Table 252.

Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by field of study: 1993–94 through 2004–05

Field of study	1993–94	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–03	2003–04	2004–05
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Total	530,632	539,691	555,216	571,226	558,555	559,954	564,933	578,865	595,133	632,912	665,301	696,660
Agriculture and natural resources, total	5,625	5,730	6,182	6,463	6,673	6,632	6,666	6,649	6,494	6,208	6,283	6,404
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences	4,294	4,393	4,723	5,021	5,206	5,220	5,292	5,200	5,125	4,890	4,959	5,137
Natural resources and conservation	1,331	1,337	1,459	1,442	1,467	1,412	1,374	1,449	1,369	1,318	1,324	1,267
Architecture and related services	353	277	256	316	265	405	392	417	443	440	492	583
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	75	68	110	82	97	85	113	73	94	126	105	115
Biological and biomedical sciences	1,789	1,861	2,049	2,133	2,113	2,213	1,448	1,443	1,534	1,496	1,456	1,709
Business, management, and marketing	91,612	89,162	90,945	92,228	87,672	86,964	86,106	87,059	86,713	89,564	92,065	96,067
Accounting	15,307	14,970	15,926	16,017	14,807	14,325	13,562	13,158	12,315	13,234	14,506	13,988
Business, general	11,452	11,622	11,397	11,385	11,311	11,514	12,283	12,621	12,936	13,010	13,387	12,050
Business administration and management	29,691	28,967	28,901	29,804	28,793	28,615	28,486	28,947	30,268	33,024	33,652	42,979
Business and management, other	18,310	11,232	15,910	15,197	14,148	14,027	13,398	13,122	13,269	13,352	14,909	13,042
Management information systems	3,094	3,884	4,539	4,936	4,261	4,526	5,394	6,016	6,417	5,602	4,214	2,812
Secretarial and related programs	13,758	18,487	14,272	14,889	14,352	13,957	12,983	13,195	11,508	11,342	11,397	11,196
Communications	2,052	3,160	2,187	2,030	2,368	2,639	2,754	2,949	2,819	2,602	2,444	2,545
Communications technologies	3,420	3,035	2,807	2,863	2,642	2,528	2,625	3,038	3,006	3,300	3,401	3,516
Computer and information sciences	12,630	12,230	12,500	14,607	18,185	22,445	28,185	34,356	40,127	46,089	41,845	36,173
Construction trades	1,695	1,728	2,141	1,928	2,172	2,137	2,337	2,682	2,639	3,001	3,560	3,512
Education	9,301	9,691	9,809	10,587	9,461	10,165	8,510	9,533	9,611	11,199	12,465	13,329
Engineering	2,381	2,191	2,158	1,921	2,118	2,012	1,722	1,795	1,691	2,176	2,737	2,441
Engineering-related technologies	42,453	41,438	40,447	41,349	40,784	42,362	43,732	42,366	40,217	39,957	36,915	33,548
English language and literature/letters	697	895	813	892	1,035	1,032	947	877	864	896	828	995
Family and consumer sciences	6,960	7,234	7,651	7,998	7,811	8,063	8,031	8,329	9,208	9,471	9,478	9,707
Foreign languages and literatures	1,447	1,694	1,612	1,768	1,674	1,705	1,059	1,100	1,085	1,050	1,047	1,234
Health professions and related sciences	96,597	100,714	104,775	102,077	94,940	93,218	86,676	84,656	82,361	90,536	106,208	122,520
Dental assisting	3,989	4,312	4,564	4,866	4,904	6,628	5,569	5,193	5,223	5,466	5,652	5,813
Emergency medical technician-ambulance and paramedic	510	771	889	1,048	975	918	1,152	1,134	1,203	1,398	1,617	1,825
Medical lab technician	2,570	2,769	2,982	2,641	2,370	2,033	1,644	1,502	1,384	1,494	1,678	1,932
Medical assisting	2,785	3,544	4,941	5,019	5,102	5,358	5,414	5,863	4,748	5,846	8,499	10,411
Nursing assisting	6	2	7	13	23	12	7	2	0	8	4	38
Practical nursing	740	772	605	429	499	447	575	619	814	916	1,049	1,388
