7. For Section 303 Master's Degree data, provide answers to the following questions. What is the mode for 2009, Master's degrees? Using only data from 2005 - 2009, what would you predict, using a 95% confidence interval, to be the number of Master's degrees earned in the field of Mathematics and Statistics for 2010? Show all of your work, including assumptions and justification for the predictions. In examining all of the data in Section 303 Master's degree data, provide a list of conclusions that can be drawn from this data
Table 303. Master's and Doctoral Degrees Earned by Field: 1980 to 2009 (The new Classification of Instructional Programs was introduced in 2002-2003. Data for previous years has been reclassified where necessary to conform to the new classifications. Based on survey; see Appendix II) Field of study 1990 1990 2000 2005 2008 2009 MASTER'S DEGREES Total'.... 298,081 324,301 457,056 574,618 625,023 656,784 Agriculture and natural resources 3,976 3.382 4,360 4,746 4,684 4,877 Architecture and related services 3,139 3,499 4,268 5,674 6,065 6,587 Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies 852 1.191 1,544 1.755 1,778 1.779 Biological and biomedical sciences. 6,322 4,906 6,781 8,199 Business 9,565 9,898 55,008 76,676 111,532 142,617 155,637 168,375 Communication, journalism, and related programs 3,092 4,353 5,525 7,195 7,546 7,567 Computer and information sciences 3,647 9.677 14,990 18,416 Education... 17.087 17,907 101,819 84,890 123,045 167,490 175,880 178,564 Engineering and engineering technologies 16,765 25.294 26,726 35,133 34 592 38,205 English language and literature/letters 6,026 6.317 7,022 8,468 9.161 9,261 Family and consumer sciences/human Sciences 2,690 1,679 1,882 1,827 2,199 Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics. 2,453 3,067 3.018 3,037 3,407 3,566 3,592 Health professions and related clinical sciences 15,374 20.406 42,593 46,703 58,120 62,620 Legal professions and studies. 1,817 1,888 3.750 4,170 4,754 Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities 5,150 2.646 1.999 3,256 3,680 3.797 3,728 Library science 5,374 4.341 Mathematics and statistics 4,577 6,213 7.162 7,091 2,880 3,624 3,208 4,477 Multilinterdisciplinary studies. 4.980 5,211 2,494 3.182 3,487 4,252 5.289 5,344 Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies. 647 529 2,322 3,740 4.440 4,822 Philosophy and religious studies 1,204 1,327 1,376 1,647 1,879 1,859 Physical sciences and science technologies. 5,167 5.410 4,810 5,678 5,999 5,658 Psychology ..... 9,938 10.730 15,740 18,830 21,431 23,415 Public administration and social services 17,560 17,399 25,594 29,552 33,029 33,933 Security and protective services 1,805 1.151 2,600 3,991 Social Sciences and history 5.760 6,128 12,176 11,634 14,066 16,952 18,496 19,240 Theology and religious vocations 3,872 4,941 5,534 5,815 Visual and performing arts 6.996 7,541 8,708 8,481 10,918 13,183 14,164 14,918 DOCTORAL DEGREES Total 32,615 38,371 44,808 52,631 63,712 67,716 Agriculture and natural resources 991 1.295 1,168 1.173 Architecture and related services 1,257 1,328 79 103 129 179 199 212 Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies 151 125 205 189 270 239 Biological and biomedical sciences 3,527 3,837 5,180 5,578 6.918 6,957 Business 767 1,093 1,194 1,498 2.084 2.123 Communication, journalism and related programs 193 272 357 468 496 533 Computer and information Sciences 240 627 779 1,119 1.698 Education. 1.5.80 7,314 6,503 6,409 7,681 8.491 9,028 Engineering and engineering technologies 2,546 5,030 5,421 6,601 8,167 English language and literaturo/letters 7,990 1,196 988 1,470 1,212 1.262 1,271 Family and consumer sciences/human sciences 192 273 327 331 323 333 Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics. 857 1,086 1.027 Health professions and related clinical sciences 1.078 1.111 821 1,449 2,053 5,868 Legal professions and studies. 9.886 12,112 40 111 74 98 172 Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities 259 192 63 83 109 76 67 Mathematics and statistics 724 917 1,075 1,176 1,360 1.535 Multilinterdisciplinary studies. 318 442 792 983 Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies 1.142 1,273 21 35 134 207 228 285 Philosophy and religious studies. 374 445 598 586 635 696 Physical sciences and science technologies. 3,044 4.116 3,963 4,114 4,804 5,048 Psychology 3,395 3.811 Public administration and social services 4,731 5,106 5.296 5,477 342 500 537 673 760 B12 Security and protective services 18 39 52 94 Social Sciences and history 88 97 3,230 3,010 4,095 3,819 Theology and religious vocations 4,059 4,234 1.315 1.317 1.630 1,422 1,446 1,520 Visual and performing arts 655 849 1,127 1,278 1.453 1,500 Includes other fields of study, not shown separately. Includes technologies Source: U.S. National Center for Education Statistics, Digest of Education Statistics, annual and unpublished data. See also
