Table 321.12.

Certificates below the associate's degree level and associate's degrees conferred by public 2-year postsecondary institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, and discipline division: 2013-14

Discipline division	Total, all certificates below the associate's degree	Less-than-1-year certificates			1- to less-than-4-year certificates			Associate's degrees
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Total	482,728	283,230	144,731	138,499	199,498	88,100	111,398	653,071	257,568	395,503
Agriculture and natural resources	4,594	2,723	1,765	958	1,871	1,210	661	5,368	3,347	2,021
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences       related sciences	4,074	2,310	1,492	818	1,764	1,124	640	4,176	2,507	1,669
Natural resources and conservation	520	413	273	140	107	86	21	1,192	840	352
Architecture and related services	253	188	129	59	65	47	18	329	217	112
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	69	60	11	49	9	1	8	266	93	173
Biological and biomedical sciences	182	105	53	52	77	21	56	4,015	1,298	2,717
Business, management, marketing, and support services	50,902	33,044	10,974	22,070	17,858	4,637	13,221	70,918	27,607	43,311
Accounting and related services	10,825	6,501	1,876	4,625	4,324	903	3,421	10,993	3,259	7,734
Business/commerce, general	2,451	1,169	442	727	1,282	656	626	11,548	5,068	6,480
Business administration, management, and operations	10,797	7,322	2,702	4,620	3,475	1,220	2,255	31,984	14,545	17,439
Management information systems and services	584	436	333	103	148	85	63	766	507	259
Business operations support and assistant services	14,386	8,787	2,402	6,385	5,599	716	4,883	5,464	412	5,052
Business and management, other	11,859	8,829	3,219	5,610	3,030	1,057	1,973	10,163	3,816	6,347
Communication, journalism, and related programs	1,171	823	443	380	348	189	159	4,224	1,919	2,305
Communications technologies	2,904	1,647	887	760	1,257	818	439	2,980	1,849	1,131
Computer and information sciences and support services	23,047	16,950	12,041	4,909	6,097	4,518	1,579	18,308	14,584	3,724
Construction trades	16,004	8,822	8,334	488	7,182	6,887	295	3,456	3,249	207
Education	5,369	3,169	232	2,937	2,200	199	2,001	12,952	1,673	11,279
Engineering	489	297	235	62	192	176	16	3,908	3,388	520
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	20,461	12,542	10,854	1,688	7,919	7,025	894	18,205	15,831	2,374
English language and literature/letters	421	342	113	229	79	26	53	1,671	561	1,110
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	15,590	12,295	1,063	11,232	3,295	250	3,045	7,484	287	7,197
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,256	851	166	685	405	56	349	1,784	389	1,395
Health professions and related programs	141,094	86,613	18,315	68,298	54,481	8,268	46,213	107,838	18,145	89,693
Dental assisting	4,975	1,198	117	1,081	3,777	179	3,598	4,498	184	4,314
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)	15,712	12,212	7,957	4,255	3,500	2,647	853	2,612	1,797	815
Clinical/medical lab science	5,902	5,346	647	4,699	556	67	489	2,208	500	1,708
Medical assisting	7,575	2,282	231	2,051	5,293	262	5,031	11,562	1,790	9,772
Pharmacy assisting	3,490	1,838	389	1,449	1,652	274	1,378	0	0	0
Other allied health assisting	4,731	4,005	1,494	2,511	726	104	622	0	0	0
Nursing and patient care assistant	32,544	32,304	3,997	28,307	240	17	223	25	5	20
Practical nursing	29,775	5,343	584	4,759	24,432	2,602	21,830	1,232	125	1,107
Nursing, registered nurse and other	2,312	1,387	166	1,221	925	145	780	54,844	7,688	47,156
Health sciences, other	34,078	20,698	2,733	17,965	13,380	1,971	11,409	30,857	6,056	24,801
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	26,940	20,827	15,267	5,560	6,113	4,079	2,034	27,513	16,610	10,903
Criminal justice and corrections	20,831	15,904	10,772	5,132	4,927	3,009	1,918	23,712	13,126	10,586
Fire control and safety	5,841	4,704	4,361	343	1,137	1,041	96	3,532	3,292	240
Homeland security and related protective services, other	268	219	134	85	49	29	20	269	192	77
Legal professions and studies	3,566	1,142	186	956	2,424	434	1,990	5,273	856	4,417
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities       and humanities	38,451	3,077	1,179	1,898	35,374	13,942	21,432	259,563	98,559	161,004
Library science	279	224	31	193	55	9	46	186	28	158
Mathematics and statistics	124	114	76	38	10	10	0	2,085	1,462	623
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	46,878	27,636	25,987	1,649	19,242	18,317	925	11,513	10,842	671
Military technologies and applied sciences	45	9	6	3	36	25	11	977	803	174
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	1,443	455	180	275	988	555	433	23,519	9,985	13,534
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies       studies	1,722	1,454	590	864	268	119	149	2,574	1,390	1,184
Personal and culinary services	19,941	8,937	2,147	6,790	11,004	2,192	8,812	6,266	2,188	4,078
Philosophy and religious studies	2	2	2	0	0	0	0	164	114	50
Physical sciences and science technologies	1,660	727	504	223	933	632	301	5,579	3,390	2,189
Physical sciences	171	157	94	63	14	10	4	3,685	2,176	1,509
Science technologies/technicians	1,489	570	410	160	919	622	297	1,894	1,214	680
Precision production	27,356	17,152	16,264	888	10,204	9,660	544	2,893	2,725	168
Psychology	109	53	11	42	56	9	47	6,599	1,606	4,993
Public administration and social services	1,829	913	233	680	916	180	736	5,757	885	4,872
Social sciences and history	615	383	216	167	232	123	109	16,169	6,022	10,147
Social sciences	604	379	214	165	225	118	107	15,200	5,424	9,776
History	11	4	2	2	7	5	2	969	598	371
Theology and religious vocations	1	0	0	0	1	0	1	1	1	0
Transportation and materials moving	17,198	16,640	15,000	1,640	558	512	46	858	716	142
Visual and performing arts	10,763	3,014	1,237	1,777	7,749	2,974	4,775	11,876	4,949	6,927
Fine and studio arts	5,430	94	36	58	5,336	1,965	3,371	2,398	788	1,610
Music and dance	305	183	104	79	122	76	46	1,107	650	457
Visual and performing arts, other2	5,028	2,737	1,097	1,640	2,291	933	1,358	8,371	3,511	4,860

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 public 2-year institutions that participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs, including institutions that grant associate's degrees and those that 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 May 2016.)