Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, racial/ethnic group, and major field of study: 2003-04

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Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, racial/ethnic group, and major field of study: 2003-04

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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 .............................|665,301| 456,047|81,183|72,270|  33,149|   8,119|  14,533| 260,033| 183,819|25,961|27,828|  13,907|   2,740|   5,778| 405,268| 272,228|55,222|44,442|  19,242|   5,379|   8,755
                                                  |_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|________|________|______|______|________|________|________|________|________|______|______|________|________|________
Agriculture and natural resources ................|  6,283|   5,887|    61|   117|      45|      92|      81|   3,928|   3,696|    42|    69|      24|      56|      41|   2,355|   2,191|    19|    48|      21|      36|      40
Architecture and related services ................|    492|     330|    35|    85|      12|       2|      28|     180|      98|    22|    44|       7|       1|       8|     312|     232|    13|    41|       5|       1|      20
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies .......|    105|      20|    21|    13|       2|      46|       3|      40|       9|     7|     6|       0|      18|       0|      65|      11|    14|     7|       2|      28|       3
Biological and biomedical sciences ...............|  1,456|     912|   115|   185|     147|      48|      49|     471|     316|    34|    55|      42|       9|      15|     985|     596|    81|   130|     105|      39|      34
Business .........................................|106,304|  68,615|16,359|10,764|   5,963|   1,304|   3,299|  35,720|  24,526| 4,247| 3,427|   1,972|     371|   1,177|  70,584|  44,089|12,112| 7,337|   3,991|     933|   2,122
                                                  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |
Communications, journalism, and related programs .|  2,444|   1,779|   266|   204|      81|      28|      86|   1,188|     902|   106|   105|      30|      19|      26|   1,256|     877|   160|    99|      51|       9|      60
Communications technologies ......................|  3,401|   2,506|   294|   322|     124|      58|      97|   1,926|   1,409|   166|   210|      65|      34|      42|   1,475|   1,097|   128|   112|      59|      24|      55
Computer and information sciences ................| 41,845|  27,160| 6,485| 4,084|   2,666|     412|   1,038|  28,717|  19,540| 3,706| 2,839|   1,774|     242|     616|  13,128|   7,620| 2,779| 1,245|     892|     170|     422
Construction trades ..............................|  3,560|   3,095|   186|   150|      70|      54|       5|   3,360|   2,940|   177|   137|      63|      41|       2|     200|     155|     9|    13|       7|      13|       3
Education ........................................| 12,465|   7,931| 2,066| 1,689|     199|     457|     123|   2,198|   1,452|   287|   298|      49|      87|      25|  10,267|   6,479| 1,779| 1,391|     150|     370|      98
                                                  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |
Engineering ......................................|  2,737|   1,573|   298|   530|     175|      43|     118|   2,160|   1,277|   227|   396|     138|      25|      97|     577|     296|    71|   134|      37|      18|      21
Engineering technologies\1\ ......................| 36,915|  26,158| 4,033| 3,983|   1,848|     429|     464|  31,452|  22,569| 3,176| 3,442|   1,563|     328|     374|   5,463|   3,589|   857|   541|     285|     101|      90
English language and literature/letters ..........|    828|     531|    73|   140|      52|      10|      22|     266|     158|    21|    50|      29|       3|       5|     562|     373|    52|    90|      23|       7|      17
Family and consumer sciences .....................|  9,478|   4,991| 2,153| 1,677|     330|     171|     156|     394|     229|    63|    63|      18|       9|      12|   9,084|   4,762| 2,090| 1,614|     312|     162|     144
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics ..|  1,047|     723|    51|   192|      24|      18|      39|     180|     114|     6|    43|      11|       3|       3|     867|     609|    45|   149|      13|      15|      36
                                                  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |
Health professions and related clinical sciences .|106,208|  78,649|13,617| 8,219|   3,771|   1,088|     864|  13,837|   9,660| 1,584| 1,454|     802|     154|     183|  92,371|  68,989|12,033| 6,765|   2,969|     934|     681
Legal professions and studies ....................|  9,466|   6,410| 1,702| 1,030|     161|     120|      43|     939|     580|   201|   116|      21|      14|       7|   8,527|   5,830| 1,501|   914|     140|     106|      36
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,       |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |
