Table 284.

Certificates below the associate's degree level conferred by degree-granting and non-degree-granting institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, institution level and control, and discipline division: 2009-10

Discipline division	Less-than-1-year awards					1- to less-than-4-year awards
	Total	Sex		Institution level		Total	Sex		Institution level		Institution control
		Males	Females	Non-degree-granting (less-than-2-year)	Degree-granting (2-year and 4-year)		Males	Females	Non-degree-granting (less-than-2-year)	Degree-granting (2-year and 4-year)	Public	Not- for- profit	For- profit
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Total	503,325	201,126	302,199	154,589	348,736	432,464	154,254	278,210	192,283	240,181	190,028	19,040	223,396
Agriculture and natural resources, total	3,373	2,324	1,049	218	3,155	2,189	1,406	783	279	1,910	2,046	76	67
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences      related sciences	2,769	1,823	946	217	2,552	2,085	1,327	758	278	1,807	1,959	59	67
Natural resources and conservation	604	501	103	1	603	104	79	25	1	103	87	17	0
Architecture and related services	240	125	115	12	228	118	60	58	12	106	113	3	2
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	467	138	329	0	467	101	33	68	0	101	97	4	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	245	68	177	138	107	95	26	69	75	20	30	0	65
Business, management, marketing, and support services	39,464	12,368	27,096	7,229	32,235	20,425	5,409	15,016	4,387	16,038	16,356	1,733	2,336
Accounting and related services	7,582	1,699	5,883	1,045	6,537	5,069	1,173	3,896	1,005	4,064	3,902	536	631
Business/commerce, general	1,095	522	573	32	1,063	1,241	639	602	21	1,220	1,184	1	56
Business administration, management, and operations	5,920	2,365	3,555	197	5,723	2,921	1,123	1,798	175	2,746	2,349	367	205
Management information systems and services	956	580	376	206	750	636	309	327	251	385	533	1	102
Business operations support and assistant services	11,971	2,531	9,440	2,776	9,195	7,010	822	6,188	2,339	4,671	5,526	587	897
Business and management, other	11,940	4,671	7,269	2,973	8,967	3,548	1,343	2,205	596	2,952	2,862	241	445
Communication, journalism, and related programs	1,952	1,118	834	1,347	605	608	363	245	209	399	291	91	226
Communications technologies	1,904	1,314	590	802	1,102	2,928	2,252	676	1,857	1,071	1,300	66	1,562
Computer and information sciences and support services	15,866	10,778	5,088	3,191	12,675	8,725	6,320	2,405	2,961	5,764	5,162	311	3,252
Construction trades	13,613	12,985	628	3,673	9,940	14,171	13,550	621	4,771	9,400	8,978	892	4,301
Education	6,019	1,055	4,964	1,390	4,629	3,424	446	2,978	686	2,738	1,821	870	733
Engineering	371	306	65	21	350	154	136	18	44	110	78	60	16
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields	15,305	13,153	2,152	2,660	12,645	13,398	12,221	1,177	4,344	9,054	6,866	174	6,358
English language and literature/letters	1,577	582	995	513	1,064	344	126	218	168	176	53	67	224
Family and consumer sciences	11,388	1,557	9,831	1,190	10,198	3,145	285	2,860	385	2,760	3,082	19	44
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,049	249	800	41	1,008	449	69	380	0	449	430	19	0
Health professions and related programs	249,259	47,534	201,725	84,461	164,798	182,604	25,828	156,776	69,314	113,290	73,210	10,102	99,292
Dental assisting	12,504	1,419	11,085	4,680	7,824	10,434	767	9,667	3,028	7,406	4,339	82	6,013
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)      paramedic)	17,188	11,830	5,358	1,871	15,317	4,131	3,242	889	322	3,809	3,967	118	46
Medical lab technician	15,354	4,054	11,300	2,868	12,486	3,875	1,196	2,679	936	2,939	2,571	466	838
