Table 294.

Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2008-09

Field of study	Total							Males							Females
	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent alien	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent alien	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent 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	787,325	522,985	101,487	97,921	40,914	8,834	15,184	298,141	203,086	31,994	36,739	17,156	3,074	6,092	489,184	319,899	69,493	61,182	23,758	5,760	9,092
Agriculture and natural resources	5,724	5,345	49	150	54	99	27	3,755	3,531	27	97	22	57	21	1,969	1,814	22	53	32	42	6
Architecture and related services	596	364	23	151	39	7	12	274	152	13	75	28	3	3	322	212	10	76	11	4	9
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	173	17	26	34	10	81	5	51	4	16	10	1	20	0	122	13	10	24	9	61	5
Biological and biomedical sciences	2,364	1,282	183	416	359	55	69	756	433	50	122	110	14	27	1,608	849	133	294	249	41	42
Business	127,848	80,434	20,326	14,604	7,270	1,445	3,769	45,735	29,576	5,958	5,328	2,921	479	1,473	82,113	50,858	14,368	9,276	4,349	966	2,296
Communications, journalism, and related programs	2,722	1,974	261	310	85	26	66	1,252	953	90	147	30	14	18	1,470	1,021	171	163	55	12	48
Communications technologies	4,803	3,478	542	440	186	48	109	3,372	2,441	389	317	126	31	68	1,431	1,037	153	123	60	17	41
Computer and information sciences	30,006	19,955	4,705	3,043	1,496	320	487	22,553	15,500	2,972	2,372	1,174	200	335	7,453	4,455	1,733	671	322	120	152
Construction trades	4,252	3,484	359	222	97	81	9	4,035	3,321	334	209	92	72	7	217	163	25	13	5	9	2
Education	14,123	9,569	2,102	1,664	267	388	133	2,040	1,456	205	220	51	80	28	12,083	8,113	1,897	1,444	216	308	105
Engineering	2,181	1,408	174	250	183	19	147	1,870	1,257	142	191	149	15	116	311	151	32	59	34	4	31
Engineering technologies1	30,434	21,875	3,423	3,376	1,213	326	221	26,143	18,995	2,816	2,874	1,021	267	170	4,291	2,880	607	502	192	59	51
English language and literature/letters	1,525	831	104	377	167	14	32	541	293	36	129	71	5	7	984	538	68	248	96	9	25
Family and consumer sciences	9,020	4,908	1,931	1,616	336	104	125	356	171	73	78	26	5	3	8,664	4,737	1,858	1,538	310	99	122
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,627	1,086	91	286	41	22	101	261	134	9	63	16	4	35	1,366	952	82	223	25	18	66
Health professions and related clinical sciences	165,163	116,434	21,824	14,799	8,662	1,697	1,747	24,270	15,779	2,881	2,658	2,272	229	451	140,893	100,655	18,943	12,141	6,390	1,468	1,296
Legal professions and studies	9,062	5,954	1,606	1,145	208	90	59	937	565	187	121	38	15	11	8,125	5,389	1,419	1,024	170	75	48
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,    and humanities	263,853	172,756	30,433	38,125	13,914	2,626	5,999	102,218	68,386	10,629	13,920	5,893	879	2,511	161,635	104,370	19,804	24,205	8,021	1,747	3,488
Library science	116	96	3	9	6	1	1	15	10	2	1	1	1	0	101	86	1	8	5	0	1
Mathematics and statistics	930	490	38	210	138	12	42	635	338	27	152	81	9	28	295	152	11	58	57	3	14
Mechanics and repair technologies	16,066	11,670	1,418	1,968	670	240	100	15,176	11,093	1,282	1,856	637	218	90	890	577	136	112	33	22	10
Military technologies	721	508	84	85	36	8	0	563	413	58	65	20	7	0	158	95	26	20	16	1	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	15,459	9,105	1,214	2,750	1,891	105	394	5,955	3,749	414	833	787	35	137	9,504	5,356	800	1,917	1,104	70	257
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	1,587	1,088	192	190	57	25	35	946	629	134	113	36	11	23	641	459	58	77	21	14	12
Philosophy and religious studies	191	125	25	23	10	5	3	136	93	16	16	7	3	1	55	32	9	7	3	2	2
Physical sciences and science technologies	3,617	2,241	307	433	391	56	189	2,120	1,343	152	267	208	40	110	1,497	898	155	166	183	16	79
Precision production	2,126	1,819	88	124	58	36	1	1,988	1,719	70	112	56	30	1	138	100	18	12	2	6	0
Psychology	3,949	2,451	419	767	180	80	52	744	443	88	153	46	11	3	3,205	2,008	331	614	134	69	49
Public administration and social service    professions	4,178	2,212	1,200	565	87	85	29	583	292	171	94	9	11	6	3,595	1,920	1,029	471	78	74	23
Security and protective services	33,033	21,288	5,363	5,104	778	363	137	17,230	12,581	1,652	2,279	497	152	69	15,803	8,707	3,711	2,825	281	211	68
Social sciences and history	9,142	4,748	1,031	2,216	801	183	163	3,253	1,793	287	735	319	57	62	5,889	2,955	744	1,481	482	126	101
Social sciences	8,657	4,402	1,021	2,106	789	178	161	2,949	1,579	283	664	308	54	61	5,708	2,823	738	1,442	481	124	100
History	485	346	10	110	12	5	2	304	214	4	71	11	3	1	181	132	6	39	1	2	1
Theology and religious vocations	675	461	157	32	11	5	9	337	222	86	15	5	3	6	338	239	71	17	6	2	3
Transportation and materials moving	1,430	1,034	108	168	60	18	42	1,248	922	98	142	49	16	21	182	112	10	26	11	2	21
Visual and performing arts	18,629	12,495	1,678	2,269	1,153	164	870	6,793	4,499	630	975	357	81	251	11,836	7,996	1,048	1,294	796	83	619
Other and not classified	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repair technologies," which are listed separately.

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. 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, 2008-09 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2009. (This table was prepared September 2010.)