Northwestern University Exhibits for Asian Focus Areas

Last update: 12/7/2018

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Northwestern University  Exhibit 1. Asian American and White Graduates by IPEDS Degree Areas

Northwestern University Exhibit 2. Asian Focus Areas Identified by Overall Asian-to-White Ratio

Northwestern University  Exhibit 3A. Graduates -- All Races

• A2W, the right-most column, displays the ratio of the number of students in the Asian column to the number in the White column for each category. 
• The last four rows of the table show the total enrollments, total number of students in Asian Focus areas, percentage of total enrollments, the total number in Asian Focus Areas, and the percentage of enrollments in Asian Focus Areas, respectively.

Northwestern University Graduates, Class of 2016

DegreeAreas	All	White	Asian	Hispanic	Black	A2W
LiberalArtsSciencesGeneralStudies	1	1	0	0	0	0.00
History	57	45	1	3	0	0.02
NaturalResourcesConservation	14	12	1	1	0	0.08
EnglishLanguageLiterature	40	25	2	7	0	0.08
Education	11	8	1	1	1	0.12
VisualPerformingArts	202	135	17	20	4	0.13
ForeignLanguagesLiteraturesLinguistics	29	19	3	5	1	0.16
CommunicationJournalism	494	304	54	39	36	0.18
AreaEthnicCulturalGenderGroup	20	11	2	2	5	0.18
PoliticalScience	92	54	11	9	2	0.20
PublicAdministrationSocialService	110	63	13	12	8	0.21
MathematicsStatistics	64	35	11	5	1	0.31
SocialSciencesWithoutEconPoli	48	25	8	5	6	0.32
MultiInterdisciplinaryStudies	9	6	2	0	0	0.33
AFA-BusinessManagementMarketing	26	12	5	4	4	0.42
AFA-Psychology	176	84	37	17	18	0.44
AFA-HealthProfessionsRelatedPrograms	19	9	4	2	3	0.44
AFA-PhysicalSciences	40	19	9	4	1	0.47
AFA-Engineering	348	178	85	27	9	0.48
AFA-ComputerInformationSciences	86	41	21	9	1	0.51
AFA-Economics	292	127	81	16	6	0.64
AFA-PhilosophyReligiousStudies	22	7	5	2	4	0.71
AFA-BiologicalBiomedicalSciences	128	50	51	6	8	1.02
...SumClassOf2016...	2328	1270	424	196	118	0.33
...PercentClassOf2016...	100	55	18	8	5	0.33
...SumAsianFocusAreas...	1137	527	298	87	54	0.57
...PercentAsianFocus...	49	41	70	44	46	1.71

Northwestern University  Exhibit 3B. Graduates -- Other Components

Abbreviated column headings have the usual meanings:

• The "Others" category includes AmericanIndians/AlaskaNatives and NativeHawaiians/Other Pacific Islanders
• "TwoOrMore" = multiracial students 
• "Unknown" = students who did not specify any racial group
• "NonResAlien" = non-resident aliens, i.e., foreign students.

Northwestern University Graduates, Class of 2016

DegreeAreas	All	Others	TwoOrMore	Unknown	NonResAlien
LiberalArtsSciencesGeneralStudies	1	0	0	0	0
History	57	0	4	3	1
NaturalResourcesConservation	14	0	0	0	0
EnglishLanguageLiterature	40	0	3	2	1
Education	11	0	0	0	0
VisualPerformingArts	202	0	18	6	2
ForeignLanguagesLiteraturesLinguistics	29	0	1	0	0
CommunicationJournalism	494	0	20	4	37
AreaEthnicCulturalGenderGroup	20	0	0	0	0
PoliticalScience	92	0	6	1	9
PublicAdministrationSocialService	110	0	11	0	3
MathematicsStatistics	64	0	1	1	10
SocialSciencesWithoutEconPoli	48	0	3	0	1
MultiInterdisciplinaryStudies	9	0	0	0	1
AFA-BusinessManagementMarketing	26	0	0	0	1
AFA-Psychology	176	0	11	2	7
AFA-HealthProfessionsRelatedPrograms	19	0	1	0	0
AFA-PhysicalSciences	40	0	5	0	2
AFA-Engineering	348	2	17	2	28
AFA-ComputerInformationSciences	86	0	3	0	11
AFA-Economics	292	0	6	6	50
AFA-PhilosophyReligiousStudies	22	0	2	0	2
AFA-BiologicalBiomedicalSciences	128	0	9	0	4
...SumClassOf2016...	2328	2	121	27	170
...PercentClassOf2016...	100	0	5	1	7
...SumAsianFocusAreas...	1137	2	54	10	105
...PercentAsianFocus...	49	100	45	37	62