Nursing, R.N. and other	57,397	57,456	56,469	52,983	47,329	43,029	40,767	40,278	40,800	45,044	51,552	58,007
Health sciences, other	28,600	31,088	34,318	35,078	33,738	34,793	31,548	30,065	28,189	30,364	36,157	43,106
Legal professions and studies	10,905	11,147	11,916	11,242	9,890	9,133	8,842	8,119	7,815	8,390	9,466	9,885
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	165,106	170,817	174,970	181,341	186,248	181,977	187,454	196,843	207,163	216,814	227,650	240,131
Library science	118	101	94	126	96	86	98	103	96	87	114	108
Mathematics	704	782	758	792	844	823	675	695	685	732	801	807
Mechanics and repairers	11,348	11,503	12,519	12,126	10,576	10,781	11,678	12,689	12,063	11,994	12,553	13,619
Military technologies	265	364	556	556	22	42	65	120	62	85	293	355
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	8,450	8,719	8,619	9,182	9,402	8,661	11,784	10,439	13,205	14,067	14,794	13,888
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	731	829	897	885	840	819	819	790	764	811	923	966
Personal and culinary services	5,177	5,627	7,720	8,172	7,648	8,933	9,203	9,786	9,325	12,593	14,239	16,311
Philosophy and religion	82	81	84	91	101	297	209	299	359	379	404	422
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,546	2,456	2,612	2,526	2,286	2,399	2,460	2,337	2,308	2,190	2,676	2,814
Physical sciences	1,567	1,645	1,749	1,728	1,584	1,679	1,350	1,207	1,346	1,141	1,588	1,626
Science technologies	979	811	863	798	702	720	1,110	1,130	962	1,049	1,088	1,188
Precision production trades	1,611	1,601	1,727	1,773	1,929	2,201	2,308	2,256	2,260	2,279	1,968	2,039
Psychology	1,377	1,600	1,583	1,612	1,765	1,625	1,455	1,554	1,705	1,784	1,887	1,942
Public administration and social services	3,696	3,882	4,218	4,270	4,156	3,881	3,656	3,333	3,323	3,533	3,728	4,027
Security and protective services	18,199	19,709	19,196	19,889	19,002	17,430	16,298	16,425	16,689	18,571	20,573	23,749
Criminal justice and corrections	15,262	16,584	15,990	16,644	15,915	14,448	13,487	13,589	13,603	15,136	17,040	19,942
Fire control and safety	2,243	2,447	2,523	2,638	2,480	2,395	2,364	2,346	2,619	2,917	3,012	3,366
Security and protective services, other	694	678	683	607	607	587	447	490	467	518	521	441
Social sciences and history	3,936	3,634	4,021	4,056	4,196	4,550	5,136	5,132	5,593	5,738	6,245	6,533
Social sciences	3,635	3,349	3,727	3,741	3,910	4,254	4,812	4,877	5,304	5,422	5,875	6,233
History	301	285	294	315	286	296	324	255	289	316	370	300
Theology and religious vocations	641	607	608	574	570	476	636	576	414	425	492	581
Transportation and material moving workers	1,900	1,434	1,551	1,572	977	1,101	956	1,028	1,122	1,202	1,217	1,435
Visual and performing arts	13,227	12,544	13,534	13,593	14,980	17,640	17,100	18,435	20,911	23,127	23,949	22,650
Fine arts, general	1,473	1,420	1,515	1,516	1,281	3,029	1,314	1,435	1,521	1,763	1,326	1,623
Design and music	10,173	9,805	10,579	10,459	11,591	12,026	12,780	14,410	16,388	18,503	18,836	17,482
Visual and performing arts, other	1,581	1,319	1,440	1,618	2,108	2,585	3,006	2,590	3,002	2,861	3,787	3,545
Not classified by field of study	1,526	1,146	1,591	7,606	3,017	2,494	2,798	584	365	0	0	0

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1993–94 through 2004–05 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, "Completions Survey" (IPEDS-C:93–99), and Fall 2000 through Fall 2005. (This table was prepared July 2006.)