Table 311.

Certificates below the associate's degree level conferred by degree-granting and non-degree-granting institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, institution level and control, and discipline division: 2010-11

Discipline division	Less-than-1-year awards					1- to less-than-4-year awards
	Total	Sex		Institution level		Total	Sex		Institution level		Institution control
		Males	Females	Non-degree-granting (less-than-2-year)	Degree-granting (2-year and 4-year)		Males	Females	Non-degree-granting (less-than-2-year)	Degree-granting (2-year and 4-year)	Public	Non- profit	For- profit
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Total	482,947	201,362	281,585	134,563	348,384	546,610	190,321	356,289	235,014	311,596	218,049	18,623	309,938
Agriculture and natural resources, total	3,636	2,370	1,266	192	3,444	2,511	1,566	945	264	2,247	2,328	101	82
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences     related sciences	2,821	1,688	1,133	192	2,629	2,377	1,468	909	256	2,121	2,214	81	82
Natural resources and conservation	815	682	133	0	815	134	98	36	8	126	114	20	0
Architecture and related services	219	141	78	0	219	125	66	59	25	100	114	11	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	415	120	295	0	415	72	19	53	0	72	71	1	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	162	66	96	6	156	86	32	54	61	25	34	3	49
Business, management, marketing, and support services	42,599	13,370	29,229	6,134	36,465	23,591	6,380	17,211	4,559	19,032	19,006	1,537	3,048
Accounting and related services	8,013	1,912	6,101	760	7,253	5,793	1,355	4,438	909	4,884	4,554	484	755
Business/commerce, general	1,128	491	637	4	1,124	1,298	696	602	13	1,285	1,275	0	23
Business administration, management, and operations	6,777	2,660	4,117	69	6,708	3,162	1,140	2,022	163	2,999	2,570	382	210
Management information systems and services	904	562	342	228	676	889	579	310	314	575	640	0	249
Business operations support and assistant services	12,462	2,581	9,881	2,290	10,172	8,332	1,156	7,176	2,533	5,799	6,481	454	1,397
Business and management, other	13,315	5,164	8,151	2,783	10,532	4,117	1,454	2,663	627	3,490	3,486	217	414
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,436	1,422	1,014	1,380	1,056	728	415	313	325	403	232	152	344
Communications technologies	2,268	1,571	697	795	1,473	2,684	2,011	673	1,538	1,146	1,351	60	1,273
Computer and information sciences and support services	17,332	11,932	5,400	3,527	13,805	10,493	7,724	2,769	2,740	7,753	6,189	424	3,880
Construction trades	12,021	11,320	701	2,036	9,985	17,529	16,648	881	4,823	12,706	10,467	651	6,411
Education	5,095	639	4,456	177	4,918	3,211	410	2,801	617	2,594	2,337	544	330
Engineering	360	304	56	28	332	194	159	35	74	120	147	41	6
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	16,563	14,530	2,033	3,080	13,483	20,238	18,381	1,857	7,133	13,105	8,056	363	11,819
English language and literature/letters	2,315	802	1,513	810	1,505	198	61	137	25	173	82	16	100
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	13,806	1,740	12,066	1,492	12,314	3,192	253	2,939	298	2,894	3,112	56	24
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	967	206	761	0	967	543	80	463	0	543	521	22	0
Health professions and related programs	213,619	41,496	172,123	67,108	146,511	249,418	35,416	214,002	98,617	150,801	76,056	9,578	163,784
Dental assisting	9,814	967	8,847	3,477	6,337	17,089	1,673	15,416	6,088	11,001	4,497	73	12,519
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)     paramedic)	17,281	11,548	5,733	1,650	15,631	4,835	3,574	1,261	539	4,296	4,213	224	398
Medical lab technician	12,060	2,397	9,663	2,954	9,106	4,011	1,129	2,882	1,049	2,962	2,496	411	1,104
