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Table 250. Associate degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by field of study: 1990-91 to 2001-02

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                   Field of study                   |1990-91 |1991-92 |1992-93 |1993-94 |1994-95 |1995-96 |1996-97 |1997-98 |1998-99 |1999-2000| 2000-01 | 2001-02
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                         1                          |   2    |   3    |   4    |   5    |   6    |   7    |   8    |   9    |   10   |   11    |   12    |   13
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     Total .........................................| 481,720| 504,231| 514,756| 530,632| 539,691| 555,216| 571,226| 558,555| 559,954|  564,933|  578,865|  595,133
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Agriculture and natural resources, total ...........|   4,910|   5,251|   5,398|   5,636|   5,730|   6,182|   6,463|   6,673|   6,633|    6,667|    6,649|    6,494
   Agricultural business and production ............|   2,905|   3,046|   3,222|   3,434|   3,564|   3,846|   4,176|   4,247|   4,327|    4,350|    4,221|    4,221
   Agricultural sciences ...........................|     879|     951|     837|     871|     829|     877|     845|     959|     894|      943|      979|      904
   Conservation and renewable natural resources ....|   1,126|   1,254|   1,339|   1,331|   1,337|   1,459|   1,442|   1,467|   1,412|    1,374|    1,449|    1,369
Architecture and related programs ..................|   2,031|     443|     372|     353|     277|     256|     316|     265|     405|      392|      417|      443
Area, ethnic, and cultural studies .................|      19|      29|      33|      75|      68|     111|      84|     104|     308|      259|      307|      319
Biological/life sciences ...........................|   1,119|   1,361|   1,435|   1,771|   1,879|   2,037|   2,116|   2,113|   2,211|    1,434|    1,444|    1,517
Business management and administrative services ....|  89,537|  93,762|  91,719|  92,284|  90,113|  93,487|  95,532|  91,399|  91,190|   92,274|   93,072|   93,073
   Accounting ......................................|  14,577|  15,687|  15,115|  15,307|  14,970|  15,926|  16,017|  14,807|  14,325|   13,562|   13,158|   12,315
   Business, general ...............................|  11,618|  11,823|  11,190|  11,452|  11,622|  11,397|  11,385|  11,311|  11,514|   12,283|   12,621|   12,936
   Business administration and management ..........|  26,625|  31,185|  29,556|  29,691|  28,968|  28,901|  29,804|  28,793|  28,615|   28,486|   28,947|   30,268
   Business and management, other ..................|  11,663|  11,089|  12,285|  11,114|  10,233|   9,950|  12,166|   8,632|   8,575|    7,841|    7,805|    7,546
   Business data processing ........................|   8,182|   6,394|   6,405|   6,883|   6,962|   7,381|   8,553|   8,576|  10,003|   13,129|   14,033|   15,579
   Secretarial and related programs ................|  16,872|  17,584|  17,168|  17,837|  17,358|  19,932|  17,607|  19,280|  18,158|   16,973|   16,508|   14,429
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Communications .....................................|   1,847|   1,886|   1,904|   2,052|   3,160|   2,187|   2,030|   2,368|   2,639|    2,754|    2,949|    2,819
Communications technologies ........................|   2,032|   1,794|   1,828|   2,469|   1,984|   1,757|   1,743|   1,602|   1,541|    1,709|    1,983|    2,021
Computer and information sciences ..................|   7,677|   9,290|   9,196|   9,301|   9,152|   9,658|  10,990|  13,870|  16,968|   20,450|   26,339|   30,965
Construction trades ................................|   1,793|   1,560|   1,653|   1,695|   1,728|   2,141|   1,928|   2,172|   2,137|    2,337|    2,682|    2,639
Consumer and personal services .....................|   2,494|   4,420|   4,692|   5,175|   5,626|   7,721|   8,211|   7,744|   9,206|    9,570|   10,429|   10,115
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Education ..........................................|   7,842|  10,267|   9,315|   9,271|   9,658|   9,750|  10,526|   9,278|   9,971|    8,226|    9,219|    9,267
Engineering ........................................|   2,451|   2,685|   2,478|   2,445|   2,232|   2,197|   1,952|   2,149|   2,033|    1,752|    1,825|    1,724
Engineering-related technologies ...................|  37,890|  35,861|  36,321|  35,618|  34,732|  33,002|  33,810|  32,748|  34,047|   35,395|   34,467|   32,895
English language and literature/letters ............|     426|   1,019|   1,320|   1,289|   1,548|   1,310|   1,455|   1,609|   1,621|      947|      877|      864
Foreign languages and literatures ..................|     327|     433|     511|     492|     616|     607|     689|     543|     549|      501|      529|      517
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Health professions and related sciences ............|  70,833|  79,453|  86,237|  94,601|  98,474| 101,872|  98,921|  92,031|  90,557|   84,081|   82,184|   79,888
   Dental assisting ................................|   3,810|   4,013|   4,165|   4,259|   4,312|   4,564|   4,866|   4,904|   6,628|    5,566|    4,709|    5,237
   Emergency medical technician-ambulance and       |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |         |         |
      paramedic ....................................|     371|     378|     442|     510|     771|     889|   1,048|     975|     918|    1,152|    1,134|    1,203
   Medical lab technician ..........................|   1,731|   1,874|   2,172|   2,570|   2,769|   2,982|   2,641|   2,370|   2,033|    1,644|    1,502|    1,384
   Medical assisting ...............................|   1,496|   1,960|   2,130|   2,785|   3,544|   4,941|   5,019|   5,102|   5,358|    5,414|    5,863|    4,748
   Nursing assisting ...............................|       5|      19|      86|       6|       2|       7|      13|      23|      12|        7|        2|        0
