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Table 247. Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by field of study: 1992-93 through 2003-04
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                                                    |        |        |        |        |        |        |   1998-|   1999-|        |        |        |
Field of study                                      | 1992-93| 1993-94| 1994-95| 1995-96| 1996-97| 1997-98|   99\1\|    2000| 2000-01| 2001-02| 2002-03| 2003-04
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1                                                   |       2|       3|       4|       5|       6|       7|       8|       9|      10|      11|      12|      13
____________________________________________________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________
   Total ...........................................| 514,756| 530,632| 539,691| 555,216| 571,226| 558,555| 559,954| 564,933| 578,865| 595,133| 632,912| 665,301
                                                    |________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________
Agriculture and natural resources, total ...........|   5,383|   5,625|   5,730|   6,182|   6,463|   6,673|   6,632|   6,666|   6,649|   6,494|   6,208|   6,283
  Agriculture, agriculture operations, and          |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
     related sciences ..............................|   4,044|   4,294|   4,393|   4,723|   5,021|   5,206|   5,220|   5,292|   5,200|   5,125|   4,890|   4,959
  Natural resources and conservation ...............|   1,339|   1,331|   1,337|   1,459|   1,442|   1,467|   1,412|   1,374|   1,449|   1,369|   1,318|   1,324
Architecture and related services ..................|     372|     353|     277|     256|     316|     265|     405|     392|     417|     443|     440|     492
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies .........|      33|      75|      68|     110|      82|      97|      85|     113|      73|      94|     126|     105
Biological and biomedical sciences .................|   1,449|   1,789|   1,861|   2,049|   2,133|   2,113|   2,213|   1,448|   1,443|   1,534|   1,496|   1,456
Business, management, and marketing ................|  92,676|  91,612|  89,162|  90,945|  92,228|  87,672|  86,964|  86,106|  87,059|  86,713|  89,564|  92,065
  Accounting .......................................|  15,115|  15,307|  14,970|  15,926|  16,017|  14,807|  14,325|  13,562|  13,158|  12,315|  13,234|  14,506
  Business, general ................................|  11,190|  11,452|  11,622|  11,397|  11,385|  11,311|  11,514|  12,283|  12,621|  12,936|  13,010|  13,387
  Business administration and management ...........|  29,556|  29,691|  28,967|  28,901|  29,804|  28,793|  28,615|  28,486|  28,947|  30,268|  33,024|  33,652
  Business and management, other ...................|  19,810|  18,310|  11,232|  15,910|  15,197|  14,148|  14,027|  13,398|  13,122|  13,269|  13,352|  14,909
  Management information systems ...................|   3,048|   3,094|   3,884|   4,539|   4,936|   4,261|   4,526|   5,394|   6,016|   6,417|   5,602|   4,214
  Secretarial and related programs .................|  13,957|  13,758|  18,487|  14,272|  14,889|  14,352|  13,957|  12,983|  13,195|  11,508|  11,342|  11,397
Communications .....................................|   1,904|   2,052|   3,160|   2,187|   2,030|   2,368|   2,639|   2,754|   2,949|   2,819|   2,602|   2,444
Communications technologies ........................|   2,692|   3,420|   3,035|   2,807|   2,863|   2,642|   2,528|   2,625|   3,038|   3,006|   3,300|   3,401
Computer and information sciences ..................|  12,473|  12,630|  12,230|  12,500|  14,607|  18,185|  22,445|  28,185|  34,356|  40,127|  46,089|  41,845
Construction trades ................................|   1,653|   1,695|   1,728|   2,141|   1,928|   2,172|   2,137|   2,337|   2,682|   2,639|   3,001|   3,560
Education ..........................................|   9,358|   9,301|   9,691|   9,809|  10,587|   9,461|  10,165|   8,510|   9,533|   9,611|  11,199|  12,465
Engineering ........................................|   2,448|   2,381|   2,191|   2,158|   1,921|   2,118|   2,012|   1,722|   1,795|   1,691|   2,176|   2,737
Engineering-related technologies ...................|  43,084|  42,453|  41,438|  40,447|  41,349|  40,784|  42,362|  43,732|  42,366|  40,217|  39,957|  36,915
English language and literature/letters ............|     619|     697|     895|     813|     892|   1,035|   1,032|     947|     877|     864|     896|     828
Family and consumer sciences .......................|   6,499|   6,960|   7,234|   7,651|   7,998|   7,811|   8,063|   8,031|   8,329|   9,208|   9,471|   9,478
Foreign languages and literatures ..................|   1,510|   1,447|   1,694|   1,612|   1,768|   1,674|   1,705|   1,059|   1,100|   1,085|   1,050|   1,047
Health professions and related sciences ............|  87,671|  96,597| 100,714| 104,775| 102,077|  94,940|  93,218|  86,676|  84,656|  82,361|  90,536| 106,208
  Dental assisting .................................|   4,165|   3,989|   4,312|   4,564|   4,866|   4,904|   6,628|   5,569|   5,193|   5,223|   5,466|   5,652
  Emergency medical technician-ambulance and        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
     paramedic .....................................|     442|     510|     771|     889|   1,048|     975|     918|   1,152|   1,134|   1,203|   1,398|   1,617
  Medical lab technician ...........................|   2,172|   2,570|   2,769|   2,982|   2,641|   2,370|   2,033|   1,644|   1,502|   1,384|   1,494|   1,678
  Medical assisting ................................|   2,130|   2,785|   3,544|   4,941|   5,019|   5,102|   5,358|   5,414|   5,863|   4,748|   5,846|   8,499
  Nursing assisting ................................|      86|       6|       2|       7|      13|      23|      12|       7|       2|       0|       8|       4
