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II-25f: Percentage of Doctoral Degrees Awarded to Members of Traditionally Underrepresented Racial/Ethnic Groups,* Selected Academic Fields, 1995–2015

Data Source and Other Information

* Includes students who are citizens or permanent residents and self-identify as American Indian/Alaska Native only (non-Hispanic), African American/Black only (non-Hispanic), Asian only (non-Hispanic), Hispanic or Latino (any race), Native Hawaiian/Other Pacific Islander only (non-Hispanic), or two or more races (non-Hispanic). These—along with “White only (non-Hispanic),” “U.S. Nonresident,” and “Unknown” (for students who decline to answer)—are the categories the National Center for Education Statistics requires institutions to use when reporting students’ race/identity. For information on how institutions collect data on race/ethnicity from students and assign them to these categories, see https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/report-your-data/race-ethnicity-collecting-data-for-reporting-purposes.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System. Data analyzed and presented by the American Academy of Arts Sciences’ Humanities Indicators (www.humanitiesindicators.org).

About the Data

See also the Note on the Data Used to Calculate Discipline-Specific Degree Counts and Shares and the Note on the Definition of Advanced Degrees.

Related Indicators

For comparable information on the demographics of humanities degree completers at other levels, see “Racial/Ethnic Representation Among Humanities Bachelor’s Degree Recipients” and “Racial/Ethnic Representation Among Master’s Degree Recipients in the Humanities.”

For additional information on the demographics of students earning graduate-level humanities degrees, see “Gender Distribution of Advanced Degrees in the Humanities.”

For historical trends in levels of master’s degree completion, see “Advanced Degrees in the Humanities.”

Other indicators pertaining to graduate education in the humanities can be found under the topics “Share of All Advanced Degrees Conferred in the Humanities,” “Disciplinary Distribution of Advanced Degrees in the Humanities,” “Humanities Degree Completions: An International Comparison,” “Paying for Doctoral Studies in the Humanities,” “Years to Attainment of a Humanities Doctorate,” and “Attrition in Humanities Doctorate Programs.”

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