Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by field of study: 1991-92 to 2002-03

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Table 248.
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                                                    |1991-92 |1992-93 |1993-94 |1994-95 |1995-96 |1996-97 |1997-98 |1998-99 |1999-2000| 2000-01 | 2001-02 | 2002-03
Field of study                                      |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |    \1\ |         |         |         |
____________________________________________________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|_________|_________|_________|_________
1                                                   |      2 |      3 |      4 |      5 |      6 |      7 |      8 |      9 |      10 |      11 |      12 |      13
____________________________________________________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|_________|_________|_________|_________
   Total ...........................................| 504,231| 514,756| 530,632| 539,691| 555,216| 571,226| 558,555| 559,954|  564,933|  578,865|  595,133|  632,912
                                                    |________|________|________|________|________|________|________|________|_________|_________|_________|_________
Agriculture and natural resources, total ...........|   5,233|   5,383|   5,625|   5,730|   6,182|   6,463|   6,673|   6,632|    6,666|    6,649|    6,494|    6,208
  Agriculture, agriculture operations, and          |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |         |         |         |
     related sciences ..............................|   3,979|   4,044|   4,294|   4,393|   4,723|   5,021|   5,206|   5,220|    5,292|    5,200|    5,125|    4,890
  Natural resources and conservation ...............|   1,254|   1,339|   1,331|   1,337|   1,459|   1,442|   1,467|   1,412|    1,374|    1,449|    1,369|    1,318
Architecture and related services ..................|     443|     372|     353|     277|     256|     316|     265|     405|      392|      417|      443|      440
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies .........|      29|      33|      75|      68|     110|      82|      97|      85|      113|       73|       94|      126
Biological/life sciences ...........................|   1,375|   1,449|   1,789|   1,861|   2,049|   2,133|   2,113|   2,213|    1,448|    1,443|    1,534|    1,496
Business, management, and marketing ................|  95,812|  92,676|  91,612|  89,162|  90,945|  92,228|  87,672|  86,964|   86,106|   87,059|   86,713|   89,564
  Accounting .......................................|  15,987|  15,115|  15,307|  14,970|  15,926|  16,017|  14,807|  14,325|   13,562|   13,158|   12,315|   13,234
  Business, general ................................|  11,823|  11,190|  11,452|  11,622|  11,397|  11,385|  11,311|  11,514|   12,283|   12,621|   12,936|   13,010
  Business administration and management ...........|   6,985|  29,556|  29,691|  28,967|  28,901|  29,804|  28,793|  28,615|   28,486|   28,947|   30,268|   33,024
  Business and management, other ...................|  43,454|  19,810|  18,310|  11,232|  15,910|  15,197|  14,148|  14,027|   13,398|   13,122|   13,269|   13,352
  Management information systems ...................|   3,175|   3,048|   3,094|   3,884|   4,539|   4,936|   4,261|   4,526|    5,394|    6,016|    6,417|    5,602
  Secretarial and related programs .................|  14,388|  13,957|  13,758|  18,487|  14,272|  14,889|  14,352|  13,957|   12,983|   13,195|   11,508|   11,342
Communications .....................................|   1,886|   1,904|   2,052|   3,160|   2,187|   2,030|   2,368|   2,639|    2,754|    2,949|    2,819|    2,602
Communications technologies ........................|   2,660|   2,692|   3,420|   3,035|   2,807|   2,863|   2,642|   2,528|    2,625|    3,038|    3,006|    3,300
Computer and information sciences ..................|  12,509|  12,473|  12,630|  12,230|  12,500|  14,607|  18,185|  22,445|   28,185|   34,356|   40,127|   46,089
Construction trades ................................|   1,560|   1,653|   1,695|   1,728|   2,141|   1,928|   2,172|   2,137|    2,337|    2,682|    2,639|    3,001
Education ..........................................|  10,354|   9,358|   9,301|   9,691|   9,809|  10,587|   9,461|  10,165|    8,510|    9,533|    9,611|   11,199
Engineering ........................................|   2,659|   2,448|   2,381|   2,191|   2,158|   1,921|   2,118|   2,012|    1,722|    1,795|    1,691|    2,176
Engineering-related technologies ...................|  42,064|  43,084|  42,453|  41,438|  40,447|  41,349|  40,784|  42,362|   43,732|   42,366|   40,217|   39,957
English language and literature/letters ............|     512|     619|     697|     895|     813|     892|   1,035|   1,032|      947|      877|      864|      896
Family and consumer sciences .......................|   6,084|   6,499|   6,960|   7,234|   7,651|   7,998|   7,811|   8,063|    8,031|    8,329|    9,208|    9,471
Foreign languages and literatures ..................|   1,196|   1,510|   1,447|   1,694|   1,612|   1,768|   1,674|   1,705|    1,059|    1,100|    1,085|    1,050
Health professions and related sciences ............|  80,659|  87,671|  96,597| 100,714| 104,775| 102,077|  94,940|  93,218|   86,676|   84,656|   82,361|   90,536
  Dental assisting .................................|   4,013|   4,165|   3,989|   4,312|   4,564|   4,866|   4,904|   6,628|    5,569|    5,193|    5,223|    5,466
  Emergency medical technician-ambulance and        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |         |         |         |
     paramedic .....................................|     378|     442|     510|     771|     889|   1,048|     975|     918|    1,152|    1,134|    1,203|    1,398
  Medical lab technician ...........................|   1,874|   2,172|   2,570|   2,769|   2,982|   2,641|   2,370|   2,033|    1,644|    1,502|    1,384|    1,494
  Medical assisting ................................|   1,960|   2,130|   2,785|   3,544|   4,941|   5,019|   5,102|   5,358|    5,414|    5,863|    4,748|    5,846
