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Table 270. | Associate's degrees and other subbaccalaureate awards conferred by degree-granting institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, and discipline division: 2007-08 |
Discipline division | Less-than-1-year awards | 1- to less-than-4-year awards | Associate's degrees | ||||||
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Total | Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | Total | Males | Females | |
1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 |
Total | 260,629 | 119,385 | 141,244 | 190,086 | 72,450 | 117,636 | 750,164 | 282,521 | 467,643 |
Agriculture and natural resources, total | 3,433 | 2,538 | 895 | 1,636 | 1,022 | 614 | 5,738 | 3,598 | 2,140 |
Agriculture, agriculture operations and related sciences |
2,425 | 1,641 | 784 | 1,575 | 982 | 593 | 4,554 | 2,683 | 1,871 |
Natural resources and conservation | 1,008 | 897 | 111 | 61 | 40 | 21 | 1,184 | 915 | 269 |
Architecture and related services | 224 | 145 | 79 | 201 | 63 | 138 | 568 | 260 | 308 |
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies | 406 | 121 | 285 | 99 | 34 | 65 | 169 | 59 | 110 |
Biological and biomedical sciences | 66 | 32 | 34 | 41 | 14 | 27 | 2,200 | 667 | 1,533 |
Business, management, and marketing | 33,831 | 10,859 | 22,972 | 15,145 | 3,832 | 11,313 | 104,566 | 34,774 | 69,792 |
Accounting | 4,595 | 896 | 3,699 | 3,301 | 628 | 2,673 | 15,965 | 3,452 | 12,513 |
Business, general | 997 | 592 | 405 | 790 | 387 | 403 | 12,473 | 4,957 | 7,516 |
Business administration and management | 7,775 | 3,019 | 4,756 | 3,241 | 1,211 | 2,030 | 52,560 | 20,318 | 32,242 |
Business and management, other | 11,812 | 4,197 | 7,615 | 2,604 | 1,097 | 1,507 | 14,490 | 4,664 | 9,826 |
Management information systems | 413 | 302 | 111 | 398 | 239 | 159 | 1,237 | 773 | 464 |
Secretarial and related programs | 8,239 | 1,853 | 6,386 | 4,811 | 270 | 4,541 | 7,841 | 610 | 7,231 |
Communications | 669 | 238 | 431 | 472 | 291 | 181 | 2,620 | 1,271 | 1,349 |
Communications technologies | 723 | 416 | 307 | 762 | 526 | 236 | 4,237 | 2,968 | 1,269 |
Computer and information sciences | 9,322 | 6,130 | 3,192 | 4,530 | 2,940 | 1,590 | 28,296 | 21,191 | 7,105 |
Construction trades | 9,425 | 8,973 | 452 | 8,018 | 7,725 | 293 | 4,309 | 4,106 | 203 |
Education | 3,343 | 455 | 2,888 | 1,809 | 169 | 1,640 | 13,108 | 1,914 | 11,194 |
Engineering | 186 | 156 | 30 | 148 | 137 | 11 | 2,286 | 1,986 | 300 |
Engineering-related technologies | 9,150 | 7,592 | 1,558 | 6,432 | 5,593 | 839 | 29,334 | 25,261 | 4,073 |
English language and literature/letters | 875 | 318 | 557 | 294 | 130 | 164 | 1,402 | 484 | 918 |
Family and consumer sciences | 11,200 | 1,771 | 9,429 | 3,350 | 648 | 2,702 | 8,613 | 344 | 8,269 |
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics | 837 | 208 | 629 | 417 | 42 | 375 | 1,258 | 216 | 1,042 |
Health professions and related sciences | 96,669 | 19,235 | 77,434 | 88,865 | 11,996 | 76,869 | 155,816 | 22,934 | 132,882 |
Dental assisting | 3,377 | 222 | 3,155 | 5,481 | 233 | 5,248 | 6,642 | 276 | 6,366 |
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic) |
12,384 | 8,641 | 3,743 | 3,447 | 2,714 | 733 | 2,140 | 1,468 | 672 |
Medical lab technician | 213 | 24 | 189 | 551 | 318 | 233 | 2,152 | 525 | 1,627 |
Medical assisting | 12,247 | 835 | 11,412 | 14,255 | 762 | 13,493 | 11,261 | 579 | 10,682 |
