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Digest of Education Statistics: 2008
Digest of Education Statistics: 2008

NCES 2009-020
March 2009


Table 270. Associate's degrees and other subbaccalaureate awards conferred by degree-granting institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, and discipline division: 2006–07
Discipline division Less-than-1-year awards 1- to less-than-4-year awards Associate's degrees
Total Males Females Total Males Females Total Males Females
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10
Total 248,941 112,007 136,934 189,005 71,869 117,136 728,114 275,187 452,927
Agriculture and natural resources, total 3,376 2,495 881 1,626 1,030 596 5,838 3,626 2,212
Agriculture, agriculture operations and related sciences 2,315 1,554 761 1,554 975 579 4,638 2,710 1,928
Natural resources and conservation 1,061 941 120 72 55 17 1,200 916 284
Architecture and related services 164 95 69 178 67 111 517 231 286
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies 379 101 278 121 36 85 164 53 111
                   
Biological and biomedical sciences 111 32 79 29 11 18 2,060 676 1,384
Business, management, and marketing 32,981 10,608 22,373 15,589 3,836 11,753 99,998 32,996 67,002
Accounting 4,173 809 3,364 3,279 652 2,627 14,232 3,203 11,029
Business, general 1,159 705 454 956 441 515 12,725 5,057 7,668
Business administration and management 6,768 2,600 4,168 3,302 1,239 2,063 47,684 18,105 29,579
Business and management, other 11,845 4,352 7,493 2,196 725 1,471 14,486 4,738 9,748
Management information systems 408 287 121 605 428 177 2,007 1,237 770
Secretarial and related programs 8,628 1,855 6,773 5,251 351 4,900 8,864 656 8,208
                   
Communications 470 252 218 446 273 173 2,609 1,311 1,298
Communications technologies 753 475 278 768 511 257 3,095 1,874 1,221
Computer and information sciences 8,403 5,378 3,025 4,856 3,070 1,786 27,712 20,459 7,253
Construction trades 8,946 8,455 491 7,266 6,975 291 3,895 3,696 199
                   
Education 2,949 307 2,642 1,830 152 1,678 13,021 1,773 11,248
Engineering 192 135 57 58 47 11 2,136 1,835 301
Engineering-related technologies 7,594 6,368 1,226 6,475 5,594 881 29,199 25,155 4,044
English language and literature/letters 995 365 630 266 101 165 1,249 378 871
                   
Family and consumer sciences 10,739 1,686 9,053 3,521 670 2,851 9,124 333 8,791
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics 799 220 579 463 47 416 1,207 195 1,012
                   
Health professions and related sciences 92,276 17,911 74,365 86,344 11,071 75,273 145,436 21,214 124,222
Dental assisting 2,784 156 2,628 5,663 268 5,395 6,313 277 6,036
Emergency medical technician–ambulance and paramedic 12,352 8,484 3,868 3,277 2,497 780 2,008 1,358 650
Medical lab technician 264 22 242 397 220 177 2,160 518 1,642
Medical assisting 10,836 654 10,182 13,748 692 13,056 12,071 667 11,404
Nursing assisting 24,438 2,477 21,961 244 25 219 158 10 148
Practical nursing 4,327 431 3,896 29,529 2,917 26,612 1,509 129 1,380
Nursing, R.N. and other 2,047 189 1,858 4,430 481 3,949 66,516 8,222 58,294
Health sciences, other 35,228 5,498 29,730 29,056 3,971 25,085 54,701 10,033 44,668
                   
Legal professions and studies 1,558 208 1,350 2,266 297 1,969 10,391 1,046 9,345
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities 318 82 236 4,271 1,771 2,500 250,030 93,711 156,319
Library science 163 10 153 52 9 43 84 8 76
                   
Mathematics 40 23 17 7 4 3 827 548 279
Mechanics and repairers 17,103 15,900 1,203 21,177 20,349 828 15,432 14,720 712
Military technologies 74 65 9 5 5 0 781 641 140
Multi/interdisciplinary studies 525 231 294 873 280 593 15,838 6,578 9,260
                   
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies 347 174 173 182 72 110 1,251 749 502
Personal and culinary services 6,922 1,662 5,260 9,564 1,637 7,927 16,103 8,417 7,686
Philosophy and religion 11 8 3 74 49 25 375 115 260
Physical sciences and science technologies 291 146 145 303 136 167 3,404 1,948 1,456
Physical sciences 27 14 13 12 5 7 2,015 1,149 866
Science technologies 264 132 132 291 131 160 1,389 799 590
Precision production trades 6,019 5,666 353 4,985 4,752 233 1,973 1,849 124
Psychology 138 16 122 25 1 24 2,213 517 1,696
Public administration and social services 845 161 684 549 108 441 4,338 596 3,742
                   
Security and protective services 20,893 15,689 5,204 5,265 3,927 1,338 28,208 15,481 12,727
Criminal justice and corrections 15,547 10,769 4,778 3,812 2,578 1,234 23,917 11,671 12,246
Fire control and safety 5,185 4,822 363 1,377 1,321 56 3,811 3,531 280
Security and protective services, other 161 98 63 129 81 48 480 279 201
Social sciences and history 352 193 159 200 103 97 7,080 2,494 4,586
Social sciences 344 192 152 191 98 93 6,673 2,252 4,421
History 8 1 7 9 5 4 407 242 165
                   
Theology and religious vocations 139 53 86 445 230 215 608 313 295
Transportation and material moving workers 16,659 14,735 1,924 2,102 2,022 80 1,674 1,442 232
                   
Visual and performing arts 5,417 2,102 3,315 6,824 2,626 4,198 20,244 8,209 12,035
Fine arts, general 3,056 1,137 1,919 4,105 1,523 2,582 1,758 574 1,184
Design and music 1,863 709 1,154 2,310 861 1,449 15,467 6,097 9,370
Visual and performing arts, other 498 256 242 409 242 167 3,019 1,538 1,481
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2007. (This table was prepared September 2008.)