   Practical nursing ...............................|     797|     795|     890|     740|     772|     605|     429|     499|     447|      575|      619|      814
   Nursing, R.N. and other .........................|  45,317|  51,193|  54,085|  57,405|  57,456|  56,562|  53,103|  47,365|  43,035|   40,772|   40,284|   40,819
   Health sciences, other ..........................|  17,306|  19,221|  22,267|  26,326|  28,848|  31,322|  31,802|  30,793|  32,126|   28,951|   28,071|   25,683
Home economics and vocational home economics .......|   8,067|   6,436|   6,914|   7,463|   7,821|   8,192|   8,551|   8,292|   8,502|    8,381|    8,630|    9,480
Law and legal studies ..............................|   5,484|   7,053|   8,028|   8,681|   9,140|   9,106|   8,968|   7,797|   7,400|    7,265|    6,854|    6,825
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,         |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |         |         |
  and humanities ...................................| 142,722| 154,594| 158,040| 165,106| 170,817| 174,970| 181,341| 186,248| 181,977|  187,454|  196,843|  207,163
Library science ....................................|     111|     103|      85|     118|     101|      94|     126|      96|      86|       98|      103|       96
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Marketing operations/marketing and distribution ....|  12,713|   8,465|   7,445|   6,736|   6,187|   5,960|   5,656|   5,516|   5,452|    5,557|    5,317|    5,723
Mathematics ........................................|     670|     744|     743|     704|     782|     758|     792|     844|     823|      675|      695|      685
Mechanics and repairers ............................|   7,640|  10,264|  10,966|  11,332|  11,497|  12,524|  12,180|  10,616|  10,806|   11,614|   12,650|   12,086
Multi/interdisciplinary studies ....................|   7,454|   7,841|   8,486|   8,436|   8,692|   8,611|   9,182|   9,401|   8,658|   11,784|   10,438|   13,204
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies ....|     425|     620|     717|     755|     864|     936|     913|     895|     871|      855|      841|      830
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Philosophy and religion ............................|      89|      60|     111|      82|      81|      83|      89|      94|      74|       63|       65|      134
Physical sciences ..................................|   2,091|   2,066|   2,241|   2,546|   2,456|   2,612|   2,526|   2,286|   2,399|    2,460|    2,337|    2,308
   Physical sciences, other ........................|   1,281|   1,228|   1,390|   1,567|   1,645|   1,749|   1,728|   1,584|   1,594|    1,350|    1,207|    1,346
   Science technologies ............................|     810|     838|     851|     979|     811|     863|     798|     702|     805|    1,110|    1,130|      962
Precision production trades ........................|   9,093|   9,005|   9,204|   9,357|   9,344|  10,217|  10,368|  11,085|  11,598|   11,814|   11,493|   10,818
Protective services ................................|  13,564|  15,117|  16,834|  18,199|  19,709|  19,196|  19,889|  19,002|  17,430|   16,298|   16,425|   16,689
   Criminal justice and corrections ................|  11,358|  12,649|  14,295|  15,262|  16,584|  15,990|  16,644|  15,915|  14,448|   13,487|   13,589|   13,603
   Fire control and safety .........................|   1,634|   1,989|   2,020|   2,243|   2,447|   2,523|   2,638|   2,480|   2,395|    2,364|    2,346|    2,619
   Protective services, other ......................|     572|     479|     519|     694|     678|     683|     607|     607|     587|      447|      490|      467
Psychology .........................................|     997|   1,209|   1,237|   1,377|   1,600|   1,583|   1,612|   1,765|   1,625|    1,455|    1,554|    1,705
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Public administration and services .................|   2,779|   3,162|   3,301|   3,696|   3,882|   4,218|   4,270|   4,156|   3,881|    3,656|    3,333|    3,323
R.O.T.C. and military technologies .................|      85|     172|      52|     265|     364|     556|     556|      22|      42|       65|      120|       62
Social sciences and history ........................|   2,505|   3,160|   3,930|   3,936|   3,634|   4,021|   4,056|   4,196|   4,550|    5,136|    5,132|    5,593
Theological studies/religious vocations ............|     578|     496|     508|     641|     607|     608|     574|     570|     476|      636|      576|      414
Transportation and material moving workers .........|   2,609|   2,418|   2,210|   1,922|   1,446|   1,571|   1,612|   1,009|   1,154|    1,021|    1,068|    1,159
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Visual and performing arts .........................|   9,126|  11,888|  12,690|  13,227|  12,544|  13,534|  13,593|  14,980|  17,640|   17,100|   18,435|   20,911
   Fine arts, general ..............................|   1,166|   1,159|   1,346|   1,473|   1,420|   1,515|   1,516|   1,281|   3,029|    1,314|    1,435|    1,521
   Design and music ................................|   5,986|   9,142|   9,699|  10,173|   9,805|  10,579|  10,459|  11,591|  12,026|   12,780|   14,410|   16,388
   Visual and performing arts, other ...............|   1,974|   1,587|   1,645|   1,581|   1,319|   1,440|   1,618|   2,108|   2,585|    3,006|    2,590|    3,002
Not classified by field of study ...................|  19,690|   9,844|   6,602|   1,526|   1,146|   1,591|   7,606|   3,017|   2,494|    2,798|      584|      365
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NOTE: Data were imputed for 1998-99 using alternative procedures. (See Guide to Sources for details.)

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Completions" surveys, 1990-91 through 1998-99, and Fall 2000 through Fall 2002 surveys. (This table was prepared August 2003.)


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