Table 320.10.

Certificates below the associate's degree level conferred by postsecondary institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, institution level and control, and discipline division: 2012-13

Discipline division	Less-than-1-year certificates								1- to less-than-4-year certificates
	Total	Sex		Institution level		Institution control			Total	Sex		Institution level		Institution control
		Males	Females	Non-degree-granting (less-than-2-year)	Degree-granting (2-year and 4-year)	Public	Non- profit	For- profit		Males	Females	Non-degree-granting (less-than-2-year)	Degree-granting (2-year and 4-year)	Public	Non- profit	For- profit
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17
Total	452,202	196,007	256,195	112,633	339,569	321,286	13,665	117,251	513,882	179,339	334,543	203,448	310,434	223,595	17,017	273,270
Agriculture and natural resources	3,587	2,449	1,138	72	3,515	3,473	16	98	2,470	1,606	864	159	2,311	2,256	136	78
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences      related sciences	2,646	1,661	985	72	2,574	2,564	0	82	2,378	1,539	839	159	2,219	2,166	134	78
Natural resources and conservation	941	788	153	0	941	909	16	16	92	67	25	0	92	90	2	0
Architecture and related services	209	111	98	0	209	165	43	1	135	95	40	0	135	104	31	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	448	117	331	0	448	427	21	0	101	32	69	0	101	100	1	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	729	174	555	104	625	630	8	91	124	45	79	61	63	103	6	15
Business, management, marketing, and support services	47,248	15,162	32,086	3,832	43,416	42,284	1,059	3,905	24,621	6,712	17,909	3,490	21,131	20,492	1,271	2,858
Accounting and related services	8,754	2,356	6,398	612	8,142	7,742	100	912	6,123	1,479	4,644	771	5,352	5,105	516	502
Business/commerce, general	2,736	1,186	1,550	11	2,725	2,564	155	17	1,477	736	741	0	1,477	1,387	10	80
Business administration, management, and operations	8,932	3,283	5,649	55	8,877	8,595	206	131	3,906	1,415	2,491	117	3,789	3,594	42	270
Management information systems and services	712	384	328	352	360	295	51	366	362	191	171	135	227	336	0	26
Business operations support and assistant services	12,300	2,924	9,376	1,754	10,546	10,741	47	1,512	8,032	1,153	6,879	1,872	6,160	6,219	424	1,389
Business and management, other	13,814	5,029	8,785	1,048	12,766	12,347	500	967	4,721	1,738	2,983	595	4,126	3,851	279	591
Communication, journalism, and related programs	1,651	881	770	487	1,164	1,137	90	424	1,504	883	621	945	559	368	186	950
Communications technologies	2,261	1,360	901	594	1,667	1,819	39	403	3,321	2,570	751	1,783	1,538	1,414	27	1,880
Computer and information sciences and support services	17,981	12,401	5,580	1,854	16,127	15,515	208	2,258	10,495	8,031	2,464	2,076	8,419	6,884	202	3,409
Construction trades	10,984	10,447	537	2,685	8,299	9,770	747	467	13,308	12,753	555	4,054	9,254	8,301	588	4,419
Education	4,925	670	4,255	62	4,863	4,028	303	594	3,288	321	2,967	477	2,811	2,380	495	413
Engineering	573	470	103	197	376	568	0	5	160	142	18	26	134	136	22	2
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	16,472	14,125	2,347	2,093	14,379	14,351	173	1,948	12,760	11,584	1,176	2,365	10,395	7,936	344	4,480
English language and literature/letters	2,317	801	1,516	1,143	1,174	643	659	1,015	361	126	235	97	264	102	117	142
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	14,497	1,419	13,078	1,015	13,482	14,311	68	118	3,377	305	3,072	219	3,158	3,321	30	26
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	920	192	728	0	920	856	56	8	631	89	542	7	624	600	31	0
Health professions and related programs	171,122	33,147	137,975	49,492	121,630	102,351	5,947	62,824	209,347	29,891	179,456	74,442	134,905	72,622	8,523	128,202
Dental assisting	7,655	722	6,933	2,755	4,900	1,478	249	5,928	15,313	1,445	13,868	4,722	10,591	4,230	49	11,034
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)      paramedic)	15,854	10,294	5,560	1,296	14,558	15,627	54	173	5,477	4,169	1,308	416	5,061	4,763	250	464
