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II-41b: Percentages of Master’s Degrees in English Language and Literature Awarded to Members of Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups, 1977–2014*

Data Source and Other Information

* The gaps in the trend lines indicate a shift from the National Science Foundation’s disciplinary classification system to the National Center for Education Statistics’ Classification of Instructional Programs. Please see the Note on the Data Used to Calculate the Number of Degree Completions in English Language and Literature and in Languages and Literatures Other than English for an explanation of the differences between the two systems that are most pertinent to this indicator. Data not published for all years.
** Includes students who are citizens or permanent residents and who are identified by their institutions as African American (non-Hispanic), American Indian/Alaska Native, Asian/Pacific Islander, or Hispanic.
† Students counted under “Racial/Ethnic Minorities” minus Asians and Pacific Islanders.

Source: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Data System; accessed via the National Science Foundation’s online integrated science and engineering resources data system, WebCASPAR.

 

About the Data

See the Note on Data Used to Calculate Discipline-Specific Degree Counts and Shares, the Note on the Data Used to Calculate the Number of Degree Completions in English Language and Literature and in Languages and Literatures Other than English, and the Note on the Definition of Advanced Degrees. See the Degree Program Code Catalog for an inventory of the specific degree programs included by the Humanities Indicators under the heading of “English Language and Literature.”

Related Indicators

Comparable information on other humanities disciplines can be found in “Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Degrees in History,” “Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Degrees in Languages and Literatures Other than English,” “Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Degrees in Philosophy,” and “Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Degrees in Religion.”

For historical trends in levels of degree completion across the humanities, see “Bachelor’s Degrees in the Humanities,” “Advanced Degrees in the Humanities,” “Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Undergraduate Degrees in the Humanities,” and “Racial/Ethnic Distribution of Advanced Degrees in the Humanities.”

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