete mailing address. Printed publications may also be ordered by fax (703-644-4278). Please allow 3 weeks for delivery. Telephonic Device for the Deaf (703) 306-0090 Contributors Tabulations and charts were prepared by Quantum Research Corp. for the National Science Foundation. The author for this report was Susan T. Hill. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS The preparation of Science and Engineering Pollack, and Eleanor Thomas. Anne Houghton and Degrees, by Race/Ethnicity of Recipients: 1989-95, Julia Harriston provided copyediting, processing, and was overseen by Susan T. Hill, Analyst, Science and final composition for this report. Quantum Research Engineering Education and Human Resources Program Corp. (QRC) of Bethesda, MD, prepared the tables (EDU), National Science Foundation (NSF), under the and report copy for printing under NSF contract overall direction of Mary J. Golladay, Program Direc- number SRS-9423167. QRC staff members who tor, EDU, and Jeanne E. Griffith, Director, Division of worked on this project were Heidi L. Clark, Teresa L. Science Resources Studies (SRS), NSF. NSF reviewers Grimes, George J. Nozicka, Elizabeth H. Peto, and included Rolf Lehming, Myles Boylan, Melissa Jennifer D. Ranwez. CONTENTS Section Page RSET SEES Ea ee al ROR ROL eee ne ee ema eee ii I a a we Oh a eT 3 I i 7 a OR 13 SECTION D. DETAILED STATISTICAL TABLES ............cccccccecescsecececceccecccecceccees 25 SECTION E. CLASSIFICATION OF PROGRAMS. ........cccccecccccccecceececcececcceccecececes 97 Web Page Order Form GENERAL NOTES This publication is based on data obtained from two include field. normally not included. There ts one surveys. Bachelor’s and master’s degree data were instance where this difference has a large impact—the collected by the National Center for Education Statis- broad field of “Social Sciences.” The U.S. Department tics, U.S. Department of Education, from all accredited of Education includes the field of history in this broad institutions of higher education. Data on doctorates are category, so when it collected the racial/ethnic data up from Survey of Earned Doctorates, a universe survey until 1995, this field is included. of individual doctorate recipients that is sponsored by the National Science Foundation (NSF) and four other Before 1985, the broad category of “Engineering” Federal agencies. included engineering technologies. This report excludes engineering technologies so that trend data by race/ These data cover earned degrees conferred in the ethnicity are more consistent with the definition of aggregate United States, which includes the 50 States, science and engineering used in other NSF reports. If the District of Columbia, and the U.S. Territories and the reader is interested in earlier data for science fields Outlying Areas (American Samoa, the former Canal (that are consistent from 1977-93), please request Zone, the Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto Rico, the Science and Engineering Degrees, by Race/ U.S. Virgin Islands, and the Trust Territory of the Ethnicity of Recipients: 1977-91, NSF 94-306. Pacific Islands). Degree data are compiled for a 12-month period, July of one year through June of the For more information, please contact the NSF following year. For convenience, degrees for such a principal author— given 12-month period will be referred to by the year in which the period ended, e.g., 1995 means the 12-month Susan T. Hill period ending June 1995. Division of Science Resources Studies National Science Foundation There were two types of changes in the way data 4201 Wilson Boulevard, Suite 965 were collected during the period covered in this report. Arlington, VA 22230 Because racial/ethnic data were collected by broad fields of study only (until 1995), the definition of science Telephone: (703) 306-1774, ext. 6915 and engineering used by NSF for this trend report must Internet: [email protected] SECTION A. DatTA HIGHLIGHTS TRENDS IN BACHELOR S$D EGREES Among underrepresented minority groups, the increases in baccalaureate degrees vary by field of AWARDED TO RACIAL/ETHNIC science or engineering. From 1990-95 the percentage increases in baccalaureates awarded to under- MINORITIES IN SCIENCE AND represented groups ranged from a 15-percent increase ENGINEERING in computer science degrees to an increase of 85 percent in psychology degrees (chart A-1). The number of bachelor’s degrees in science and engineering (S&E) fields awarded to underrepresented minority students showed robust growth in the early eqrees awarded to 1990s, after a period of relatively slow growth from ercentage change 1985-90. From 1990-95, the number of baccalaureate recipients with degrees in S&E increased 51 percent for blacks, 59 percent for Hispanics, and 67 percent for American Indians. The percentage increases for underrepresented minority groups were highes than the percentage increases found among white recipients (9 percent) (table A-1). Biological scence [ES Physical scences (EES Engneerng Table A-1. Science and engineering bachelor s degrees, by race ethnicity of recipients: percentage change, 1985—90 and Mathenatcs 1990-95 Computer scence Fi Race ethnicity 1985-90 1990-95 White, ron-Hispanics............ — 4% 9% o 0 OH © SD 6 70 8 9 100 Asians or Pacific islanders 46 50 Percentage change Underrepresented minorities. total 10 55 SOURCE: NSF SRS tabulations of National Center for Black. non-Hispanics 7 51 Education Statistics Completions Survey data Hispanics ialiatiatat 16 59 American Indians or Alaskan Natives... -8 67 SOURCE: NSF SRS tabulations of Nationa! Center for Education One-third of all bachelor’s degree recipients of all Statistics Completions Survey data racial/ethnic groups (except Asians, at 49 percent) chose S&E fields in 1995. Among those who majored In 1995 there were similar numbers of black in S&E fields in 1995. Cne-third of all bachelor’s bachelor’s degree recipients in S&E (28 thousand) degree recipients of all racial/ethnic groups (except and Asian recipients (29 thousand). The number of Asians, at 49 percent) chose S&E fields in 1995. Hispanics earning bachelor’s degrees in S&E fields hit Among those who majored in SKE, however, there are an all-time high of 22 thousand, as did American slight differences among racial/ethnic groups. Indians (more than 2 thousand). Degree awards have increased more tn the social Even with this growth, minority students still sciences, fie'c s in which there ts a slightly higher comprised 28 percent of the “college-age” population concentration, of S&E bachelor’s degree recipients (18-24 years old) in 1995, whereas baccalaureates among underrepresented minorities (58 percent) than earned by underrepresented minority students accounted among whites (53 percent). for only 13 percent of the total S&E degrees in 1995. Betore 1995, data were collected by race/ethnicity only for broad fields of study: in 1995 data were collected by specific fields of study Among S&E baccalaureate recipients in 1995, a Although these slight differences exist, the slightly lower percentage of underrepresented gaps once found between the S&E field choices of minorities majored in engineering (13 percent) than underrepresented minorities and whites have virtually did whites (15 percent), and the natural sciences disappeared. (29 percent) than did whites (32 percent) (table A-2). Race ethnicity Engineering | Sciences Sciences Underrepresented minorities. 13% 29% 58% Whites.............. 15 32 53 Asians... 23 38 39 SOURCE: NSF/SRS tabulations of National Center for Education Statistics Completions Survev data SECTION B. TECHNICAL NOTES