Clinical/medical lab science	8,547	1,214	7,333	2,053	6,494	6,153	163	2,231	2,214	421	1,793	738	1,476	752	380	1,082
Medical assisting	18,549	1,794	16,755	7,842	10,707	2,590	2,053	13,906	64,684	6,254	58,430	25,980	38,704	6,626	1,721	56,337
Pharmacy assisting	7,003	1,588	5,415	2,398	4,605	2,198	672	4,133	9,187	2,173	7,014	2,497	6,690	2,072	70	7,045
Other allied health assisting	8,634	2,532	6,102	2,657	5,977	5,034	7	3,593	3,295	392	2,903	1,458	1,837	927	171	2,197
Nursing and patient care assistant	46,663	6,221	40,442	10,537	36,126	39,254	925	6,484	1,245	144	1,101	709	536	397	0	848
Practical nursing	5,878	643	5,235	702	5,176	5,368	45	465	53,082	6,250	46,832	17,771	35,311	35,469	1,672	15,941
Nursing, registered nurse and other	1,689	176	1,513	0	1,689	1,667	12	10	3,586	531	3,055	2,229	1,357	1,133	2,145	308
Health sciences, other	50,650	7,963	42,687	19,252	31,398	22,982	1,767	25,901	51,264	8,112	43,152	17,922	33,342	16,253	2,065	32,946
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	26,438	19,820	6,618	2,853	23,585	25,451	313	674	6,374	4,351	2,023	230	6,144	5,769	145	460
Criminal justice and corrections	19,222	13,353	5,869	1,181	18,041	18,773	255	194	5,159	3,253	1,906	214	4,945	4,667	37	455
Fire control and safety	6,354	5,886	468	1,441	4,913	6,333	8	13	1,051	987	64	16	1,035	1,051	0	0
Homeland security and related protective services, other	862	581	281	231	631	345	50	467	164	111	53	0	164	51	108	5
Legal professions and studies	1,976	349	1,627	81	1,895	1,368	100	508	3,341	575	2,766	549	2,792	2,584	195	562
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities    and humanities	3,355	1,214	2,141	0	3,355	3,351	4	0	30,821	12,208	18,613	0	30,821	30,749	64	8
Library science	212	27	185	0	212	212	0	0	71	5	66	0	71	68	3	0
Mathematics and statistics	62	52	10	0	62	40	22	0	10	6	4	0	10	7	3	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	31,741	29,792	1,949	4,161	27,580	28,866	612	2,263	52,407	50,381	2,026	23,074	29,333	21,915	807	29,685
Military technologies and applied sciences	21	16	5	0	21	2	0	19	4	4	0	0	4	4	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	1,622	803	819	24	1,598	1,265	47	310	1,125	539	586	0	1,125	1,100	25	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies    studies	2,135	921	1,214	475	1,660	1,580	26	529	723	396	327	224	499	362	6	355
Personal and culinary services	38,160	6,227	31,933	27,368	10,792	9,532	282	28,346	105,286	16,222	89,064	82,775	22,511	13,973	1,123	90,190
Philosophy and religious studies	73	38	35	0	73	48	25	0	20	11	9	0	20	2	18	0
Physical sciences and science technologies	855	608	247	166	689	760	9	86	666	495	171	0	666	665	0	1
Physical sciences	62	37	25	0	62	53	9	0	10	8	2	0	10	10	0	0
Science technologies/technicians	793	571	222	166	627	707	0	86	656	487	169	0	656	655	0	1
Precision production	17,721	16,795	926	2,900	14,821	15,872	781	1,068	13,748	13,037	711	4,121	9,627	10,140	723	2,885
Psychology	36	10	26	0	36	35	1	0	70	16	54	0	70	66	4	0
Public administration and social services	1,139	226	913	17	1,122	1,002	91	46	903	156	747	0	903	890	9	4
Social sciences and history	874	492	382	0	874	809	65	0	334	181	153	0	334	317	17	0
Social sciences	841	488	353	0	841	778	63	0	333	180	153	0	333	317	16	0
History	33	4	29	0	33	31	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	0	1	0
Theology and religious vocations	188	77	111	0	188	0	188	0	1,059	482	577	585	474	0	1,059	0
Transportation and materials moving	24,529	22,310	2,219	9,975	14,554	15,436	976	8,117	987	925	62	378	609	650	16	321
Visual and performing arts	5,141	2,304	2,837	983	4,158	3,329	686	1,126	9,930	4,164	5,766	1,311	8,619	7,215	790	1,925
Fine and studio arts	819	318	501	690	129	113	546	160	4,864	1,766	3,098	2	4,862	4,822	41	1
Music and dance	553	411	142	0	553	170	3	380	679	493	186	226	453	158	176	345
Visual and performing arts, other2	3,769	1,575	2,194	293	3,476	3,046	137	586	4,387	1,905	2,482	1,083	3,304	2,235	573	1,579

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. 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 2013, Completions component. (This table was prepared October 2014.)