Table 283.

Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2005–06

Field of study	Total							Males							Females
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native	Non- resident 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	713,066	485,297	89,784	80,854	35,201	8,552	13,378	270,095	190,139	27,619	30,040	14,224	2,774	5,299	442,971	295,158	62,165	50,814	20,977	5,778	8,079
Agriculture and natural resources	6,168	5,733	59	143	70	98	65	3,792	3,575	38	93	23	47	16	2,376	2,158	21	50	47	51	49
Architecture and related services	656	416	49	122	47	2	20	247	141	30	55	16	0	5	409	275	19	67	31	2	15
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	124	22	21	19	3	54	5	37	7	7	7	1	14	1	87	15	14	12	2	40	4
Biological and biomedical sciences	1,827	1,031	162	280	228	69	57	626	361	67	92	75	16	15	1,201	670	95	188	153	53	42
Business	114,095	73,280	17,764	12,288	6,425	1,366	2,972	40,136	27,013	5,020	4,248	2,365	398	1,092	73,959	46,267	12,744	8,040	4,060	968	1,880
Communications, journalism, and related programs	2,629	1,905	253	279	103	27	62	1,316	988	103	144	40	16	25	1,313	917	150	135	63	11	37
Communications technologies	3,380	2,449	395	333	128	27	48	2,036	1,437	253	235	79	12	20	1,344	1,012	142	98	49	15	28
Computer and information sciences	31,246	20,474	5,011	3,279	1,576	358	548	22,464	15,499	2,930	2,371	1,095	197	372	8,782	4,975	2,081	908	481	161	176
Construction trades	3,850	3,262	239	202	61	74	12	3,633	3,096	213	187	58	69	10	217	166	26	15	3	5	2
Education	14,475	8,994	2,532	2,103	222	513	111	2,232	1,505	332	262	34	78	21	12,243	7,489	2,200	1,841	188	435	90
Engineering	2,162	1,378	224	312	140	23	85	1,861	1,197	193	270	108	20	73	301	181	31	42	32	3	12
Engineering technologies1	30,461	22,101	3,336	3,222	1,140	348	314	25,982	19,088	2,609	2,780	970	279	256	4,479	3,013	727	442	170	69	58
English language and literature/letters	1,105	694	94	200	63	13	41	370	233	32	67	24	5	9	735	461	62	133	39	8	32
Family and consumer sciences	9,488	5,172	2,032	1,668	346	140	130	418	246	72	56	25	6	13	9,070	4,926	1,960	1,612	321	134	117
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,161	771	64	240	43	17	26	216	125	6	58	17	2	8	945	646	58	182	26	15	18
Health professions and related clinical sciences	134,931	98,252	17,615	10,446	5,844	1,436	1,338	19,668	13,551	2,252	1,944	1,426	178	317	115,263	84,701	15,363	8,502	4,418	1,258	1,021
Legal professions and studies	10,509	6,960	1,768	1,404	209	115	53	1,093	642	210	177	38	19	7	9,416	6,318	1,558	1,227	171	96	46
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	244,689	164,099	26,878	31,962	13,256	2,661	5,833	89,955	61,989	8,638	10,943	5,208	833	2,344	154,734	102,110	18,240	21,019	8,048	1,828	3,489
Library science	136	114	3	11	7	0	1	15	10	1	2	2	0	0	121	104	2	9	5	0	1
Mathematics and statistics	753	400	36	163	90	10	54	483	250	22	116	58	6	31	270	150	14	47	32	4	23
Mechanics and repair technologies	14,454	11,152	1,028	1,347	673	156	98	13,713	10,663	936	1,262	616	146	90	741	489	92	85	57	10	8
Military technologies	610	399	113	54	41	3	0	510	335	92	46	34	3	0	100	64	21	8	7	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	14,473	8,889	1,646	1,944	1,578	98	318	6,224	3,945	693	777	647	38	124	8,249	4,944	953	1,167	931	60	194
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	1,128	816	141	89	28	20	34	656	473	83	47	19	16	18	472	343	58	42	9	4	16
Philosophy and religious studies	367	332	4	20	4	2	5	97	70	3	17	2	2	3	270	262	1	3	2	0	2
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,902	1,907	259	282	273	33	148	1,702	1,146	121	171	161	17	86	1,200	761	138	111	112	16	62
Precision production	1,977	1,710	73	100	65	25	4	1,800	1,597	55	84	37	23	4	177	113	18	16	28	2	0
Psychology	1,944	1,205	207	384	83	43	22	446	281	44	81	19	13	8	1,498	924	163	303	64	30	14
Public administration and social service professions	4,415	2,312	1,235	652	98	75	43	642	313	191	97	17	16	8	3,773	1,999	1,044	555	81	59	35
Security and protective services	26,425	18,379	3,673	3,404	547	359	63	14,578	11,308	1,113	1,655	327	145	30	11,847	7,071	2,560	1,749	220	214	33
Social sciences and history	6,730	3,893	735	1,277	509	172	144	2,338	1,398	218	404	210	57	51	4,392	2,495	517	873	299	115	93
Social sciences	6,308	3,592	716	1,208	491	163	138	2,095	1,232	210	351	199	56	47	4,213	2,360	506	857	292	107	91
History	422	301	19	69	18	9	6	243	166	8	53	11	1	4	179	135	11	16	7	8	2
Theology and religious vocations	570	376	148	25	8	2	11	248	170	54	13	5	2	4	322	206	94	12	3	0	7
Transportation and materials moving	1,472	1,149	87	137	48	17	34	1,268	1,002	76	112	40	16	22	204	147	11	25	8	1	12
Visual and performing arts	21,754	15,271	1,900	2,463	1,245	196	679	9,293	6,485	912	1,167	428	85	216	12,461	8,786	988	1,296	817	111	463

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately. NOTE: 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, 2005–06 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2006. (This table was prepared June 2007.)