  Nursing assisting ................................|      19|      86|       6|       2|       7|      13|      23|      12|        7|        2|        0|        8
  Practical nursing ................................|     795|     890|     740|     772|     605|     429|     499|     447|      575|      619|      814|      916
  Nursing, R.N. and other ..........................|  51,190|  54,079|  57,397|  57,456|  56,469|  52,983|  47,329|  43,029|   40,767|   40,278|   40,800|   45,044
  Health sciences, other ...........................|  20,430|  23,707|  28,600|  31,088|  34,318|  35,078|  33,738|  34,793|   31,548|   30,065|   28,189|   30,364
Legal professions and studies ......................|   9,121|   9,927|  10,905|  11,147|  11,916|  11,242|   9,890|   9,133|    8,842|    8,119|    7,815|    8,390
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,         |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |        |         |         |         |
   and humanities ..................................| 154,594| 158,040| 165,106| 170,817| 174,970| 181,341| 186,248| 181,977|  187,454|  196,843|  207,163|  216,814
Library science ....................................|     103|      85|     118|     101|      94|     126|      96|      86|       98|      103|       96|       87
Mathematics ........................................|     744|     743|     704|     782|     758|     792|     844|     823|      675|      695|      685|      732
Mechanics and repairers ............................|  10,261|  10,981|  11,348|  11,503|  12,519|  12,126|  10,576|  10,781|   11,678|   12,689|   12,063|   11,994
Military technologies ..............................|     172|      52|     265|     364|     556|     556|      22|      42|       65|      120|       62|       85
Multi/interdisciplinary studies ....................|   7,870|   8,504|   8,450|   8,719|   8,619|   9,182|   9,402|   8,661|   11,784|   10,439|   13,205|   14,067
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies ....|     610|     693|     731|     829|     897|     885|     840|     819|      819|      790|      764|      811
Personal and culinary services .....................|   4,423|   4,694|   5,177|   5,627|   7,720|   8,172|   7,648|   8,933|    9,203|    9,786|    9,325|   12,593
Philosophy and religion ............................|      60|     111|      82|      81|      84|      91|     101|     297|      209|      299|      359|      379
Physical sciences and science technologies .........|   2,066|   2,241|   2,546|   2,456|   2,612|   2,526|   2,286|   2,399|    2,460|    2,337|    2,308|    2,190
  Physical sciences ................................|   1,228|   1,390|   1,567|   1,645|   1,749|   1,728|   1,584|   1,679|    1,350|    1,207|    1,346|    1,141
  Science technologies .............................|     838|     851|     979|     811|     863|     798|     702|     720|    1,110|    1,130|      962|    1,049
Precision production trades ........................|   1,880|   1,569|   1,611|   1,601|   1,727|   1,773|   1,929|   2,201|    2,308|    2,256|    2,260|    2,279
Psychology .........................................|   1,209|   1,237|   1,377|   1,600|   1,583|   1,612|   1,765|   1,625|    1,455|    1,554|    1,705|    1,784
Public administration and social services ..........|   3,162|   3,301|   3,696|   3,882|   4,218|   4,270|   4,156|   3,881|    3,656|    3,333|    3,323|    3,533
Security and protective services ...................|  15,117|  16,834|  18,199|  19,709|  19,196|  19,889|  19,002|  17,430|   16,298|   16,425|   16,689|   18,571
  Criminal justice and corrections .................|  12,649|  14,295|  15,262|  16,584|  15,990|  16,644|  15,915|  14,448|   13,487|   13,589|   13,603|   15,136
  Fire control and safety ..........................|   1,989|   2,020|   2,243|   2,447|   2,523|   2,638|   2,480|   2,395|    2,364|    2,346|    2,619|    2,917
  Security and protective services, other ..........|     479|     519|     694|     678|     683|     607|     607|     587|      447|      490|      467|      518
Social sciences and history ........................|   3,160|   3,930|   3,936|   3,634|   4,021|   4,056|   4,196|   4,550|    5,136|    5,132|    5,593|    5,738
  Social sciences ..................................|   2,913|   3,656|   3,635|   3,349|   3,727|   3,741|   3,910|   4,254|    4,812|    4,877|    5,304|    5,422
  History ..........................................|     247|     274|     301|     285|     294|     315|     286|     296|      324|      255|      289|      316
Theology and religious vocations ...................|     496|     508|     641|     607|     608|     574|     570|     476|      636|      576|      414|      425
Transportation and material moving workers .........|   2,416|   2,190|   1,900|   1,434|   1,551|   1,572|     977|   1,101|      956|    1,028|    1,122|    1,202
Visual and performing arts .........................|  11,888|  12,690|  13,227|  12,544|  13,534|  13,593|  14,980|  17,640|   17,100|   18,435|   20,911|   23,127
  Fine arts, general ...............................|   1,159|   1,346|   1,473|   1,420|   1,515|   1,516|   1,281|   3,029|    1,314|    1,435|    1,521|    1,763
  Design and music .................................|   9,142|   9,699|  10,173|   9,805|  10,579|  10,459|  11,591|  12,026|   12,780|   14,410|   16,388|   18,503
  Visual and performing arts, other ................|   1,587|   1,645|   1,581|   1,319|   1,440|   1,618|   2,108|   2,585|    3,006|    2,590|    3,002|    2,861
Not classified by field of study ...................|   9,844|   6,602|   1,526|   1,146|   1,591|   7,606|   3,017|   2,494|    2,798|      584|      365|        0
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\1\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, 1991-92 through 2002-03 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, "Completions Survey" (IPEDS-C:92-99), and Fall 2000 through Fall 2003. (This table was prepared February 2005.)
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