Table 298.

Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2009-10

Field of study	Total							Males							Females
	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent alien	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent alien	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent 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	849,452	552,863	113,905	112,211	44,021	10,337	16,115	322,916	216,072	36,136	42,232	18,264	3,624	6,588	526,536	336,791	77,769	69,979	25,757	6,713	9,527
Agriculture and natural resources	5,894	5,350	68	252	43	155	26	3,783	3,467	43	164	20	75	14	2,111	1,883	25	88	23	80	12
Architecture and related services	552	318	25	138	52	2	17	266	126	15	85	29	2	9	286	192	10	53	23	0	8
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	199	41	38	31	5	79	5	75	10	27	10	4	23	1	124	31	11	21	1	56	4
Biological and biomedical sciences	2,664	1,407	246	499	352	55	105	851	448	76	149	109	17	52	1,813	959	170	350	243	38	53
Business	133,371	81,899	22,195	15,904	7,677	1,692	4,004	48,168	30,563	6,663	5,889	3,004	497	1,552	85,203	51,336	15,532	10,015	4,673	1,195	2,452
Communications, journalism, and related programs	2,839	1,887	278	412	138	26	98	1,327	928	120	172	67	11	29	1,512	959	158	240	71	15	69
Communications technologies	4,419	3,171	525	397	177	47	102	3,038	2,170	380	288	105	26	69	1,381	1,001	145	109	72	21	33
Computer and information sciences	32,466	21,309	5,253	3,443	1,618	342	501	24,682	16,655	3,493	2,677	1,284	237	336	7,784	4,654	1,760	766	334	105	165
Construction trades	4,617	3,749	412	285	86	72	13	4,350	3,564	373	257	75	70	11	267	185	39	28	11	2	2
Education	17,048	11,346	2,392	2,297	328	496	189	2,352	1,646	303	244	45	84	30	14,696	9,700	2,089	2,053	283	412	159
Engineering	2,508	1,637	172	305	222	20	152	2,176	1,456	147	252	184	14	123	332	181	25	53	38	6	29
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	31,850	22,306	3,814	3,809	1,309	318	294	27,562	19,536	3,125	3,300	1,121	251	229	4,288	2,770	689	509	188	67	65
English language and literature/letters	1,658	908	165	402	122	23	38	561	307	50	152	36	7	9	1,097	601	115	250	86	16	29
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	9,573	5,179	2,127	1,652	375	123	117	495	238	110	90	39	10	8	9,078	4,941	2,017	1,562	336	113	109
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,683	1,141	85	357	52	7	41	318	193	10	87	16	1	11	1,365	948	75	270	36	6	30
Health professions and related programs	177,686	124,009	24,138	16,655	9,266	1,797	1,821	25,904	16,692	3,066	2,957	2,466	280	443	151,782	107,317	21,072	13,698	6,800	1,517	1,378
Homeland security, law enforcement, firefighting, and    related protective services	37,260	23,559	6,137	6,213	763	437	151	19,876	14,251	1,928	2,939	482	198	78	17,384	9,308	4,209	3,274	281	239	73
Legal professions and studies	10,003	6,340	1,804	1,426	255	119	59	1,203	698	224	197	52	25	7	8,800	5,642	1,580	1,229	203	94	52
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	284,775	181,450	34,785	44,147	14,753	3,406	6,234	110,701	72,694	11,868	16,071	6,236	1,206	2,626	174,074	108,756	22,917	28,076	8,517	2,200	3,608
Library science	112	89	5	9	7	2	0	20	16	0	1	3	0	0	92	73	5	8	4	2	0
Mathematics and statistics	1,051	511	53	267	151	8	61	725	355	46	179	96	7	42	326	156	7	88	55	1	19
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	16,305	11,785	1,524	1,977	628	279	112	15,479	11,227	1,407	1,878	594	263	110	826	558	117	99	34	16	2
Military technologies and applied sciences	668	493	68	70	27	10	0	531	405	44	56	19	7	0	137	88	24	14	8	3	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	17,671	10,163	1,271	3,226	2,412	120	479	6,960	4,216	458	1,106	925	42	213	10,711	5,947	813	2,120	1,487	78	266
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	2,016	1,321	292	268	77	26	32	1,223	802	199	145	49	14	14	793	519	93	123	28	12	18
Philosophy and religious studies	256	151	48	37	9	5	6	163	101	23	27	6	4	2	93	50	25	10	3	1	4
Physical sciences and science technologies	4,140	2,603	363	526	394	44	210	2,549	1,642	197	331	214	24	141	1,591	961	166	195	180	20	69
Precision production	2,787	2,388	116	145	71	52	15	2,609	2,235	109	138	71	45	11	178	153	7	7	0	7	4
Psychology	6,582	4,138	865	1,116	269	113	81	1,271	775	147	236	73	24	16	5,311	3,363	718	880	196	89	65
Public administration and social service professions	4,526	2,329	1,341	641	100	89	26	662	331	189	103	16	17	6	3,864	1,998	1,152	538	84	72	20
Social sciences and history	10,649	5,426	1,277	2,599	974	172	201	3,809	2,077	393	826	382	52	79	6,840	3,349	884	1,773	592	120	122
Social sciences	10,108	5,047	1,250	2,494	952	167	198	3,499	1,868	376	760	368	48	79	6,609	3,179	874	1,734	584	119	119
History	541	379	27	105	22	5	3	310	209	17	66	14	4	0	231	170	10	39	8	1	3
Theology and religious vocations	613	424	130	34	7	7	11	306	206	67	20	5	4	4	307	218	63	14	2	3	7
Transportation and materials moving	1,444	1,091	84	151	65	20	33	1,235	958	69	123	50	19	16	209	133	15	28	15	1	17
Visual and performing arts	19,567	12,945	1,809	2,521	1,237	174	881	7,686	5,084	767	1,083	387	68	297	11,881	7,861	1,042	1,438	850	106	584
Other and not classified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians," which are listed separately.

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. 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, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010, Completions component. (This table was prepared November 2011.)