Medical assisting	82,303	12,758	69,545	31,931	50,372	54,642	5,804	48,838	24,739	29,903	7,544	1,774	45,324
Nursing assisting	45,950	6,661	39,289	10,968	34,982	1,330	133	1,197	804	526	424	44	862
Practical nursing	6,807	875	5,932	546	6,261	55,742	6,666	49,076	19,401	36,341	39,245	2,265	14,232
Nursing, R.N. and other	1,745	169	1,576	0	1,745	5,518	701	4,817	3,302	2,216	1,971	2,890	657
Health sciences, other	67,408	9,768	57,640	31,597	35,811	46,932	7,319	39,613	16,782	30,150	13,149	2,463	31,320
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	24,276	19,165	5,111	3,452	20,824	6,018	4,255	1,763	578	5,440	5,571	91	356
Criminal justice and corrections	16,362	11,856	4,506	1,395	14,967	4,816	3,163	1,653	391	4,425	4,441	19	356
Fire control and safety	7,111	6,738	373	1,627	5,484	1,096	1,040	56	187	909	1,096	0	0
Homeland security and related protective services, other	803	571	232	430	373	106	52	54	0	106	34	72	0
Legal professions and studies	1,961	305	1,656	204	1,757	3,255	484	2,771	763	2,492	1,917	192	1,146
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities    and humanities	2,314	787	1,527	0	2,314	14,089	5,551	8,538	18	14,071	14,052	37	0
Library science	230	29	201	0	230	54	6	48	0	54	54	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	34	29	5	0	34	2	2	0	0	2	1	1	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	30,263	28,715	1,548	6,515	23,748	47,933	46,209	1,724	24,302	23,631	18,974	641	28,318
Military technologies and applied sciences	29	24	5	0	29	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	1,161	585	576	34	1,127	1,151	464	687	0	1,151	1,112	39	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies       studies	548	295	253	115	433	530	302	228	155	375	207	0	323
Personal and culinary services	33,986	6,674	27,312	24,443	9,543	81,956	10,609	71,347	69,496	12,460	12,040	633	69,283
Philosophy and religious studies	64	27	37	0	64	25	11	14	0	25	0	25	0
Physical sciences and science technologies	278	180	98	9	269	682	454	228	155	527	496	0	186
Physical sciences	15	9	6	0	15	41	20	21	0	41	41	0	0
Science technologies/technicians	263	171	92	9	254	641	434	207	155	486	455	0	186
Precision production	16,202	15,473	729	2,320	13,882	12,915	12,318	597	4,726	8,189	8,929	839	3,147
Psychology	88	16	72	21	67	48	11	37	0	48	46	2	0
Public administration and social service professions	1,054	185	869	15	1,039	553	117	436	0	553	542	11	0
Social sciences and history	487	269	218	0	487	227	131	96	0	227	201	26	0
Social sciences	470	264	206	0	470	227	131	96	0	227	201	26	0
History	17	5	12	0	17	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Theology and religious vocations	196	86	110	0	196	1,057	479	578	659	398	0	1,057	0
Transportation and materials moving	22,015	20,264	1,751	7,765	14,250	1,213	1,120	93	738	475	685	28	500
Visual and performing arts	6,047	2,364	3,683	2,810	3,237	7,878	3,201	4,677	1,201	6,677	5,288	931	1,659
Fine and studio arts	2,610	830	1,780	2,458	152	3,378	1,305	2,073	2	3,376	3,345	30	3
Music and dance	537	392	145	102	435	484	343	141	99	385	127	167	190
Visual and performing arts, other	2,900	1,142	1,758	250	2,650	4,016	1,553	2,463	1,100	2,916	1,816	734	1,466

NOTE: Includes both degree-granting and non-degree-granting institutions that participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Degree-granting institutions grant degrees at the associate's or higher level, while non-degree-granting institutions grant only awards below that level.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010, Completions component. (This table was prepared August 2011.)