Table 270.

Associate's degrees and other subbaccalaureate awards conferred by degree-granting institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, and discipline division: 2007-08

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	260,629	119,385	141,244	190,086	72,450	117,636	750,164	282,521	467,643
Agriculture and natural resources, total	3,433	2,538	895	1,636	1,022	614	5,738	3,598	2,140
Agriculture, agriculture operations and      related sciences	2,425	1,641	784	1,575	982	593	4,554	2,683	1,871
Natural resources and conservation	1,008	897	111	61	40	21	1,184	915	269
Architecture and related services	224	145	79	201	63	138	568	260	308
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	406	121	285	99	34	65	169	59	110
Biological and biomedical sciences	66	32	34	41	14	27	2,200	667	1,533
Business, management, and marketing	33,831	10,859	22,972	15,145	3,832	11,313	104,566	34,774	69,792
Accounting	4,595	896	3,699	3,301	628	2,673	15,965	3,452	12,513
Business, general	997	592	405	790	387	403	12,473	4,957	7,516
Business administration and management	7,775	3,019	4,756	3,241	1,211	2,030	52,560	20,318	32,242
Business and management, other	11,812	4,197	7,615	2,604	1,097	1,507	14,490	4,664	9,826
Management information systems	413	302	111	398	239	159	1,237	773	464
Secretarial and related programs	8,239	1,853	6,386	4,811	270	4,541	7,841	610	7,231
Communications	669	238	431	472	291	181	2,620	1,271	1,349
Communications technologies	723	416	307	762	526	236	4,237	2,968	1,269
Computer and information sciences	9,322	6,130	3,192	4,530	2,940	1,590	28,296	21,191	7,105
Construction trades	9,425	8,973	452	8,018	7,725	293	4,309	4,106	203
Education	3,343	455	2,888	1,809	169	1,640	13,108	1,914	11,194
Engineering	186	156	30	148	137	11	2,286	1,986	300
Engineering-related technologies	9,150	7,592	1,558	6,432	5,593	839	29,334	25,261	4,073
English language and literature/letters	875	318	557	294	130	164	1,402	484	918
Family and consumer sciences	11,200	1,771	9,429	3,350	648	2,702	8,613	344	8,269
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	837	208	629	417	42	375	1,258	216	1,042
Health professions and related sciences	96,669	19,235	77,434	88,865	11,996	76,869	155,816	22,934	132,882
Dental assisting	3,377	222	3,155	5,481	233	5,248	6,642	276	6,366
Emergency medical technician (EMT      paramedic)	12,384	8,641	3,743	3,447	2,714	733	2,140	1,468	672
Medical lab technician	213	24	189	551	318	233	2,152	525	1,627
Medical assisting	12,247	835	11,412	14,255	762	13,493	11,261	579	10,682
Nursing assisting	24,469	2,540	21,929	772	41	731	329	44	285
Practical nursing	4,824	525	4,299	30,890	3,125	27,765	1,417	161	1,256
Nursing, R.N. and other	1,730	164	1,566	4,224	576	3,648	73,277	9,233	64,044
Health sciences, other	37,425	6,284	31,141	29,245	4,227	25,018	58,598	10,648	47,950
Legal professions and studies	1,382	184	1,198	2,104	290	1,814	9,465	1,010	8,455
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,    and humanities	328	76	252	4,631	1,643	2,988	254,012	95,438	158,574
Library science	181	19	162	63	6	57	117	26	91
Mathematics	28	26	2	3	3	0	855	575	280
Mechanics and repairers	17,776	16,732	1,044	20,578	19,724	854	15,297	14,534	763
Military technologies	3	3	0	0	0	0	851	694	157
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	692	343	349	957	346	611	16,255	6,549	9,706
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness    studies	357	189	168	279	116	163	1,344	809	535
Personal and culinary services	7,216	1,686	5,530	9,987	1,906	8,081	16,592	8,471	8,121
Philosophy and religion	11	4	7	91	43	48	458	137	321
Physical sciences and science technologies	306	162	144	384	238	146	3,388	1,954	1,434
Physical sciences	55	28	27	17	3	14	1,973	1,140	833
Science technologies	251	134	117	367	235	132	1,415	814	601
Precision production trades	7,312	6,894	418	5,513	5,281	232	1,968	1,838	130
Psychology	75	24	51	46	10	36	2,412	554	1,858
Public administration and social services	930	212	718	672	130	542	4,192	569	3,623
Security and protective services	20,163	15,425	4,738	5,191	3,848	1,343	29,590	16,051	13,539
Criminal justice and corrections	14,884	10,586	4,298	4,189	2,919	1,270	25,588	12,384	13,204
Fire control and safety	5,122	4,746	376	918	867	51	3,937	3,632	305
Security and protective services, other	157	93	64	84	62	22	65	35	30
Social sciences and history	442	219	223	187	110	77	7,812	2,759	5,053
Social sciences	411	212	199	183	106	77	7,358	2,499	4,859
History	31	7	24	4	4	0	454	260	194
Theology and religious vocations	149	54	95	360	183	177	582	282	300
Transportation and material moving workers	17,394	15,851	1,543	883	807	76	1,550	1,308	242
Visual and performing arts	5,525	2,095	3,430	5,938	2,604	3,334	18,890	6,927	11,963
Fine arts, general	2,664	967	1,697	2,414	903	1,511	1,711	567	1,144
Design and music	2,287	860	1,427	2,236	965	1,271	14,296	4,971	9,325
Visual and performing arts, other	574	268	306	1,288	736	552	2,883	1,389	1,494
Not classified by field of study	0	0	0	0	0	0	14	3	11

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2007-08 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2008. (This table was prepared July 2009.)