Table 280.

Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by discipline division: 1997-98 through 2008-09

Discipline division	1997-98	1998-99	1999-2000	2000-01	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Total	558,555	559,954	564,933	578,865	595,133	634,016	665,301	696,660	713,066	728,114	750,164	787,325
Agriculture and natural resources, total	6,673	6,632	6,666	6,649	6,494	6,210	6,283	6,404	6,168	5,838	5,738	5,724
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and     related sciences	5,206	5,220	5,292	5,200	5,125	4,892	4,959	5,137	4,958	4,638	4,554	4,525
Natural resources and conservation	1,467	1,412	1,374	1,449	1,369	1,318	1,324	1,267	1,210	1,200	1,184	1,199
Architecture and related services	265	405	392	417	443	440	492	583	656	517	568	596
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	97	85	113	73	94	120	105	115	124	164	169	173
Biological and biomedical sciences	2,113	2,213	1,448	1,443	1,534	1,496	1,456	1,709	1,827	2,060	2,200	2,364
Business, management, and marketing	87,672	86,964	86,106	87,059	86,713	89,627	92,065	96,067	96,933	99,998	104,566	111,521
Accounting	14,807	14,325	13,562	13,158	12,315	13,229	14,506	13,988	13,620	14,232	15,965	16,731
Business, general	11,311	11,514	12,283	12,621	12,936	13,054	13,387	12,050	13,297	12,725	12,473	13,067
Business administration and management	28,793	28,615	28,486	28,947	30,268	33,112	33,652	42,979	43,868	47,684	52,560	58,050
Business and management, other	14,148	14,027	13,398	13,122	13,269	13,108	14,909	13,042	13,925	14,486	14,490	15,021
Management information systems	4,261	4,526	5,394	6,016	6,417	5,600	4,214	2,812	2,179	2,007	1,237	1,103
Secretarial and related programs	14,352	13,957	12,983	13,195	11,508	11,524	11,397	11,196	10,044	8,864	7,841	7,549
Communications	2,368	2,639	2,754	2,949	2,819	2,589	2,444	2,545	2,629	2,609	2,620	2,722
Communications technologies	2,642	2,528	2,625	3,038	3,006	3,304	3,401	3,516	3,380	3,095	4,237	4,803
Computer and information sciences	18,185	22,445	28,185	34,356	40,127	46,234	41,845	36,173	31,246	27,712	28,296	30,006
Construction trades	2,172	2,137	2,337	2,682	2,639	3,009	3,560	3,512	3,850	3,895	4,309	4,252
Education	9,461	10,165	8,510	9,533	9,611	11,205	12,465	13,329	14,475	13,021	13,108	14,123
Engineering	2,118	2,012	1,722	1,795	1,691	2,177	2,737	2,441	2,162	2,136	2,286	2,181
Engineering-related technologies	40,784	42,362	43,732	42,366	40,217	39,998	36,915	33,548	30,461	29,199	29,334	30,434
English language and literature/letters	1,035	1,032	947	877	864	896	828	995	1,105	1,249	1,402	1,525
Family and consumer sciences	7,811	8,063	8,031	8,329	9,208	9,496	9,478	9,707	9,488	9,124	8,613	9,020
Foreign languages, literatures, and    linguistics	1,674	1,705	1,059	1,100	1,085	1,050	1,047	1,234	1,161	1,207	1,258	1,627
Health professions and related sciences	94,940	93,218	86,676	84,656	82,361	90,716	106,208	122,520	134,931	145,436	155,816	165,163
Dental assisting	4,904	6,628	5,569	5,193	5,223	5,498	5,652	5,813	6,085	6,313	6,642	6,633
Emergency medical technician (EMT
paramedic)	975	918	1,152	1,134	1,203	1,410	1,617	1,825	1,980	2,008	2,140	2,270
Medical lab technician	2,370	2,033	1,644	1,502	1,384	1,496	1,678	1,932	2,030	2,160	2,152	2,285
Medical assisting	5,102	5,358	5,414	5,863	4,748	5,859	8,499	10,411	12,367	12,071	11,261	11,967
Nursing assisting	23	12	7	2	0	8	4	38	101	158	329	385
Practical nursing	499	447	575	619	814	916	1,049	1,388	1,481	1,509	1,417	1,299
Nursing, R.N. and other	47,329	43,029	40,767	40,278	40,800	45,117	51,552	58,007	62,095	66,516	73,277	77,929
Health sciences, other	33,738	34,793	31,548	30,065	28,189	30,412	36,157	43,106	48,792	54,701	58,598	62,395
Legal professions and studies	9,890	9,133	8,842	8,119	7,815	8,412	9,466	9,885	10,509	10,391	9,465	9,062
