Table 325.

Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2009-10 and 2010-11

Field of study	2009-10							2010-11
	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent alien	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/Pacific Islander			American Indian/Alaska Native	Two or more races	Non- resi- dent alien
												Total	Asian	Pacific Islander
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
All fields, total	849,452	552,863	113,905	112,211	44,021	10,337	16,115	942,327	604,110	128,703	125,616	45,876	41,474	4,402	10,173	11,275	16,574
Agriculture and natural resources	5,894	5,350	68	252	43	155	26	6,425	5,942	56	209	54	42	12	93	39	32
Architecture and related services	552	318	25	138	52	2	17	569	310	24	161	53	51	2	4	2	15
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	199	41	38	31	5	79	5	209	45	24	38	4	3	1	90	3	5
Biological and biomedical sciences	2,664	1,407	246	499	352	55	105	3,245	1,656	281	653	480	436	44	50	36	89
Business	133,371	81,899	22,195	15,904	7,677	1,692	4,004	139,986	84,192	23,901	16,601	7,701	6,979	722	1,660	1,789	4,142
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,839	1,887	278	412	138	26	98	3,051	1,955	286	506	153	131	22	20	30	101
Communications technologies	4,419	3,171	525	397	177	47	102	4,209	2,956	535	414	134	126	8	39	67	64
Computer and information sciences	32,466	21,309	5,253	3,443	1,618	342	501	37,677	25,050	5,911	3,730	1,747	1,613	134	349	335	555
Construction trades	4,617	3,749	412	285	86	72	13	5,402	4,282	518	385	83	76	7	78	44	12
Education	17,048	11,346	2,392	2,297	328	496	189	20,459	13,278	2,948	2,952	416	329	87	477	195	193
Engineering	2,508	1,637	172	305	222	20	152	2,825	1,794	187	367	229	207	22	43	25	180
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	31,850	22,306	3,814	3,809	1,309	318	294	35,521	25,100	4,296	3,958	1,187	1,087	100	393	310	277
English language and literature/letters	1,658	908	165	402	122	23	38	2,019	1,080	244	476	161	150	11	15	17	26
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	9,573	5,179	2,127	1,652	375	123	117	8,532	4,430	1,893	1,602	336	305	31	76	65	130
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,683	1,141	85	357	52	7	41	1,876	1,193	84	421	62	48	14	16	29	71
Health professions and related programs	177,686	124,009	24,138	16,655	9,266	1,797	1,821	201,831	139,071	28,024	19,513	9,524	8,655	869	1,804	2,208	1,687
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	37,260	23,559	6,137	6,213	763	437	151	44,923	27,248	7,667	7,691	1,039	827	212	466	670	142
Legal professions and studies	10,003	6,340	1,804	1,426	255	119	59	11,620	7,440	1,967	1,534	322	269	53	112	176	69
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	284,775	181,450	34,785	44,147	14,753	3,406	6,234	306,670	192,864	37,996	47,746	14,728	13,287	1,441	3,023	3,996	6,317
Library science	112	89	5	9	7	2	0	160	128	5	20	3	3	0	1	3	0
Mathematics and statistics	1,051	511	53	267	151	8	61	1,644	778	103	385	256	254	2	24	23	75
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	16,305	11,785	1,524	1,977	628	279	112	19,969	14,078	2,077	2,493	685	601	84	304	222	110
Military technologies and applied sciences	668	493	68	70	27	10	0	856	582	96	110	47	40	7	8	13	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	17,671	10,163	1,271	3,226	2,412	120	479	23,729	13,787	2,111	4,038	2,775	2,625	150	208	242	568
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	2,016	1,321	292	268	77	26	32	2,366	1,457	350	372	88	64	24	38	21	40
Philosophy and religious studies	256	151	48	37	9	5	6	283	152	47	53	25	24	1	4	1	1
Physical sciences and science technologies	4,140	2,603	363	526	394	44	210	5,078	2,866	618	644	524	493	31	65	66	295
Precision production	2,787	2,388	116	145	71	52	15	3,254	2,741	153	216	79	68	11	39	20	6
Psychology	6,582	4,138	865	1,116	269	113	81	3,866	2,125	334	1,003	204	185	19	87	57	56
Public administration and social services	4,526	2,329	1,341	641	100	89	26	7,472	3,889	2,181	1,040	132	100	32	131	67	32
Social sciences and history	10,649	5,426	1,277	2,599	974	172	201	12,767	6,316	1,464	3,056	1,261	1,110	151	241	207	222
Social sciences	10,108	5,047	1,250	2,494	952	167	198	12,067	5,856	1,433	2,888	1,244	1,096	148	236	195	215
History	541	379	27	105	22	5	3	700	460	31	168	17	14	3	5	12	7
Theology and religious vocations	613	424	130	34	7	7	11	758	520	167	36	13	10	3	7	1	14
Transportation and materials moving	1,444	1,091	84	151	65	20	33	1,697	1,137	126	253	94	90	4	14	29	44
Visual and performing arts	19,567	12,945	1,809	2,521	1,237	174	881	21,379	13,668	2,029	2,940	1,277	1,186	91	194	267	1,004
Other and not classified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians," which are listed separately.

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. 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, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010 and Fall 2011, Completions component. (This table was prepared June 2012.)