Table 321.10.

Associate's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by sex of student and discipline division: 2001-02 through 2011-12

Discipline division	2001-02	2002-03	2003-04	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12
											Total	Males	Females
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Total	595,133	634,016	665,301	696,660	713,066	728,114	750,164	787,325	849,452	942,327	1,017,538	391,990	625,548
Agriculture and natural resources	6,494	6,210	6,283	6,404	6,168	5,838	5,738	5,724	5,894	6,425	7,066	4,606	2,460
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and     related sciences	5,125	4,892	4,959	5,137	4,958	4,638	4,554	4,525	4,615	4,920	5,398	3,356	2,042
Natural resources and conservation	1,369	1,318	1,324	1,267	1,210	1,200	1,184	1,199	1,279	1,505	1,668	1,250	418
Architecture and related services	443	440	492	583	656	517	568	596	552	569	593	332	261
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	94	120	105	115	124	164	169	173	199	209	194	62	132
Biological and biomedical sciences	1,534	1,496	1,456	1,709	1,827	2,060	2,200	2,364	2,664	3,245	3,834	1,280	2,554
Business, management, marketing, and support services	86,713	89,627	92,065	96,067	96,933	99,998	104,566	111,521	116,904	121,728	121,972	42,916	79,056
Accounting and related services	12,315	13,229	14,506	13,988	13,620	14,232	15,965	16,731	17,994	20,179	20,142	5,023	15,119
Business/commerce, general	12,936	13,054	13,387	12,050	13,297	12,725	12,473	13,067	14,547	15,083	17,303	7,157	10,146
Business administration, management, and operations	26,890	28,943	31,522	37,258	39,152	43,667	47,911	52,938	46,137	46,249	45,248	18,629	26,619
Management information systems and services	6,417	5,600	4,214	2,812	2,179	2,007	1,237	1,103	1,221	1,244	1,017	671	346
Business operations support and assistant services	11,508	11,524	11,400	11,196	10,044	8,864	7,841	7,549	7,388	8,257	8,950	877	8,073
Business and management, other	16,647	17,277	17,036	18,763	18,641	18,503	19,139	20,133	29,617	30,716	29,312	10,559	18,753
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,819	2,589	2,444	2,545	2,629	2,609	2,620	2,722	2,839	3,051	3,495	1,625	1,870
Communications technologies	3,006	3,304	3,401	3,516	3,380	3,095	4,237	4,803	4,419	4,209	5,000	3,429	1,571
Computer and information sciences and support services	40,127	46,234	41,845	36,173	31,246	27,712	28,296	30,006	32,466	37,677	41,161	32,290	8,871
Construction trades	2,639	3,009	3,560	3,512	3,850	3,895	4,309	4,252	4,617	5,402	5,752	5,483	269
Education	9,611	11,205	12,465	13,329	14,475	13,021	13,108	14,123	17,048	20,459	20,531	2,633	17,898
Engineering	1,681	2,166	2,726	2,430	2,154	2,128	2,279	2,177	2,508	2,825	3,382	2,931	451
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	40,217	39,998	36,915	33,548	30,461	29,199	29,334	30,434	31,850	35,521	36,510	32,224	4,286
English language and literature/letters	864	896	828	995	1,105	1,249	1,402	1,525	1,658	2,019	2,137	708	1,429
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	9,208	9,496	9,478	9,707	9,488	9,124	8,613	9,020	9,573	8,532	9,503	369	9,134
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,085	1,050	1,047	1,234	1,161	1,207	1,258	1,627	1,683	1,876	1,980	417	1,563
Health professions and related programs	82,361	90,716	106,208	122,520	134,931	145,436	155,816	165,163	177,686	201,831	218,041	34,018	184,023
Dental assisting	5,237	5,498	5,652	5,813	6,085	6,313	6,642	6,633	7,063	7,481	7,790	359	7,431
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)	1,203	1,410	1,617	1,825	1,980	2,008	2,140	2,270	2,412	2,895	3,352	2,366	986
Medical lab technician	5,134	5,146	5,571	6,346	6,411	7,171	6,617	6,822	7,798	9,334	10,949	2,451	8,498
Medical assisting	11,102	11,920	15,543	19,005	22,267	23,491	24,276	25,981	29,985	39,232	46,598	6,252	40,346
Nursing assisting	0	8	4	38	101	158	329	385	1	38	36	4	32
Practical nursing	814	916	1,049	1,388	1,481	1,509	1,417	1,299	1,999	2,069	2,081	220	1,861
