Table 295.

Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2007-08

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	750,164	501,079	95,702	91,274	38,843	8,849	14,417	282,521	194,099	30,016	33,817	15,936	3,003	5,650	467,643	306,980	65,686	57,457	22,907	5,846	8,767
Agriculture and natural resources	5,738	5,364	70	146	38	93	27	3,598	3,370	52	87	16	62	11	2,140	1,994	18	59	22	31	16
Architecture and related services	568	320	46	115	48	9	30	260	126	31	58	33	4	8	308	194	15	57	15	5	22
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	169	27	28	32	2	78	2	59	14	10	12	0	23	0	110	13	18	20	2	55	2
Biological and biomedical sciences	2,200	1,201	168	372	323	60	76	667	360	56	116	97	14	24	1,533	841	112	256	226	46	52
Business	121,158	77,175	18,739	13,509	6,951	1,469	3,315	43,245	28,504	5,473	4,827	2,759	426	1,256	77,913	48,671	13,266	8,682	4,192	1,043	2,059
Communications, journalism, and related programs	2,620	1,840	253	317	91	33	86	1,271	933	106	141	50	15	26	1,349	907	147	176	41	18	60
Communications technologies	4,237	3,099	501	377	141	34	85	2,968	2,153	369	264	98	23	61	1,269	946	132	113	43	11	24
Computer and information sciences	28,296	18,774	4,582	2,928	1,286	326	400	21,191	14,523	2,862	2,307	997	202	300	7,105	4,251	1,720	621	289	124	100
Construction trades	4,309	3,572	287	284	86	72	8	4,106	3,415	267	269	79	68	8	203	157	20	15	7	4	0
Education	13,108	8,660	2,163	1,412	279	427	167	1,914	1,301	272	173	55	85	28	11,194	7,359	1,891	1,239	224	342	139
Engineering	2,286	1,478	238	306	146	30	88	1,986	1,307	208	251	121	21	78	300	171	30	55	25	9	10
Engineering technologies1	29,334	21,032	3,160	3,323	1,233	315	271	25,261	18,421	2,551	2,776	1,046	252	215	4,073	2,611	609	547	187	63	56
English language and literature/letters	1,402	726	122	354	155	13	32	484	235	38	133	63	4	11	918	491	84	221	92	9	21
Family and consumer sciences	8,613	4,614	1,871	1,561	304	120	143	344	191	64	53	23	2	11	8,269	4,423	1,807	1,508	281	118	132
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,258	819	81	277	43	9	29	216	120	8	63	12	3	10	1,042	699	73	214	31	6	19
Health professions and related clinical sciences	155,816	110,963	20,427	13,370	7,749	1,589	1,718	22,934	15,166	2,664	2,525	1,962	224	393	132,882	95,797	17,763	10,845	5,787	1,365	1,325
Legal professions and studies	9,465	6,238	1,662	1,225	205	84	51	1,010	622	190	140	31	18	9	8,455	5,616	1,472	1,085	174	66	42
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,    and humanities	254,012	166,565	28,916	35,871	14,071	2,670	5,919	95,438	64,386	9,613	12,486	5,655	879	2,419	158,574	102,179	19,303	23,385	8,416	1,791	3,500
Library science	117	92	3	17	2	3	0	26	18	0	7	1	0	0	91	74	3	10	1	3	0
Mathematics and statistics	855	436	47	183	128	16	45	575	298	23	137	80	5	32	280	138	24	46	48	11	13
Mechanics and repair technologies	15,297	11,361	1,312	1,685	646	215	78	14,534	10,823	1,219	1,616	612	188	76	763	538	93	69	34	27	2
Military technologies	851	559	159	80	45	8	0	694	465	126	66	31	6	0	157	94	33	14	14	2	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	16,255	9,175	1,801	2,987	1,753	142	397	6,549	3,898	749	944	724	61	173	9,706	5,277	1,052	2,043	1,029	81	224
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies	1,344	939	179	137	33	22	34	809	557	121	85	25	9	12	535	382	58	52	8	13	22
Philosophy and religious studies	458	376	17	25	7	1	32	137	104	7	13	2	1	10	321	272	10	12	5	0	22
Physical sciences and science technologies	3,388	2,121	275	393	381	55	163	1,954	1,244	159	237	191	25	98	1,434	877	116	156	190	30	65
Precision production	1,968	1,712	69	100	56	26	5	1,838	1,603	61	92	53	24	5	130	109	8	8	3	2	0
Psychology	2,412	1,440	228	523	120	71	30	554	336	39	120	33	19	7	1,858	1,104	189	403	87	52	23
Public administration and social service    professions	4,192	2,268	1,141	580	73	96	34	569	311	149	74	9	18	8	3,623	1,957	992	506	64	78	26
Security and protective services	29,590	19,410	4,540	4,563	618	343	116	16,051	11,866	1,406	2,126	414	171	68	13,539	7,544	3,134	2,437	204	172	48
Social sciences and history	7,812	4,224	777	1,779	685	204	143	2,759	1,588	237	566	257	62	49	5,053	2,636	540	1,213	428	142	94
Social sciences	7,358	3,909	759	1,683	669	196	142	2,499	1,407	228	511	246	58	49	4,859	2,502	531	1,172	423	138	93
History	454	315	18	96	16	8	1	260	181	9	55	11	4	0	194	134	9	41	5	4	1
Theology and religious vocations	582	401	139	22	7	7	6	282	180	85	6	2	5	4	300	221	54	16	5	2	2
Transportation and materials moving	1,550	1,139	123	155	83	17	33	1,308	981	105	126	68	15	13	242	158	18	29	15	2	20
Visual and performing arts	18,890	12,959	1,564	2,266	1,055	192	854	6,927	4,680	693	921	337	69	227	11,963	8,279	871	1,345	718	123	627
Other and not classified	14	0	14	0	0	0	0	3	0	3	0	0	0	0	11	0	11	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, 2007-08 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2008. (This table was prepared June 2009.)