Table 269.

Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by discipline division: 1996-97 through 2007-08

Discipline division	1996-97	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Total	571,226	558,555	559,954	564,933	578,865	595,133	634,016	665,301	696,660	713,066	728,114	750,164
Agriculture and natural resources, total	6,463	6,673	6,632	6,666	6,649	6,494	6,210	6,283	6,404	6,168	5,838	5,738
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and      related sciences	5,021	5,206	5,220	5,292	5,200	5,125	4,892	4,959	5,137	4,958	4,638	4,554
Natural resources and conservation	1,442	1,467	1,412	1,374	1,449	1,369	1,318	1,324	1,267	1,210	1,200	1,184
Architecture and related services	316	265	405	392	417	443	440	492	583	656	517	568
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	82	97	85	113	73	94	120	105	115	124	164	169
Biological and biomedical sciences	2,133	2,113	2,213	1,448	1,443	1,534	1,496	1,456	1,709	1,827	2,060	2,200
Business, management, and marketing	92,228	87,672	86,964	86,106	87,059	86,713	89,627	92,065	96,067	96,933	99,998	104,566
Accounting	16,017	14,807	14,325	13,562	13,158	12,315	13,229	14,506	13,988	13,620	14,232	15,965
Business, general	11,385	11,311	11,514	12,283	12,621	12,936	13,054	13,387	12,050	13,297	12,725	12,473
Business administration and management	29,804	28,793	28,615	28,486	28,947	30,268	33,112	33,652	42,979	43,868	47,684	52,560
Business and management, other	15,197	14,148	14,027	13,398	13,122	13,269	13,108	14,909	13,042	13,925	14,486	14,490
Management information systems	4,936	4,261	4,526	5,394	6,016	6,417	5,600	4,214	2,812	2,179	2,007	1,237
Secretarial and related programs	14,889	14,352	13,957	12,983	13,195	11,508	11,524	11,397	11,196	10,044	8,864	7,841
Communications	2,030	2,368	2,639	2,754	2,949	2,819	2,589	2,444	2,545	2,629	2,609	2,620
Communications technologies	2,863	2,642	2,528	2,625	3,038	3,006	3,304	3,401	3,516	3,380	3,095	4,237
Computer and information sciences	14,607	18,185	22,445	28,185	34,356	40,127	46,234	41,845	36,173	31,246	27,712	28,296
Construction trades	1,928	2,172	2,137	2,337	2,682	2,639	3,009	3,560	3,512	3,850	3,895	4,309
Education	10,587	9,461	10,165	8,510	9,533	9,611	11,205	12,465	13,329	14,475	13,021	13,108
Engineering	1,921	2,118	2,012	1,722	1,795	1,691	2,177	2,737	2,441	2,162	2,136	2,286
Engineering-related technologies	41,349	40,784	42,362	43,732	42,366	40,217	39,998	36,915	33,548	30,461	29,199	29,334
English language and literature/letters	892	1,035	1,032	947	877	864	896	828	995	1,105	1,249	1,402
Family and consumer sciences	7,998	7,811	8,063	8,031	8,329	9,208	9,496	9,478	9,707	9,488	9,124	8,613
Foreign languages, literatures, and    linguistics	1,768	1,674	1,705	1,059	1,100	1,085	1,050	1,047	1,234	1,161	1,207	1,258
Health professions and related sciences	102,077	94,940	93,218	86,676	84,656	82,361	90,716	106,208	122,520	134,931	145,436	155,816
Dental assisting	4,866	4,904	6,628	5,569	5,193	5,223	5,498	5,652	5,813	6,085	6,313	6,642
Emergency medical technician (EMT
paramedic)	1,048	975	918	1,152	1,134	1,203	1,410	1,617	1,825	1,980	2,008	2,140
Medical lab technician	2,641	2,370	2,033	1,644	1,502	1,384	1,496	1,678	1,932	2,030	2,160	2,152
Medical assisting	5,019	5,102	5,358	5,414	5,863	4,748	5,859	8,499	10,411	12,367	12,071	11,261
Nursing assisting	13	23	12	7	2	0	8	4	38	101	158	329
Practical nursing	429	499	447	575	619	814	916	1,049	1,388	1,481	1,509	1,417
Nursing, R.N. and other	52,983	47,329	43,029	40,767	40,278	40,800	45,117	51,552	58,007	62,095	66,516	73,277
Health sciences, other	35,078	33,738	34,793	31,548	30,065	28,189	30,412	36,157	43,106	48,792	54,701	58,598
Legal professions and studies	11,242	9,890	9,133	8,842	8,119	7,815	8,412	9,466	9,885	10,509	10,391	9,465
