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Table 260. Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, racial/ethnic group, and major field of study: 2002-03
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                                                  |                             Total                       |                              Males                       |                            Females
                                                  |_________________________________________________________|__________________________________________________________|__________________________________________________________
                                                  |       |        |Black,|      |        |American|        |        |        |Black,|      |        |American|        |        |        |Black,|      |        |American|
                                                  |       |  White,|  non-|      |  Asian/| Indian/|Nonresi-|        |  White,|  non-|      |  Asian/| Indian/|Nonresi-|        |  White,|  non-|      |  Asian/| Indian/|Nonresi-
                                                  |       |    non-|  His-|  His-| Pacific|  Alaska|    dent|        |    non-|  His-|  His-| Pacific|  Alaska|    dent|        |    non-|  His-|  His-| Pacific|  Alaska|   dent
Major field of study                              |  Total|Hispanic| panic| panic|Islander|  Native|   alien|   Total|Hispanic| panic| panic|Islander|  Native|   alien|   Total|Hispanic| panic| panic|Islander|  Native|  alien
__________________________________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|________|________|______|______|________|________|________|________|________|______|______|________|________|________
1                                                 |      2|       3|     4|     5|       6|       7|       8|       9|      10|    11|    12|      13|      14|      15|      16|      17|    18|    19|      20|      21|      22
__________________________________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|________|________|______|______|________|________|________|________|________|______|______|________|________|________
   All fields, total .............................|632,912| 437,794|75,430|66,175|  32,610|   7,462|  13,441| 253,060| 178,959|25,518|26,300|  14,048|   2,619|   5,616| 379,852| 258,835|49,912|39,875|  18,562|   4,843|   7,825
                                                  |_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|________|________|______|______|________|________|________|________|________|______|______|________|________|________
Agriculture and natural resources ................|  6,208|   5,843|    50|   143|      34|      98|      40|   3,946|   3,728|    32|    76|      20|      65|      25|   2,262|   2,115|    18|    67|      14|      33|      15
Architecture and related services ................|    440|     334|    31|    37|      22|       3|      13|     109|      72|    16|    14|       5|       0|       2|     331|     262|    15|    23|      17|       3|      11
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies .......|    126|      21|    24|    24|       3|      48|       6|      33|       4|     6|     8|       1|      13|       1|      93|      17|    18|    16|       2|      35|       5
Biological and biomedical sciences ...............|  1,496|     987|   126|   188|     128|      24|      43|     443|     300|    32|    58|      32|       4|      17|   1,053|     687|    94|   130|      96|      20|      26
Business .........................................|102,157|  66,982|15,439|10,047|   5,554|   1,194|   2,941|  33,940|  23,184| 4,245| 3,266|   1,793|     329|   1,123|  68,217|  43,798|11,194| 6,781|   3,761|     865|   1,818
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Communications, journalism, and related programs .|  2,602|   1,926|   267|   237|      90|      22|      60|   1,253|     948|   114|   122|      39|       6|      24|   1,349|     978|   153|   115|      51|      16|      36
Communications technologies ......................|  3,300|   2,488|   303|   272|     102|      32|     103|   1,796|   1,349|   176|   169|      51|      17|      34|   1,504|   1,139|   127|   103|      51|      15|      69
Computer and information sciences ................| 46,089|  29,806| 7,036| 4,412|   3,216|     444|   1,175|  30,654|  20,905| 3,828| 2,979|   2,033|     248|     661|  15,435|   8,901| 3,208| 1,433|   1,183|     196|     514
Construction trades ..............................|  3,001|   2,592|   163|   138|      48|      53|       7|   2,845|   2,474|   145|   130|      48|      41|       7|     156|     118|    18|     8|       0|      12|       0
Education ........................................| 11,199|   7,439| 1,705| 1,387|     169|     388|     111|   2,186|   1,470|   321|   257|      43|      63|      32|   9,013|   5,969| 1,384| 1,130|     126|     325|      79
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Engineering ......................................|  2,176|   1,373|   224|   335|     144|      22|      78|   1,817|   1,185|   173|   268|     120|      14|      57|     359|     188|    51|    67|      24|       8|      21
Engineering technologies\1\ ......................| 39,957|  27,939| 4,553| 4,099|   2,556|     399|     411|  33,550|  23,773| 3,544| 3,509|   2,111|     294|     319|   6,407|   4,166| 1,009|   590|     445|     105|      92
English language and literature/letters ..........|    896|     614|    85|   110|      47|       9|      31|     272|     178|    30|    36|      17|       6|       5|     624|     436|    55|    74|      30|       3|      26
Family and consumer sciences .....................|  9,471|   5,368| 2,090| 1,413|     328|     133|     139|     386|     209|    73|    60|      29|       4|      11|   9,085|   5,159| 2,017| 1,353|     299|     129|     128
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics ..|  1,050|     775|    53|   161|      24|       8|      29|     208|     143|     7|    39|       8|       1|      10|     842|     632|    46|   122|      16|       7|      19