   and humanities ................................|227,650| 154,929|23,837|27,705|  12,650|   2,547|   5,982|  83,216|  57,967| 7,674| 9,462|   4,935|     789|   2,389| 144,434|  96,962|16,163|18,243|   7,715|   1,758|   3,593
Library science ..................................|    114|      97|     1|     5|       7|       3|       1|      13|      11|     0|     2|       0|       0|       0|     101|      86|     1|     3|       7|       3|       1
Mathematics and statistics .......................|    801|     461|    38|   138|     106|      11|      47|     502|     294|    23|    87|      60|       5|      33|     299|     167|    15|    51|      46|       6|      14
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Mechanics and repair technologies ................| 12,553|   9,705|   829| 1,165|     607|     147|     100|  11,825|   9,240|   735| 1,083|     543|     134|      90|     728|     465|    94|    82|      64|      13|      10
Military technologies ............................|    293|     176|    73|    32|       9|       3|       0|     240|     152|    52|    26|       8|       2|       0|      53|      24|    21|     6|       1|       1|       0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies ..................| 14,794|   9,863| 1,463| 1,673|   1,311|     124|     360|   6,404|   4,329|   670|   671|     542|      45|     147|   8,390|   5,534|   793| 1,002|     769|      79|     213
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies ...|    923|     717|    98|    48|      21|      13|      26|     540|     408|    67|    28|      15|       7|      15|     383|     309|    31|    20|       6|       6|      11
Philosophy and religious studies .................|    404|     335|    14|    29|      18|       0|       8|     104|      72|     7|    16|       8|       0|       1|     300|     263|     7|    13|      10|       0|       7
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Physical sciences and science technologies .......|  2,676|   1,817|   223|   252|     244|      32|     108|   1,540|   1,078|   113|   157|     124|      16|      52|   1,136|     739|   110|    95|     120|      16|      56
Precision production .............................|  1,968|   1,733|    63|    88|      45|      34|       5|   1,828|   1,615|    59|    82|      42|      25|       5|     140|     118|     4|     6|       3|       9|       0
Psychology .......................................|  1,887|   1,206|   166|   354|      80|      37|      44|     434|     272|    39|    80|      22|       9|      12|   1,453|     934|   127|   274|      58|      28|      32
Public administration and social service          |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |
   professions ...................................|  3,728|   1,957|   966|   558|     112|      90|      45|     444|     195|   130|    85|      15|      14|       5|   3,284|   1,762|   836|   473|      97|      76|      40
Security and protective services .................| 20,573|  14,784| 2,494| 2,491|     484|     267|      53|  12,002|   9,397|   861| 1,298|     312|     111|      23|   8,571|   5,387| 1,633| 1,193|     172|     156|      30
                                                  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |        |        |        |      |      |        |        |
Social sciences and history ......................|  6,245|   3,580|   749| 1,155|     429|     157|     175|   2,088|   1,244|   214|   377|     151|      43|      59|   4,157|   2,336|   535|   778|     278|     114|     116
  Social sciences ................................|  5,875|   3,304|   735| 1,094|     417|     152|     173|   1,883|   1,090|   205|   340|     148|      42|      58|   3,992|   2,214|   530|   754|     269|     110|     115
  History ........................................|    370|     276|    14|    61|      12|       5|       2|     205|     154|     9|    37|       3|       1|       1|     165|     122|     5|    24|       9|       4|       1
Theology and religious vocations .................|    492|     338|   112|    11|       8|       7|      16|     220|     134|    61|     8|       4|       2|      11|     272|     204|    51|     3|       4|       5|       5
Transportation and materials moving ..............|  1,217|     921|    69|   135|      45|      12|      35|   1,035|     802|    52|   109|      42|       8|      22|     182|     119|    17|    26|       3|       4|      13
Visual and performing arts .......................| 23,949|  16,158| 2,173| 3,047|   1,303|     255|   1,013|  10,642|   7,134| 1,132| 1,503|     476|     116|     281|  13,307|   9,024| 1,041| 1,544|     827|     139|     732
__________________________________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|________|________|______|______|________|________|________|________|________|______|______|________|________|________

\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, 2003-04 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2004. (This table was prepared July 2005.)

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