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,    and humanities	181,341	186,248	181,977	187,454	196,843	207,163	217,361	227,650	240,131	244,689	250,030	254,012
Library science	126	96	86	98	103	96	87	114	108	136	84	117
Mathematics	792	844	823	675	695	685	732	801	807	753	827	855
Mechanics and repairers	12,126	10,576	10,781	11,678	12,689	12,063	12,028	12,553	13,619	14,454	15,432	15,297
Military technologies	556	22	42	65	120	62	85	293	355	610	781	851
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	9,182	9,402	8,661	11,784	10,439	13,205	14,067	14,794	13,888	14,473	15,838	16,255
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness    studies	885	840	819	819	790	764	805	923	966	1,128	1,251	1,344
Personal and culinary services	8,172	7,648	8,933	9,203	9,786	9,325	12,607	14,239	16,311	17,162	16,103	16,592
Philosophy and religion	91	101	297	209	299	359	379	404	422	367	375	458
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,526	2,286	2,399	2,460	2,337	2,308	2,190	2,676	2,814	2,902	3,404	3,388
Physical sciences	1,728	1,584	1,679	1,350	1,207	1,346	1,141	1,588	1,626	1,733	2,015	1,973
Science technologies	798	702	720	1,110	1,130	962	1,049	1,088	1,188	1,169	1,389	1,415
Precision production trades	1,773	1,929	2,201	2,308	2,256	2,260	2,287	1,968	2,039	1,977	1,973	1,968
Psychology	1,612	1,765	1,625	1,455	1,554	1,705	1,785	1,887	1,942	1,944	2,213	2,412
Public administration and social services	4,270	4,156	3,881	3,656	3,333	3,323	3,534	3,728	4,027	4,415	4,338	4,192
Security and protective services	19,889	19,002	17,430	16,298	16,425	16,689	18,614	20,573	23,749	26,425	28,208	29,590
Criminal justice and corrections	16,644	15,915	14,448	13,487	13,589	13,603	15,155	17,040	19,942	22,351	23,917	25,588
Fire control and safety	2,638	2,480	2,395	2,364	2,346	2,619	2,941	3,012	3,366	3,554	3,811	3,937
Security and protective services, other	607	607	587	447	490	467	518	521	441	520	480	65
Social sciences and history	4,056	4,196	4,550	5,136	5,132	5,593	5,720	6,245	6,533	6,730	7,080	7,812
Social sciences	3,741	3,910	4,254	4,812	4,877	5,304	5,404	5,875	6,233	6,308	6,673	7,358
History	315	286	296	324	255	289	316	370	300	422	407	454
Theology and religious vocations	574	570	476	636	576	414	425	492	581	570	608	582
Transportation and material moving workers	1,572	977	1,101	956	1,028	1,122	1,211	1,217	1,435	1,472	1,674	1,550
Visual and performing arts	13,593	14,980	17,640	17,100	18,435	20,911	23,120	23,949	22,650	21,754	20,244	18,890
Fine arts, general	1,516	1,281	3,029	1,314	1,435	1,521	1,763	1,326	1,623	1,651	1,758	1,711
Design and music	10,459	11,591	12,026	12,780	14,410	16,388	18,342	18,836	17,482	16,387	15,467	14,296
Visual and performing arts, other	1,618	2,108	2,585	3,006	2,590	3,002	3,015	3,787	3,545	3,716	3,019	2,883
Not classified by field of study	7,606	3,017	2,494	2,798	584	365	0	0	0	0	0	14

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. The new Classification of Instructional Programs was initiated in 2002-03. The figures for earlier years have been reclassified when necessary to make them conform to the new taxonomy. To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the IPEDS "Completions Survey": "Agriculture and natural resources" includes Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences and Natural resources and conservation; "Business" includes Business, management, marketing, and related support services and Personal and culinary services; and "Engineering technologies" includes Engineering technologies/technicians, Construction trades, and Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1996-97 through 2007-08 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, "Completions Survey" (IPEDS-C:97-99), and Fall 2000 through Fall 2008. (This table was prepared July 2009.)