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Health professions and related clinical sciences .| 90,536|  67,569|11,376| 6,809|   3,170|     921|     691|  11,342|   7,720| 1,398| 1,335|     617|     136|     136|  79,194|  59,849| 9,978| 5,474|   2,553|     785|     555
Legal professions and studies ....................|  8,390|   5,771| 1,457|   856|     155|     105|      46|     876|     525|   185|   116|      30|      11|       9|   7,514|   5,246| 1,272|   740|     125|      94|      37
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,       |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |
   and humanities ................................|216,814| 149,494|21,760|25,215|  12,260|   2,399|   5,686|  79,910|  56,076| 7,243| 8,546|   4,892|     795|   2,358| 136,904|  93,418|14,517|16,669|   7,368|   1,604|   3,328
Library science ..................................|     87|      72|     6|     2|       5|       2|       0|       5|       4|     0|     0|       1|       0|       0|      82|      68|     6|     2|       4|       2|       0
Mathematics and statistics .......................|    732|     392|    42|   131|     108|      13|      46|     465|     244|    25|    98|      60|       8|      30|     267|     148|    17|    33|      48|       5|      16
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Mechanics and repair technologies ................| 11,994|   9,252|   872| 1,021|     560|     163|     126|  11,216|   8,774|   764|   936|     487|     149|     106|     778|     478|   108|    85|      73|      14|      20
Military technologies ............................|     85|      41|    31|    11|       2|       0|       0|      72|      36|    24|    10|       2|       0|       0|      13|       5|     7|     1|       0|       0|       0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies ..................| 14,067|   9,232| 1,527| 1,591|   1,229|     148|     340|   6,121|   4,086|   714|   680|     461|      55|     125|   7,946|   5,146|   813|   911|     768|      93|     215
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies ...|    811|     630|    78|    50|      16|      13|      24|     468|     351|    50|    39|      11|       5|      12|     343|     279|    28|    11|       5|       8|      12
Philosophy and religious studies .................|    379|     308|    15|    26|      16|       0|      14|      93|      73|     5|    10|       3|       0|       2|     286|     235|    10|    16|      13|       0|      12
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Physical sciences and science technologies .......|  2,190|   1,548|   203|   198|     143|      29|      69|   1,212|     864|   102|   122|      80|      11|      33|     978|     684|   101|    76|      63|      18|      36
Precision production .............................|  2,279|   1,976|    79|   105|      81|      34|       4|   2,101|   1,863|    60|    88|      54|      33|       3|     178|     113|    19|    17|      27|       1|       1
Psychology .......................................|  1,784|   1,169|   151|   311|      78|      32|      43|     441|     279|    34|    79|      24|      12|      13|   1,343|     890|   117|   232|      54|      20|      30
Public administration and social service          |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |
   professions ...................................|  3,533|   1,930|   893|   534|      57|      93|      26|     468|     223|   124|   101|      10|       7|       3|   3,065|   1,707|   769|   433|      47|      86|      23
Security and protective services .................| 18,571|  13,450| 2,157| 2,272|     375|     241|      76|  10,986|   8,628|   802| 1,144|     238|     124|      50|   7,585|   4,822| 1,355| 1,128|     137|     117|      26
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Social sciences and history ......................|  5,738|   3,317|   677| 1,062|     398|     138|     146|   1,989|   1,204|   194|   352|     144|      41|      54|   3,749|   2,113|   483|   710|     254|      97|      92
  Social sciences ................................|  5,422|   3,088|   666| 1,004|     383|     136|     145|   1,817|   1,079|   188|   316|     140|      40|      54|   3,605|   2,009|   478|   688|     243|      96|      91
  History ........................................|    316|     229|    11|    58|      15|       2|       1|     172|     125|     6|    36|       4|       1|       0|     144|     104|     5|    22|      11|       1|       1
Theology and religious vocations .................|    425|     301|    91|    14|       3|       3|      13|     190|     124|    49|     6|       1|       2|       8|     235|     177|    42|     8|       2|       1|       5
Transportation and materials moving ..............|  1,202|     930|    65|    88|      44|       6|      69|   1,040|     820|    52|    72|      36|       4|      56|     162|     110|    13|    16|       8|       2|      13
Visual and performing arts .......................| 23,127|  15,925| 1,801| 2,876|   1,445|     245|     835|  10,627|   7,143|   951| 1,575|     547|     121|     290|  12,500|   8,782|   850| 1,301|     898|     124|     545
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\1\Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately.
NOTE: Reported racial/ethnic distributions of students by level of degree, field of degree, and sex were used to estimate race/ethnicity for students whose race/ethnicity was not reported. To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the IPEDS Fall survey: "Agriculture and natural resources" includes Agriculture, agriculture operations and related sciences and Natural resources and conservation; and "Business" includes Business management, marketing, and related support services, and Personal and culinary services.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2002-03 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2003. (This table was prepared December 2004.)


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