Nursing assisting | 24,469 | 2,540 | 21,929 | 772 | 41 | 731 | 329 | 44 | 285 |
Practical nursing | 4,824 | 525 | 4,299 | 30,890 | 3,125 | 27,765 | 1,417 | 161 | 1,256 |
Nursing, R.N. and other | 1,730 | 164 | 1,566 | 4,224 | 576 | 3,648 | 73,277 | 9,233 | 64,044 |
Health sciences, other | 37,425 | 6,284 | 31,141 | 29,245 | 4,227 | 25,018 | 58,598 | 10,648 | 47,950 |
Legal professions and studies | 1,382 | 184 | 1,198 | 2,104 | 290 | 1,814 | 9,465 | 1,010 | 8,455 |
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities |
328 | 76 | 252 | 4,631 | 1,643 | 2,988 | 254,012 | 95,438 | 158,574 |
Library science | 181 | 19 | 162 | 63 | 6 | 57 | 117 | 26 | 91 |
Mathematics | 28 | 26 | 2 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 855 | 575 | 280 |
Mechanics and repairers | 17,776 | 16,732 | 1,044 | 20,578 | 19,724 | 854 | 15,297 | 14,534 | 763 |
Military technologies | 3 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 851 | 694 | 157 |
Multi/interdisciplinary studies | 692 | 343 | 349 | 957 | 346 | 611 | 16,255 | 6,549 | 9,706 |
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies |
357 | 189 | 168 | 279 | 116 | 163 | 1,344 | 809 | 535 |
Personal and culinary services | 7,216 | 1,686 | 5,530 | 9,987 | 1,906 | 8,081 | 16,592 | 8,471 | 8,121 |
Philosophy and religion | 11 | 4 | 7 | 91 | 43 | 48 | 458 | 137 | 321 |
Physical sciences and science technologies | 306 | 162 | 144 | 384 | 238 | 146 | 3,388 | 1,954 | 1,434 |
Physical sciences | 55 | 28 | 27 | 17 | 3 | 14 | 1,973 | 1,140 | 833 |
Science technologies | 251 | 134 | 117 | 367 | 235 | 132 | 1,415 | 814 | 601 |
Precision production trades | 7,312 | 6,894 | 418 | 5,513 | 5,281 | 232 | 1,968 | 1,838 | 130 |
Psychology | 75 | 24 | 51 | 46 | 10 | 36 | 2,412 | 554 | 1,858 |
Public administration and social services | 930 | 212 | 718 | 672 | 130 | 542 | 4,192 | 569 | 3,623 |
Security and protective services | 20,163 | 15,425 | 4,738 | 5,191 | 3,848 | 1,343 | 29,590 | 16,051 | 13,539 |
Criminal justice and corrections | 14,884 | 10,586 | 4,298 | 4,189 | 2,919 | 1,270 | 25,588 | 12,384 | 13,204 |
Fire control and safety | 5,122 | 4,746 | 376 | 918 | 867 | 51 | 3,937 | 3,632 | 305 |
Security and protective services, other | 157 | 93 | 64 | 84 | 62 | 22 | 65 | 35 | 30 |
Social sciences and history | 442 | 219 | 223 | 187 | 110 | 77 | 7,812 | 2,759 | 5,053 |
Social sciences | 411 | 212 | 199 | 183 | 106 | 77 | 7,358 | 2,499 | 4,859 |
History | 31 | 7 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 0 | 454 | 260 | 194 |
Theology and religious vocations | 149 | 54 | 95 | 360 | 183 | 177 | 582 | 282 | 300 |
Transportation and material moving workers | 17,394 | 15,851 | 1,543 | 883 | 807 | 76 | 1,550 | 1,308 | 242 |
Visual and performing arts | 5,525 | 2,095 | 3,430 | 5,938 | 2,604 | 3,334 | 18,890 | 6,927 | 11,963 |
Fine arts, general | 2,664 | 967 | 1,697 | 2,414 | 903 | 1,511 | 1,711 | 567 | 1,144 |
Design and music | 2,287 | 860 | 1,427 | 2,236 | 965 | 1,271 | 14,296 | 4,971 | 9,325 |
Visual and performing arts, other | 574 | 268 | 306 | 1,288 | 736 | 552 | 2,883 | 1,389 | 1,494 |
Not classified by field of study | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 3 | 11 |
NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. | |||||||||
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2007-08 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2008. (This table was prepared July 2009.) |