Table 321.12.

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

Discipline division	Total, all certificates below the associate's degree	Less-than-1-year certificates			1- to less-than-4-year certificates			Associate's degrees
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Total	458,052	267,859	133,001	134,858	190,193	81,889	108,304	638,814	249,752	389,062
Agriculture and natural resources	5,099	3,100	2,154	946	1,999	1,334	665	5,276	3,339	1,937
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences      related sciences	4,200	2,289	1,448	841	1,911	1,267	644	4,027	2,437	1,590
Natural resources and conservation	899	811	706	105	88	67	21	1,249	902	347
Architecture and related services	261	158	100	58	103	68	35	374	238	136
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	66	53	8	45	13	3	10	211	85	126
Biological and biomedical sciences	104	49	23	26	55	19	36	3,774	1,206	2,568
Business, management, marketing, and support services	49,639	31,548	9,717	21,831	18,091	4,688	13,403	69,076	26,065	43,011
Accounting and related services	10,793	6,200	1,611	4,589	4,593	1,007	3,586	10,954	3,114	7,840
Business/commerce, general	2,991	1,814	670	1,144	1,177	575	602	11,543	5,145	6,398
Business administration, management, and operations	9,474	6,039	2,073	3,966	3,435	1,242	2,193	29,469	13,011	16,458
Management information systems and services	358	194	148	46	164	110	54	717	506	211
Business operations support and assistant services	15,428	9,695	2,504	7,191	5,733	659	5,074	5,921	387	5,534
Business and management, other	10,595	7,606	2,711	4,895	2,989	1,095	1,894	10,472	3,902	6,570
Communication, journalism, and related programs	751	513	275	238	238	127	111	3,522	1,653	1,869
Communications technologies	2,858	1,592	826	766	1,266	785	481	3,028	1,849	1,179
Computer and information sciences and support services	18,581	12,915	9,122	3,793	5,666	4,189	1,477	18,107	14,222	3,885
Construction trades	15,060	7,891	7,523	368	7,169	6,815	354	3,485	3,309	176
Education	4,841	2,667	197	2,470	2,174	189	1,985	13,636	1,753	11,883
Engineering	420	308	258	50	112	104	8	3,405	2,948	457
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	18,672	11,829	10,197	1,632	6,843	6,021	822	18,386	15,887	2,499
English language and literature/letters	425	379	141	238	46	14	32	1,599	521	1,078
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	15,085	12,026	1,178	10,848	3,059	288	2,771	7,783	274	7,509
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,247	751	156	595	496	59	437	1,634	335	1,299
Health professions and related programs	142,840	86,772	18,425	68,347	56,068	8,331	47,737	109,170	18,466	90,704
Dental assisting	4,676	1,128	100	1,028	3,548	148	3,400	4,419	186	4,233
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)      paramedic)	15,698	12,317	7,862	4,455	3,381	2,537	844	2,589	1,722	867
Clinical/medical lab science	5,906	5,274	612	4,662	632	55	577	2,104	452	1,652
Medical assisting	7,446	2,082	153	1,929	5,364	238	5,126	11,405	1,806	9,599
Pharmacy assisting	3,629	1,810	446	1,364	1,819	315	1,504	0	0	0
Other allied health assisting	5,075	4,388	1,728	2,660	687	90	597	0	0	0
Nursing and patient care assistant	33,705	33,418	4,310	29,108	287	21	266	24	6	18
Practical nursing	30,868	5,119	545	4,574	25,749	2,773	22,976	1,222	136	1,086
Nursing, registered nurse and other	2,656	1,585	163	1,422	1,071	179	892	56,946	8,162	48,784
Health sciences, other	33,181	19,651	2,506	17,145	13,530	1,975	11,555	30,461	5,996	24,465
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	25,641	20,410	15,197	5,213	5,231	3,678	1,553	27,276	16,434	10,842
Criminal justice and corrections	19,316	15,098	10,307	4,791	4,218	2,741	1,477	23,291	12,800	10,491
Fire control and safety	6,025	5,054	4,726	328	971	908	63	3,727	3,438	289
Homeland security and related protective services, other	300	258	164	94	42	29	13	258	196	62
Legal professions and studies	3,615	1,257	214	1,043	2,358	441	1,917	5,440	828	4,612
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities    and humanities	34,008	3,268	1,187	2,081	30,740	12,159	18,581	252,299	95,952	156,347
Library science	280	212	27	185	68	4	64	176	28	148
Mathematics and statistics	25	19	11	8	6	5	1	1,754	1,211	543
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	44,955	26,289	24,620	1,669	18,666	17,783	883	11,267	10,604	663
Military technologies and applied sciences	6	2	2	0	4	4	0	874	672	202
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	1,555	644	345	299	911	482	429	22,461	9,514	12,947
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies    studies	1,702	1,473	568	905	229	111	118	2,236	1,251	985
Personal and culinary services	19,331	8,476	2,138	6,338	10,855	2,129	8,726	6,132	2,231	3,901
Philosophy and religious studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	132	90	42
Physical sciences and science technologies	1,259	641	461	180	618	459	159	5,218	3,224	1,994
Physical sciences	41	31	17	14	10	8	2	3,400	1,996	1,404
Science technologies/technicians	1,218	610	444	166	608	451	157	1,818	1,228	590
Precision production	23,208	14,458	13,656	802	8,750	8,263	487	2,578	2,389	189
Psychology	69	24	8	16	45	11	34	5,300	1,331	3,969
Public administration and social services	1,571	907	172	735	664	133	531	5,460	833	4,627
Social sciences and history	500	348	209	139	152	86	66	15,290	5,600	9,690
Social sciences	498	346	209	137	152	86	66	14,472	5,091	9,381
History	2	2	0	2	0	0	0	818	509	309
Theology and religious vocations	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	3	2	1
Transportation and materials moving	14,586	14,096	12,623	1,473	490	449	41	1,036	833	203
Visual and performing arts	9,792	2,784	1,263	1,521	7,008	2,658	4,350	11,416	4,575	6,841
Fine and studio arts	4,913	91	35	56	4,822	1,749	3,073	2,198	701	1,497
Music and dance	311	169	103	66	142	98	44	1,077	619	458
Visual and performing arts, other2	4,568	2,524	1,125	1,399	2,044	811	1,233	8,141	3,255	4,886

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 degree-granting postsecondary institutions, which are institutions that grant associate's or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. This table includes only public 2-year institutions.

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.)