Table 282.

Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2006–07

Field of study	Total							Males							Females
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native	Non-resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/Pacific Islander	American Indian/Alaska Native	Non- resident alien
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21	22
All fields, total	728,114	491,572	91,529	85,410	37,266	8,583	13,754	275,187	191,565	28,273	31,646	15,510	2,873	5,320	452,927	300,007	63,256	53,764	21,756	5,710	8,434
Agriculture and natural resources	5,838	5,459	72	172	34	83	18	3,626	3,419	49	95	15	38	10	2,212	2,040	23	77	19	45	8
Architecture and related services	517	316	38	115	29	3	16	231	116	31	62	15	2	5	286	200	7	53	14	1	11
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	164	39	15	33	6	70	1	53	12	8	13	2	18	0	111	27	7	20	4	52	1
Biological and biomedical sciences	2,060	1,144	192	342	270	58	54	676	383	68	96	83	16	30	1,384	761	124	246	187	42	24
Business	116,101	74,402	18,032	12,413	6,405	1,313	3,536	41,413	27,654	5,135	4,410	2,495	387	1,332	74,688	46,748	12,897	8,003	3,910	926	2,204
Communications, journalism, and related programs	2,609	1,889	244	283	80	21	92	1,311	981	105	144	40	8	33	1,298	908	139	139	40	13	59
Communications technologies	3,095	2,289	344	270	121	27	44	1,874	1,397	207	155	75	15	25	1,221	892	137	115	46	12	19
Computer and information sciences	27,712	18,379	4,301	3,008	1,282	315	427	20,459	14,119	2,617	2,282	943	204	294	7,253	4,260	1,684	726	339	111	133
Construction trades	3,895	3,342	262	170	72	45	4	3,696	3,192	243	148	68	41	4	199	150	19	22	4	4	0
Education	13,021	8,479	2,139	1,542	221	509	131	1,773	1,254	218	162	27	95	17	11,248	7,225	1,921	1,380	194	414	114
Engineering	2,136	1,338	201	291	184	31	91	1,835	1,173	166	246	149	25	76	301	165	35	45	35	6	15
Engineering technologies1	29,199	21,284	3,190	2,989	1,144	298	294	25,155	18,555	2,637	2,527	962	231	243	4,044	2,729	553	462	182	67	51
English language and literature/letters	1,249	709	102	286	104	15	33	378	213	29	83	45	3	5	871	496	73	203	59	12	28
Family and consumer sciences	9,124	4,864	1,978	1,679	329	140	134	333	189	68	47	18	2	9	8,791	4,675	1,910	1,632	311	138	125
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,207	784	76	262	41	13	31	195	111	13	51	10	1	9	1,012	673	63	211	31	12	22
Health professions and related clinical sciences	145,436	104,730	18,861	12,294	6,672	1,501	1,378	21,214	14,227	2,493	2,245	1,745	196	308	124,222	90,503	16,368	10,049	4,927	1,305	1,070
Legal professions and studies	10,391	6,751	1,937	1,324	228	103	48	1,046	635	206	142	37	20	6	9,345	6,116	1,731	1,182	191	83	42
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	250,030	166,142	27,673	33,684	14,239	2,709	5,583	93,711	63,901	8,982	11,851	5,832	929	2,216	156,319	102,241	18,691	21,833	8,407	1,780	3,367
Library science	84	69	4	5	2	4	0	8	8	0	0	0	0	0	76	61	4	5	2	4	0
Mathematics and statistics	827	462	49	187	85	15	29	548	296	36	133	57	8	18	279	166	13	54	28	7	11
Mechanics and repair technologies	15,432	11,364	1,127	1,780	821	246	94	14,720	10,913	1,040	1,678	781	223	85	712	451	87	102	40	23	9
Military technologies	781	539	106	80	49	7	0	641	447	84	66	39	5	0	140	92	22	14	10	2	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	15,838	9,248	1,716	2,589	1,814	106	365	6,578	4,047	729	888	733	44	137	9,260	5,201	987	1,701	1,081	62	228
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	1,251	873	179	116	32	26	25	749	515	116	72	23	17	6	502	358	63	44	9	9	19
Philosophy and religious studies	375	329	17	17	5	1	6	115	86	12	10	4	1	2	260	243	5	7	1	0	4
Physical sciences and science technologies	3,404	2,212	258	378	376	43	137	1,948	1,295	136	232	181	18	86	1,456	917	122	146	195	25	51
Precision production	1,973	1,735	81	97	41	16	3	1,849	1,630	70	93	39	14	3	124	105	11	4	2	2	0
Psychology	2,213	1,335	214	470	96	77	21	517	307	37	117	27	25	4	1,696	1,028	177	353	69	52	17
Public administration and social service professions	4,338	2,275	1,238	616	78	96	35	596	296	164	101	14	16	5	3,742	1,979	1,074	515	64	80	30
Security and protective services	28,208	18,952	4,171	4,095	592	299	99	15,481	11,675	1,342	1,907	380	134	43	12,727	7,277	2,829	2,188	212	165	56
Social sciences and history	7,080	3,953	723	1,446	609	208	141	2,494	1,464	223	460	248	48	51	4,586	2,489	500	986	361	160	90
Social sciences	6,673	3,666	714	1,366	587	200	140	2,252	1,290	218	411	238	44	51	4,421	2,376	496	955	349	156	89
History	407	287	9	80	22	8	1	242	174	5	49	10	4	0	165	113	4	31	12	4	1
Theology and religious vocations	608	469	105	18	5	4	7	313	224	71	10	2	2	4	295	245	34	8	3	2	3
Transportation and materials moving	1,674	1,276	112	163	65	24	34	1,442	1,120	94	137	52	19	20	232	156	18	26	13	5	14
Visual and performing arts	20,244	14,141	1,772	2,196	1,135	157	843	8,209	5,711	844	983	369	68	234	12,035	8,430	928	1,213	766	89	609

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately. NOTE: 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, 2005–06 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2006. (This table was prepared June 2007.)