Table 320.12.

Certificates below the associate's degree level conferred by public less-than-2-year postsecondary institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, and discipline division: 2012-13

Discipline division	Total, all certificates	Less-than-1-year certificates			1- to less-than-4-year certificates
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Total	34,344	16,005	7,946	8,059	18,339	6,024	12,315
Agriculture and natural resources	101	46	39	7	55	28	27
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences      related sciences	101	46	39	7	55	28	27
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Architecture and related services	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	59	13	3	10	46	17	29
Business, management, marketing, and support services	1,441	798	211	587	643	145	498
Accounting and related services	221	69	18	51	152	29	123
Business/commerce, general	11	11	0	11	0	0	0
Business administration, management, and operations	78	45	16	29	33	9	24
Management information systems and services	122	20	2	18	102	29	73
Business operations support and assistant services	750	484	77	407	266	40	226
Business and management, other	259	169	98	71	90	38	52
Communication, journalism, and related programs	30	27	11	16	3	2	1
Communications technologies	225	104	62	42	121	68	53
Computer and information sciences and support services	631	207	118	89	424	308	116
Construction trades	2,146	1,446	1,399	47	700	677	23
Education	62	27	2	25	35	0	35
Engineering	90	76	53	23	14	12	2
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	902	453	410	43	449	404	45
English language and literature/letters	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	695	592	139	453	103	4	99
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health professions and related programs	17,875	7,343	1,466	5,877	10,532	1,217	9,315
Dental assisting	622	321	20	301	301	25	276
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)      paramedic)	676	555	394	161	121	93	28
Clinical/medical lab science	349	349	64	285	0	0	0
Medical assisting	1,245	503	51	452	742	37	705
Pharmacy assisting	453	361	99	262	92	24	68
Other allied health assisting	684	455	205	250	229	21	208
Nursing and patient care assistant	3,031	2,921	383	2,538	110	4	106
Practical nursing	8,054	249	27	222	7,805	853	6,952
Nursing, registered nurse and other	18	0	0	0	18	0	18
Health sciences, other	2,743	1,629	223	1,406	1,114	160	954
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	1,480	1,410	1,215	195	70	43	27
Criminal justice and corrections	745	675	561	114	70	43	27
Fire control and safety	735	735	654	81	0	0	0
Homeland security and related protective services, other	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Legal professions and studies	29	12	1	11	17	2	15
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities    and humanities	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Library science	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	3,207	1,348	1,294	54	1,859	1,785	74
Military technologies and applied sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	14	14	11	3	0	0	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies    studies	6	0	0	0	6	5	1
Personal and culinary services	2,698	537	102	435	2,161	337	1,824
Philosophy and religious studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences and science technologies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Science technologies/technicians	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Precision production	1,557	677	657	20	880	841	39
Psychology	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Public administration and social services	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Social sciences and history	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Social sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
History	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Theology and religious vocations	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Transportation and materials moving	873	780	716	64	93	86	7
Visual and performing arts	223	95	37	58	128	43	85
Fine and studio arts	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Music and dance	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Visual and performing arts, other2	223	95	37	58	128	43	85

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

2 Includes design and applied arts, drama and theatre arts, film and photographic arts, and all other arts not included under "Fine and studio arts" or "Music and dance."

NOTE: Data are for public less-than-2-year postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV federal financial aid programs.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2013, Completions component. (This table was prepared January 2015.)