Table 281.

Associate's degrees and other subbaccalaureate awards conferred by degree-granting institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, and discipline division: 2008-09

Discipline division	Less-than-1-year awards			1- to less-than-4-year awards			Associate's degrees
	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Total	285,277	126,389	158,888	216,379	82,549	133,830	787,325	298,141	489,184
Agriculture and natural resources, total	3,167	2,357	810	1,817	1,194	623	5,724	3,755	1,969
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and     related sciences	2,550	1,832	718	1,742	1,139	603	4,525	2,871	1,654
Natural resources and conservation	617	525	92	75	55	20	1,199	884	315
Architecture and related services	256	174	82	72	45	27	596	274	322
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	434	99	335	102	38	64	173	51	122
Biological and biomedical sciences	118	54	64	26	9	17	2,364	756	1,608
Business, management, and marketing	31,869	10,399	21,470	15,588	4,190	11,398	111,521	37,868	73,653
Accounting	5,827	1,259	4,568	3,430	699	2,731	16,731	3,687	13,044
Business, general	1,106	567	539	1,010	498	512	13,067	5,536	7,531
Business administration and management	8,086	3,190	4,896	3,565	1,314	2,251	58,050	22,490	35,560
Business and management, other	7,651	3,016	4,635	2,423	1,051	1,372	15,021	4,864	10,157
Management information systems	419	319	100	318	200	118	1,103	682	421
Secretarial and related programs	8,780	2,048	6,732	4,842	428	4,414	7,549	609	6,940
Communications	327	155	172	351	194	157	2,722	1,252	1,470
Communications technologies	1,138	641	497	973	605	368	4,803	3,372	1,431
Computer and information sciences	10,436	7,139	3,297	5,783	3,823	1,960	30,006	22,553	7,453
Construction trades	9,102	8,661	441	8,334	8,022	312	4,252	4,035	217
Education	2,788	229	2,559	2,647	386	2,261	14,123	2,040	12,083
Engineering	189	158	31	113	102	11	2,181	1,870	311
Engineering-related technologies	10,156	8,574	1,582	6,921	6,107	814	30,434	26,143	4,291
English language and literature/letters	1,218	462	756	252	107	145	1,525	541	984
Family and consumer sciences	11,816	1,918	9,898	2,738	329	2,409	9,020	356	8,664
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	881	228	653	512	58	454	1,627	261	1,366
Health professions and related sciences	120,911	23,627	97,284	101,312	14,463	86,849	165,163	24,270	140,893
Dental assisting	4,285	401	3,884	7,007	341	6,666	6,633	282	6,351
Emergency medical technician (EMT     paramedic)	14,136	9,599	4,537	3,893	3,012	881	2,270	1,582	688
Medical lab technician	313	31	282	542	329	213	2,285	546	1,739
Medical assisting	20,151	1,664	18,487	20,125	1,455	18,670	11,967	691	11,276
Nursing assisting	30,163	3,466	26,697	649	61	588	385	39	346
Practical nursing	4,573	524	4,049	32,465	3,372	29,093	1,299	134	1,165
Nursing, R.N. and other	2,156	222	1,934	3,540	476	3,064	77,929	9,996	67,933
Health sciences, other	45,134	7,720	37,414	33,091	5,417	27,674	62,395	11,000	51,395
Legal professions and studies	1,457	216	1,241	2,281	353	1,928	9,062	937	8,125
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,    and humanities	613	172	441	10,684	4,205	6,479	263,853	102,218	161,635
Library science	184	21	163	66	14	52	116	15	101
Mathematics	10	7	3	2	2	0	930	635	295
Mechanics and repairers	20,219	19,103	1,116	22,341	21,380	961	16,066	15,176	890
Military technologies	3	3	0	0	0	0	721	563	158
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	845	449	396	1,154	491	663	15,459	5,955	9,504
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness    studies	346	172	174	327	130	197	1,587	946	641
Personal and culinary services	8,829	2,094	6,735	10,981	2,239	8,742	16,327	7,867	8,460
Philosophy and religion	68	32	36	35	13	22	191	136	55
Physical sciences and science technologies	227	141	86	453	264	189	3,617	2,120	1,497
Physical sciences	25	13	12	22	7	15	2,190	1,272	918
Science technologies	202	128	74	431	257	174	1,427	848	579
Precision production trades	9,530	8,974	556	6,639	6,304	335	2,126	1,988	138
Psychology	81	15	66	38	4	34	3,949	744	3,205
Public administration and social services	1,006	188	818	549	96	453	4,178	583	3,595
Security and protective services	19,113	14,620	4,493	5,251	3,869	1,382	33,033	17,230	15,803
Criminal justice and corrections	14,295	10,128	4,167	4,136	2,851	1,285	28,996	13,489	15,507
Fire control and safety	4,701	4,425	276	1,022	963	59	3,970	3,705	265
Security and protective services, other	117	67	50	93	55	38	67	36	31
Social sciences and history	333	170	163	183	109	74	9,142	3,253	5,889
Social sciences	319	167	152	183	109	74	8,657	2,949	5,708
History	14	3	11	0	0	0	485	304	181
Theology and religious vocations	135	55	80	360	160	200	675	337	338
Transportation and material moving workers	14,848	13,923	925	584	544	40	1,430	1,248	182
Visual and performing arts	2,624	1,159	1,465	6,910	2,700	4,210	18,629	6,793	11,836
Fine arts, general	147	82	65	3,010	1,114	1,896	2,023	634	1,389
Design and music	1,970	839	1,131	2,615	904	1,711	13,599	4,630	8,969
Visual and performing arts, other	507	238	269	1,285	682	603	3,007	1,529	1,478
Not classified by field of study	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2008-09 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2009. (This table was prepared August 2010.)