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: 2013-14

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	479,574	213,414	266,160	118,214	361,360	343,129	13,390	123,055	489,779	177,380	312,399	186,021	303,758	233,129	17,340	239,310
Agriculture and natural resources	3,322	2,095	1,227	90	3,232	3,143	17	162	2,330	1,463	867	178	2,152	2,111	121	98
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences       related sciences	2,711	1,701	1,010	90	2,621	2,576	0	135	2,207	1,370	837	176	2,031	1,990	119	98
Natural resources and conservation	611	394	217	0	611	567	17	27	123	93	30	2	121	121	2	0
Architecture and related services	243	148	95	0	243	193	49	1	109	71	38	0	109	72	37	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	442	116	326	0	442	422	20	0	151	32	119	0	151	147	4	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	732	202	530	25	707	711	5	16	194	67	127	83	111	117	54	23
Business, management, marketing, and support services	50,889	17,407	33,482	3,401	47,488	45,929	983	3,977	24,198	6,680	17,518	3,154	21,044	20,293	1,198	2,707
Accounting and related services	9,905	2,995	6,910	601	9,304	8,844	75	986	5,597	1,315	4,282	616	4,981	4,837	436	324
Business/commerce, general	2,133	906	1,227	0	2,133	2,086	39	8	1,639	838	801	0	1,639	1,477	7	155
Business administration, management, and operations	10,969	4,295	6,674	17	10,952	10,473	116	380	4,127	1,491	2,636	45	4,082	3,690	47	390
Management information systems and services	949	558	391	274	675	490	62	397	250	132	118	79	171	234	0	16
Business operations support and assistant services	11,499	2,948	8,551	1,691	9,808	10,004	103	1,392	7,771	1,208	6,563	1,908	5,863	6,076	364	1,331
Business and management, other	15,434	5,705	9,729	818	14,616	14,032	588	814	4,814	1,696	3,118	506	4,308	3,979	344	491
Communication, journalism, and related programs	1,993	963	1,030	237	1,756	1,731	106	156	1,860	1,109	751	1,292	568	460	139	1,261
Communications technologies	2,353	1,433	920	465	1,888	1,897	28	428	3,201	2,514	687	1,793	1,408	1,381	15	1,805
Computer and information sciences and support services	23,485	16,647	6,838	2,514	20,971	20,337	240	2,908	10,250	7,719	2,531	2,206	8,044	7,426	236	2,588
Construction trades	12,568	11,916	652	3,355	9,213	10,951	629	988	12,968	12,457	511	3,857	9,111	8,323	530	4,115
Education	5,929	803	5,126	71	5,858	4,754	751	424	3,652	423	3,229	377	3,275	2,480	857	315
Engineering	595	497	98	235	360	486	0	109	329	268	61	39	290	269	50	10
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	18,129	15,776	2,353	2,460	15,669	15,710	221	2,198	14,207	12,916	1,291	2,469	11,738	9,012	322	4,873
English language and literature/letters	1,006	324	682	187	819	622	370	14	1,115	390	725	775	340	134	92	889
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	14,143	1,240	12,903	1,073	13,070	13,986	51	106	3,734	271	3,463	310	3,424	3,664	47	23
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,197	256	941	0	1,197	1,041	149	7	598	97	501	1	597	543	55	0
Health professions and related programs	177,063	34,359	142,704	55,211	121,852	102,894	5,330	68,839	183,142	25,921	157,221	60,856	122,286	70,464	8,342	104,336
Dental assisting	8,101	772	7,329	3,232	4,869	1,519	251	6,331	14,113	1,307	12,806	4,222	9,891	4,517	59	9,537
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)	16,457	10,914	5,543	1,122	15,335	15,891	92	474	5,198	3,927	1,271	481	4,717	4,640	265	293
Clinical/medical lab science	9,471	1,392	8,079	2,372	7,099	6,549	182	2,740	2,326	611	1,715	596	1,730	692	666	968
Medical assisting	21,387	2,102	19,285	11,072	10,315	2,682	1,523	17,182	51,708	4,714	46,994	19,774	31,934	6,347	1,625	43,736
Pharmacy assisting	6,473	1,567	4,906	2,967	3,506	2,157	654	3,662	7,788	1,740	6,048	1,676	6,112	1,970	89	5,729
