Table 260. | Number of degree-granting institutions conferring degrees, by level of degree and discipline division: 1997-98 |
______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | Total number of institutions | Public institutions | Private institutions |______________________________________|______________________________________|______________________________________ Discipline division |Associate|Bachelor's|Master's|Doctor's|Associate|Bachelor's|Master's|Doctor's|Associate|Bachelor's|Master's|Doctor's | degrees | degrees |degrees |degrees | degrees | degrees |degrees |degrees | degrees | degrees |degrees |degrees _________________________________________|_________|__________|________|________|_________|__________|________|________|_________|__________|________|________ 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 _________________________________________|_________|__________|________|________|_________|__________|________|________|_________|__________|________|________ Total .................................| 2,465 | 1,910 | 1,416 | 517 | 1,283 | 565 | 495 | 231 | 1,182 | 1,345 | 921 | 286 |_________|__________|________|________|_________|__________|________|________|_________|__________|________|________ Agricultural business and production ....| 331 | 124 | 62 | 34 | 319 | 96 | 58 | 33 | 12 | 28 | 4 | 1 Agricultural sciences ...................| 104 | 126 | 78 | 52 | 99 | 113 | 75 | 52 | 5 | 13 | 3 | 0 Architecture and related programs .......| 31 | 163 | 115 | 25 | 26 | 104 | 86 | 19 | 5 | 59 | 29 | 6 Area, ethnic, and cultural studies ......| 38 | 388 | 113 | 38 | 33 | 173 | 67 | 19 | 5 | 215 | 46 | 19 Biological sciences/life sciences .......| 198 | 1,254 | 427 | 225 | 181 | 475 | 307 | 151 | 17 | 779 | 120 | 74 | | | | | | | | | | | | Business management and administrative | | | | | | | | | | | | services ..............................| 1,756 | 1,420 | 796 | 127 | 1,141 | 501 | 362 | 83 | 615 | 919 | 434 | 44 Communications ..........................| 235 | 912 | 239 | 51 | 193 | 375 | 164 | 41 | 42 | 537 | 75 | 10 Communications technologies .............| 166 | 35 | 13 | 2 | 152 | 18 | 3 | 0 | 14 | 17 | 10 | 2 Computer and information sciences .......| 802 | 1,079 | 354 | 129 | 550 | 442 | 217 | 87 | 252 | 637 | 137 | 42 Conservation and renewable natural | | | | | | | | | | | | resources .............................| 137 | 338 | 120 | 51 | 123 | 167 | 95 | 47 | 14 | 171 | 25 | 4 | | | | | | | | | | | | Consumer and personal services ..........| 266 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 218 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 48 | 6 | 0 | 0 Construction trades .....................| 202 | 14 | 2 | 0 | 187 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 15 | 8 | 1 | 0 Education ...............................| 408 | 1,128 | 900 | 229 | 320 | 423 | 426 | 160 | 88 | 705 | 474 | 69 Engineering .............................| 269 | 411 | 264 | 177 | 243 | 221 | 174 | 128 | 26 | 190 | 90 | 49 Engineering-related technologies ........| 1,034 | 306 | 65 | 4 | 825 | 211 | 52 | 3 | 209 | 95 | 13 | 1 | | | | | | | | | | | | English language and literature/letters .| 142 | 1,256 | 428 | 143 | 128 | 482 | 299 | 96 | 14 | 774 | 129 | 47 Foreign languages and literatures .......| 82 | 840 | 201 | 86 | 79 | 377 | 146 | 55 | 3 | 463 | 55 | 31 Health professions and related sciences .| 1,406 | 966 | 619 | 163 | 1,007 | 430 | 319 | 113 | 399 | 536 | 300 | 50 Home economics ..........................| 92 | 311 | 182 | 44 | 76 | 205 | 118 | 34 | 16 | 106 | 64 | 10 Law and legal studies ...................| 508 | 148 | 75 | 14 | 331 | 47 | 29 | 2 | 177 | 101 | 46 | 12 | | | | | | | | | | | | Liberal arts and sciences, general | | | | | | | | | | | | studies, and humanities ...............| 1,323 | 742 | 154 | 18 | 1,030 | 305 | 76 | 7 | 293 | 437 | 78 | 11 Library science .........................| 29 | 13 | 68 | 17 | 27 | 12 | 56 | 16 | 2 | 1 | 12 | 1 Marketing operations/marketing and | | | | | | | | | | | | distribution ..........................| 445 | 162 | 19 | 1 | 347 | 61 | 4 | 0 | 98 | 101 | 15 | 1 Mathematics .............................| 139 | 1,121 | 340 | 158 | 130 | 469 | 255 | 112 | 9 | 652 | 85 | 46 Mechanics and repairers .................| 583 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 534 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 49 | 4 | 0 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | Multi/interdisciplinary studies .........| 197 | 627 | 210 | 59 | 175 | 269 | 137 | 39 | 22 | 358 | 73 | 20 Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness | | | | | | | | | | | | studies ...............................| 134 | 556 | 134 | 27 | 120 | 250 | 113 | 25 | 14 | 306 | 21 | 2 Philosophy and religion .................| 39 | 837 | 193 | 95 | 24 | 286 | 86 | 50 | 15 | 551 | 107 | 45 Physical sciences .......................| 148 | 1,060 | 335 | 203 | 140 | 463 | 241 | 138 | 8 | 597 | 94 | 65 Precision production trades .............| 681 | 32 | 3 | 0 | 568 | 22 | 1 | 0 | 113 | 10 | 2 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | Protective services .....................| 832 | 482 | 117 | 8 | 748 | 254 | 85 | 8 | 84 | 228 | 32 | 0 Psychology ..............................| 161 | 1,252 | 552 | 248 | 139 | 465 | 306 | 133 | 22 | 787 | 246 | 115 Public administration and services ......| 270 | 641 | 355 | 81 | 236 | 297 | 241 | 50 | 34 | 344 | 114 | 31 R.O.T.C. and military technologies ......| 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 Science technologies ....................| 116 | 24 | 3 | 1 | 106 | 8 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 16 | 1 | 0 | | | | | | | | | | | | Social sciences and history .............| 225 | 1,295 | 419 | 175 | 191 | 491 | 296 | 118 | 34 | 804 | 123 | 57 Theological studies/religious vocations .| 82 | 341 | 244 | 113 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 81 | 341 | 244 | 113 Transportation and material moving | | | | | | | | | | | | workers ...............................| 115 | 70 | 7 | 0 | 99 | 37 | 4 | 0 | 16 | 33 | 3 | 0 Visual and performing arts ..............| 597 | 1,243 | 374 | 101 | 419 | 452 | 236 | 65 | 178 | 791 | 138 | 36 Vocational home economics ...............| 547 | 32 | 6 | 0 | 522 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 25 | 19 | 2 | 0 Not classified by field of study ........| 22 | 7 | 10 | 5 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 7 | 10 | 5 _________________________________________|_________|__________|________|________|_________|__________|________|________|_________|__________|________|________ |
NOTE: Doctor's degrees include Ph.D., Ed.D., and comparable degrees at the doctoral level. Excludes first-professional degrees such as M.D., D.D.S., and law degrees. Data represent programs, not organizational units within institutions. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, "Completions" survey, 1997-98 and "Consolidated" survey, 1998. (This table was prepared June 2000.)
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