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,    and humanities	186,248	181,977	187,454	196,843	207,163	217,361	227,650	240,131	244,689	250,030	254,012	263,853
Library science	96	86	98	103	96	87	114	108	136	84	117	116
Mathematics	844	823	675	695	685	732	801	807	753	827	855	930
Mechanics and repairers	10,576	10,781	11,678	12,689	12,063	12,028	12,553	13,619	14,454	15,432	15,297	16,066
Military technologies	22	42	65	120	62	85	293	355	610	781	851	721
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	9,402	8,661	11,784	10,439	13,205	14,067	14,794	13,888	14,473	15,838	16,255	15,459
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness    studies	840	819	819	790	764	805	923	966	1,128	1,251	1,344	1,587
Personal and culinary services	7,648	8,933	9,203	9,786	9,325	12,607	14,239	16,311	17,162	16,103	16,592	16,327
Philosophy and religion	101	297	209	299	359	379	404	422	367	375	458	191
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,286	2,399	2,460	2,337	2,308	2,190	2,676	2,814	2,902	3,404	3,388	3,617
Physical sciences	1,584	1,679	1,350	1,207	1,346	1,141	1,588	1,626	1,733	2,015	1,973	2,190
Science technologies	702	720	1,110	1,130	962	1,049	1,088	1,188	1,169	1,389	1,415	1,427
Precision production trades	1,929	2,201	2,308	2,256	2,260	2,287	1,968	2,039	1,977	1,973	1,968	2,126
Psychology	1,765	1,625	1,455	1,554	1,705	1,785	1,887	1,942	1,944	2,213	2,412	3,949
Public administration and social services	4,156	3,881	3,656	3,333	3,323	3,534	3,728	4,027	4,415	4,338	4,192	4,178
Security and protective services	19,002	17,430	16,298	16,425	16,689	18,614	20,573	23,749	26,425	28,208	29,590	33,033
Criminal justice and corrections	15,915	14,448	13,487	13,589	13,603	15,155	17,040	19,942	22,351	23,917	25,588	28,996
Fire control and safety	2,480	2,395	2,364	2,346	2,619	2,941	3,012	3,366	3,554	3,811	3,937	3,970
Security and protective services, other	607	587	447	490	467	518	521	441	520	480	65	67
Social sciences and history	4,196	4,550	5,136	5,132	5,593	5,720	6,245	6,533	6,730	7,080	7,812	9,142
Social sciences	3,910	4,254	4,812	4,877	5,304	5,404	5,875	6,233	6,308	6,673	7,358	8,657
History	286	296	324	255	289	316	370	300	422	407	454	485
Theology and religious vocations	570	476	636	576	414	425	492	581	570	608	582	675
Transportation and material moving workers	977	1,101	956	1,028	1,122	1,211	1,217	1,435	1,472	1,674	1,550	1,430
Visual and performing arts	14,980	17,640	17,100	18,435	20,911	23,120	23,949	22,650	21,754	20,244	18,890	18,629
Fine arts, general	1,281	3,029	1,314	1,435	1,521	1,763	1,326	1,623	1,651	1,758	1,711	2,023
Design and music	11,591	12,026	12,780	14,410	16,388	18,342	18,836	17,482	16,387	15,467	14,296	13,599
Visual and performing arts, other	2,108	2,585	3,006	2,590	3,002	3,015	3,787	3,545	3,716	3,019	2,883	3,007
Not classified by field of study	3,017	2,494	2,798	584	365	0	0	0	0	0	14	0

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. The new Classification of Instructional Programs was initiated in 2002-03. The figures for earlier years have been reclassified when necessary to make them conform to the new taxonomy. To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the IPEDS "Completions Survey": "Agriculture and natural resources" includes Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences and Natural resources and conservation; "Business" includes Business, management, marketing, and related support services and Personal and culinary services; and "Engineering technologies" includes Engineering technologies/technicians, Construction trades, and Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1997-98 through 2008-09 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, "Completions Survey" (IPEDS-C:98-99), and Fall 2000 through Fall 2009. (This table was prepared August 2010.)