  Practical nursing ................................|     890|     740|     772|     605|     429|     499|     447|     575|     619|     814|     916|   1,049
  Nursing, R.N. and other ..........................|  54,079|  57,397|  57,456|  56,469|  52,983|  47,329|  43,029|  40,767|  40,278|  40,800|  45,044|  51,552
  Health sciences, other ...........................|  23,707|  28,600|  31,088|  34,318|  35,078|  33,738|  34,793|  31,548|  30,065|  28,189|  30,364|  36,157
Legal professions and studies ......................|   9,927|  10,905|  11,147|  11,916|  11,242|   9,890|   9,133|   8,842|   8,119|   7,815|   8,390|   9,466
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,         |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |
   and humanities ..................................| 158,040| 165,106| 170,817| 174,970| 181,341| 186,248| 181,977| 187,454| 196,843| 207,163| 216,814| 227,650
Library science ....................................|      85|     118|     101|      94|     126|      96|      86|      98|     103|      96|      87|     114
Mathematics ........................................|     743|     704|     782|     758|     792|     844|     823|     675|     695|     685|     732|     801
Mechanics and repairers ............................|  10,981|  11,348|  11,503|  12,519|  12,126|  10,576|  10,781|  11,678|  12,689|  12,063|  11,994|  12,553
Military technologies ..............................|      52|     265|     364|     556|     556|      22|      42|      65|     120|      62|      85|     293
Multi/interdisciplinary studies ....................|   8,504|   8,450|   8,719|   8,619|   9,182|   9,402|   8,661|  11,784|  10,439|  13,205|  14,067|  14,794
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies ....|     693|     731|     829|     897|     885|     840|     819|     819|     790|     764|     811|     923
Personal and culinary services .....................|   4,694|   5,177|   5,627|   7,720|   8,172|   7,648|   8,933|   9,203|   9,786|   9,325|  12,593|  14,239
Philosophy and religion ............................|     111|      82|      81|      84|      91|     101|     297|     209|     299|     359|     379|     404
Physical sciences and science technologies .........|   2,241|   2,546|   2,456|   2,612|   2,526|   2,286|   2,399|   2,460|   2,337|   2,308|   2,190|   2,676
  Physical sciences ................................|   1,390|   1,567|   1,645|   1,749|   1,728|   1,584|   1,679|   1,350|   1,207|   1,346|   1,141|   1,588
  Science technologies .............................|     851|     979|     811|     863|     798|     702|     720|   1,110|   1,130|     962|   1,049|   1,088
Precision production trades ........................|   1,569|   1,611|   1,601|   1,727|   1,773|   1,929|   2,201|   2,308|   2,256|   2,260|   2,279|   1,968
Psychology .........................................|   1,237|   1,377|   1,600|   1,583|   1,612|   1,765|   1,625|   1,455|   1,554|   1,705|   1,784|   1,887
Public administration and social services ..........|   3,301|   3,696|   3,882|   4,218|   4,270|   4,156|   3,881|   3,656|   3,333|   3,323|   3,533|   3,728
Security and protective services ...................|  16,834|  18,199|  19,709|  19,196|  19,889|  19,002|  17,430|  16,298|  16,425|  16,689|  18,571|  20,573
  Criminal justice and corrections .................|  14,295|  15,262|  16,584|  15,990|  16,644|  15,915|  14,448|  13,487|  13,589|  13,603|  15,136|  17,040
  Fire control and safety ..........................|   2,020|   2,243|   2,447|   2,523|   2,638|   2,480|   2,395|   2,364|   2,346|   2,619|   2,917|   3,012
  Security and protective services, other ..........|     519|     694|     678|     683|     607|     607|     587|     447|     490|     467|     518|     521
Social sciences and history ........................|   3,930|   3,936|   3,634|   4,021|   4,056|   4,196|   4,550|   5,136|   5,132|   5,593|   5,738|   6,245
  Social sciences ..................................|   3,656|   3,635|   3,349|   3,727|   3,741|   3,910|   4,254|   4,812|   4,877|   5,304|   5,422|   5,875
  History ..........................................|     274|     301|     285|     294|     315|     286|     296|     324|     255|     289|     316|     370
Theology and religious vocations ...................|     508|     641|     607|     608|     574|     570|     476|     636|     576|     414|     425|     492
Transportation and material moving workers .........|   2,190|   1,900|   1,434|   1,551|   1,572|     977|   1,101|     956|   1,028|   1,122|   1,202|   1,217
Visual and performing arts .........................|  12,690|  13,227|  12,544|  13,534|  13,593|  14,980|  17,640|  17,100|  18,435|  20,911|  23,127|  23,949
  Fine arts, general ...............................|   1,346|   1,473|   1,420|   1,515|   1,516|   1,281|   3,029|   1,314|   1,435|   1,521|   1,763|   1,326
  Design and music .................................|   9,699|  10,173|   9,805|  10,579|  10,459|  11,591|  12,026|  12,780|  14,410|  16,388|  18,503|  18,836
  Visual and performing arts, other ................|   1,645|   1,581|   1,319|   1,440|   1,618|   2,108|   2,585|   3,006|   2,590|   3,002|   2,861|   3,787
Not classified by field of study ...................|   6,602|   1,526|   1,146|   1,591|   7,606|   3,017|   2,494|   2,798|     584|     365|       0|       0
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\1\Data were imputed for 1998-99 using alternative procedures. (See Guide to Sources for details.)
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1992-93 through 2003-04 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, "Completions Survey" (IPEDS-C:93-99), and Fall 2000 through Fall 2004. (This table was prepared July 2005.)


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