Other allied health assisting	7,470	2,349	5,121	1,841	5,629	4,741	55	2,674	3,297	418	2,879	1,442	1,855	947	221	2,129
Nursing and patient care assistant	46,534	5,911	40,623	11,261	35,273	38,335	754	7,445	982	102	880	317	665	418	0	564
Practical nursing	6,257	682	5,575	852	5,405	5,542	79	636	49,825	5,643	44,182	16,353	33,472	33,836	1,355	14,634
Nursing, registered nurse and other	1,599	198	1,401	0	1,599	1,476	123	0	3,402	473	2,929	2,167	1,235	1,038	2,037	327
Health sciences, other	53,314	8,472	44,842	20,492	32,822	24,002	1,617	27,695	44,503	6,986	37,517	13,828	30,675	16,059	2,025	26,419
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	27,237	20,160	7,077	3,001	24,236	26,360	429	448	7,159	4,661	2,498	162	6,997	6,514	167	478
Criminal justice and corrections	20,464	14,115	6,349	1,441	19,023	19,911	366	187	5,778	3,470	2,308	152	5,626	5,250	54	474
Fire control and safety	6,096	5,612	484	1,438	4,658	6,073	7	16	1,213	1,112	101	10	1,203	1,213	0	0
Homeland security and related protective services, other	677	433	244	122	555	376	56	245	168	79	89	0	168	51	113	4
Legal professions and studies	2,006	350	1,656	165	1,841	1,228	234	544	3,444	598	2,846	561	2,883	2,642	286	516
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities       and humanities	3,224	1,239	1,985	0	3,224	3,214	10	0	36,266	14,316	21,950	0	36,266	36,193	73	0
Library science	224	31	193	0	224	224	0	0	60	10	50	0	60	60	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	166	124	42	0	166	146	20	0	17	14	3	0	17	12	5	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	32,423	30,565	1,858	3,788	28,635	30,143	559	1,721	50,338	48,443	1,895	22,413	27,925	22,360	973	27,005
Military technologies and applied sciences	25	20	5	0	25	9	0	16	36	25	11	0	36	36	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	1,525	647	878	5	1,520	1,152	55	318	1,203	627	576	0	1,203	1,168	34	1
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies       studies	2,400	1,121	1,279	687	1,713	1,572	34	794	650	357	293	97	553	431	5	214
Personal and culinary services	38,157	5,545	32,612	27,158	10,999	10,065	276	27,816	98,125	14,332	83,793	78,804	19,321	13,967	1,168	82,990
Philosophy and religious studies	59	27	32	0	59	43	16	0	11	2	9	0	11	5	6	0
Physical sciences and science technologies	886	618	268	73	813	881	5	0	998	671	327	0	998	998	0	0
Physical sciences	197	126	71	0	197	192	5	0	17	13	4	0	17	17	0	0
Science technologies/technicians	689	492	197	73	616	689	0	0	981	658	323	0	981	981	0	0
Precision production	21,616	20,501	1,115	3,421	18,195	19,280	700	1,636	15,900	15,096	804	4,703	11,197	11,740	867	3,293
Psychology	209	35	174	0	209	69	140	0	64	9	55	0	64	59	5	0
Public administration and social services	1,176	279	897	14	1,162	1,034	97	45	1,179	206	973	0	1,179	1,111	63	5
Social sciences and history	1,089	612	477	8	1,081	968	121	0	368	201	167	0	368	353	15	0
Social sciences	1,064	604	460	8	1,056	944	120	0	361	196	165	0	361	346	15	0
History	25	8	17	0	25	24	1	0	7	5	2	0	7	7	0	0
Theology and religious vocations	297	129	168	0	297	2	295	0	819	349	470	437	382	1	818	0
Transportation and materials moving	27,803	25,166	2,637	9,644	18,159	18,298	777	8,728	979	914	65	316	663	631	18	330
Visual and performing arts	4,963	2,063	2,900	926	4,037	3,634	673	656	10,125	4,151	5,974	1,138	8,987	7,952	738	1,435
Fine and studio arts	787	293	494	658	129	116	529	142	5,411	1,999	3,412	5	5,406	5,339	71	1
Music and dance	280	170	110	0	280	197	4	79	431	288	143	93	338	126	148	157
Visual and performing arts, other2	3,896	1,600	2,296	268	3,628	3,321	140	435	4,283	1,864	2,419	1,040	3,243	2,487	519	1,277

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 2014, Completions component. (This table was prepared April 2016.)