Nursing, registered nurse and other	40,800	45,117	51,552	58,007	62,095	66,516	73,277	77,929	81,277	83,021	84,379	11,974	72,405
Health sciences, other	18,071	20,701	25,220	30,098	34,511	38,270	41,118	43,844	47,151	57,761	62,856	10,392	52,464
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	16,689	18,614	20,573	23,749	26,425	28,208	29,590	33,033	37,260	44,923	50,695	27,045	23,650
Criminal justice and corrections	13,603	15,155	17,040	19,942	22,351	23,917	25,588	28,996	32,754	40,023	45,525	22,352	23,173
Fire control and safety	2,619	2,941	3,012	3,366	3,554	3,811	3,937	3,970	4,307	4,603	4,602	4,300	302
Homeland security and related protective     services, other	467	518	521	441	520	480	65	67	199	297	568	393	175
Legal professions and studies	7,815	8,412	9,466	9,885	10,509	10,391	9,465	9,062	10,003	11,620	12,182	1,679	10,503
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,    and humanities	207,163	217,361	227,650	240,131	244,689	250,030	254,012	263,853	284,775	306,670	336,554	129,179	207,375
Library science	96	87	114	108	136	84	117	116	112	160	159	19	140
Mathematics and statistics	685	732	801	807	753	827	855	930	1,051	1,644	1,529	1,050	479
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	12,063	12,028	12,553	13,619	14,454	15,432	15,297	16,066	16,305	19,969	20,714	19,709	1,005
Military technologies and applied sciences	62	85	293	355	610	781	851	721	668	856	986	770	216
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	13,205	14,067	14,794	13,888	14,473	15,838	16,255	15,459	17,671	23,729	27,267	10,171	17,096
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	764	805	923	966	1,128	1,251	1,344	1,587	2,016	2,366	3,123	1,998	1,125
Personal and culinary services	9,325	12,607	14,239	16,311	17,162	16,103	16,592	16,327	16,467	18,258	20,366	9,103	11,263
Philosophy and religious studies	359	379	404	422	367	375	458	191	256	283	308	181	127
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,318	2,201	2,687	2,825	2,910	3,412	3,395	3,621	4,140	5,078	5,824	3,404	2,420
Physical sciences	1,356	1,152	1,599	1,637	1,741	2,023	1,980	2,194	2,378	3,148	3,652	2,072	1,580
Science technologies/technicians	962	1,049	1,088	1,188	1,169	1,389	1,415	1,427	1,762	1,930	2,172	1,332	840
Precision production	2,260	2,287	1,968	2,039	1,977	1,973	1,968	2,126	2,787	3,254	3,320	3,118	202
Psychology	1,705	1,785	1,887	1,942	1,944	2,213	2,412	3,949	6,582	3,866	4,717	1,093	3,624
Public administration and social services	3,323	3,534	3,728	4,027	4,415	4,338	4,192	4,178	4,526	7,472	9,143	1,382	7,761
Social sciences and history	5,593	5,720	6,245	6,533	6,730	7,080	7,812	9,142	10,649	12,767	14,132	5,139	8,993
Social sciences	5,304	5,404	5,875	6,233	6,308	6,673	7,358	8,657	10,108	12,067	13,321	4,650	8,671
History	289	316	370	300	422	407	454	485	541	700	811	489	322
Theology and religious vocations	414	425	492	581	570	608	582	675	613	758	839	423	416
Transportation and materials moving	1,122	1,211	1,217	1,435	1,472	1,674	1,550	1,430	1,444	1,697	2,098	1,782	316
Visual and performing arts	20,911	23,120	23,949	22,650	21,754	20,244	18,890	18,629	19,567	21,379	22,431	9,422	13,009
Fine and studio arts	1,518	1,760	1,450	1,614	1,638	1,753	1,705	2,015	2,277	2,405	2,341	746	1,595
Music and dance	1,637	2,093	2,584	2,333	2,389	2,290	1,317	1,151	1,335	1,356	1,683	1,084	599
Visual and performing arts, other2	17,756	19,267	19,915	18,703	17,727	16,201	15,868	15,463	15,955	17,618	18,407	7,592	10,815
Not classified by field of study	365	0	0	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians," which are listed separately.

2 Includes design and applied arts, drama and theatre arts, film and photographic arts, and all other arts not included under "Fine and studio arts" or "Music and dance."

NOTE: Data are for postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV federal financial aid programs.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2002 through Fall 2012, Completions component. (This table was prepared July 2013.)