Medical assisting	57,444	9,664	47,780	19,357	38,087	95,217	11,417	83,800	43,413	51,804	9,472	1,607	84,138
Nursing assisting	48,353	6,657	41,696	10,881	37,472	1,505	149	1,356	340	1,165	466	47	992
Practical nursing	6,481	794	5,687	412	6,069	57,884	7,314	50,570	20,242	37,642	38,569	2,225	17,090
Nursing, R.N. and other	2,328	288	2,040	40	2,288	4,346	582	3,764	2,583	1,763	1,538	2,539	269
Health sciences, other	59,858	9,181	50,677	28,337	31,521	64,531	9,578	54,953	24,363	40,168	14,805	2,452	47,274
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	24,233	18,744	5,489	3,254	20,979	7,790	5,135	2,655	315	7,475	6,682	155	953
Criminal justice and corrections	16,737	11,994	4,743	1,358	15,379	6,405	3,943	2,462	293	6,112	5,485	21	899
Fire control and safety	6,506	6,062	444	1,484	5,022	1,141	1,087	54	22	1,119	1,141	0	0
Homeland security and related protective services, other	990	688	302	412	578	244	105	139	0	244	56	134	54
Legal professions and studies	2,368	339	2,029	230	2,138	3,510	561	2,949	750	2,760	2,181	226	1,103
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	2,417	845	1,572	0	2,417	23,579	9,499	14,080	0	23,579	23,558	21	0
Library science	213	30	183	0	213	73	3	70	0	73	73	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	61	50	11	0	61	14	11	3	0	14	13	1	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	33,700	31,881	1,819	5,545	28,155	55,482	53,357	2,125	27,262	28,220	22,170	731	32,581
Military technologies and applied sciences	32	25	7	0	32	88	73	15	0	88	88	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	1,530	774	756	25	1,505	1,309	559	750	0	1,309	1,289	20	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	912	509	403	231	681	829	513	316	310	519	269	0	560
Personal and culinary services	37,152	6,939	30,213	25,959	11,193	93,554	12,699	80,855	78,880	14,674	13,703	1,205	78,646
Philosophy and religious studies	90	41	49	0	90	34	20	14	0	34	1	33	0
Physical sciences and science technologies	633	373	260	222	411	541	354	187	22	519	500	0	41
Physical sciences	87	44	43	0	87	9	6	3	0	9	9	0	0
Science technologies/technicians	546	329	217	222	324	532	348	184	22	510	491	0	41
Precision production	16,095	15,274	821	2,005	14,090	13,269	12,588	681	4,237	9,032	9,674	655	2,940
Psychology	15	6	9	0	15	54	7	47	0	54	46	8	0
Public administration and social services	1,167	230	937	15	1,152	654	143	511	0	654	640	14	0
Social sciences and history	565	332	233	0	565	296	174	122	0	296	260	36	0
Social sciences	539	329	210	0	539	295	173	122	0	295	260	35	0
History	26	3	23	0	26	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
Theology and religious vocations	135	54	81	0	135	1,061	472	589	621	440	0	1,060	1
Transportation and materials moving	22,587	20,768	1,819	8,693	13,894	980	920	60	420	560	589	28	363
Visual and performing arts	5,229	2,119	3,110	1,619	3,610	8,680	3,612	5,068	1,098	7,582	6,210	870	1,600
Fine and studio arts	1,369	412	957	1,244	125	4,325	1,605	2,720	8	4,317	4,303	19	3
Music and dance	433	312	121	68	365	474	325	149	140	334	117	162	195
Visual and performing arts, other	3,427	1,395	2,032	307	3,120	3,881	1,682	2,199	950	2,931	1,790	689	1,402

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

NOTE: Includes both degree-granting and non-degree-granting institutions that participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Degree-granting institutions grant degrees at the associate's or higher level, while non-degree-granting institutions grant only awards below that level.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2011, Completions component. (This table was prepared June 2012.)