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: 2014-15

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)1	Degree-granting (2-year and 4-year)	Public	Non- profit	For- profit		Males	Females	Non-degree-granting (less-than-2-year)1	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	485,304	221,688	263,616	105,215	380,089	363,055	17,334	104,915	475,863	172,978	302,885	175,907	299,956	239,840	28,748	207,275
Agriculture and natural resources	3,534	2,295	1,239	76	3,458	3,417	11	106	2,457	1,588	869	167	2,290	2,251	126	80
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences        related sciences	2,736	1,742	994	76	2,660	2,676	0	60	2,308	1,477	831	167	2,141	2,102	126	80
Natural resources and conservation	798	553	245	0	798	741	11	46	149	111	38	0	149	149	0	0
Architecture and related services	199	119	80	0	199	154	42	3	95	71	24	1	94	72	23	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	435	106	329	0	435	411	24	0	164	43	121	0	164	136	28	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	565	136	429	16	549	511	38	16	239	89	150	126	113	144	63	32
Business, management, marketing, and support services	57,684	20,194	37,490	2,309	55,375	53,445	952	3,287	24,799	7,182	17,617	3,803	20,996	20,380	1,107	3,312
Accounting and related services	11,419	3,588	7,831	551	10,868	10,442	86	891	5,692	1,415	4,277	647	5,045	4,824	442	426
Business/commerce, general	2,283	926	1,357	0	2,283	2,252	1	30	1,629	823	806	0	1,629	1,575	8	46
Business administration, management, and operations	14,600	5,806	8,794	43	14,557	14,232	137	231	4,049	1,418	2,631	78	3,971	3,929	23	97
Management information systems and services	575	380	195	36	539	414	109	52	256	156	100	59	197	195	0	61
Business operations support and assistant services	10,898	2,734	8,164	1,138	9,760	9,551	38	1,309	7,440	1,263	6,177	2,321	5,119	5,204	356	1,880
Business and management, other	17,909	6,760	11,149	541	17,368	16,554	581	774	5,733	2,107	3,626	698	5,035	4,653	278	802
Communication, journalism, and related programs	1,856	902	954	264	1,592	1,292	74	490	1,936	1,070	866	1,336	600	523	139	1,274
Communications technologies	2,553	1,596	957	498	2,055	2,086	21	446	3,263	2,498	765	1,756	1,507	1,404	19	1,840
Computer and information sciences and support services	24,348	17,303	7,045	2,088	22,260	21,749	253	2,346	10,297	7,831	2,466	2,127	8,170	7,856	325	2,116
Construction trades	12,692	12,016	676	2,665	10,027	11,246	472	974	11,663	11,161	502	3,760	7,903	8,167	884	2,612
Education	6,605	621	5,984	39	6,566	6,017	166	422	3,821	440	3,381	295	3,526	2,720	728	373
Engineering	718	620	98	240	478	518	0	200	346	292	54	73	273	319	26	1
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields2	18,746	16,231	2,515	2,367	16,379	16,567	198	1,981	13,411	12,029	1,382	2,402	11,009	9,572	837	3,002
English language and literature/letters	1,060	351	709	169	891	706	353	1	975	340	635	432	543	103	59	813
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	15,875	1,193	14,682	769	15,106	15,730	64	81	3,641	297	3,344	299	3,342	3,569	68	4
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,285	237	1,048	0	1,285	1,134	151	0	676	117	559	1	675	673	3	0
Health professions and related programs	161,193	31,240	129,953	43,312	117,881	101,454	9,843	49,896	177,386	24,256	153,130	60,877	116,509	69,294	16,698	91,394
Dental assisting	7,567	610	6,957	2,570	4,997	1,575	497	5,495	14,097	1,232	12,865	4,734	9,363	4,554	1,084	8,459
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)       paramedic)	16,483	10,751	5,732	995	15,488	15,876	57	550	5,318	3,981	1,337	432	4,886	4,986	190	142
Clinical/medical lab science	9,536	1,328	8,208	2,373	7,163	6,681	193	2,662	2,545	717	1,828	653	1,892	676	777	1,092
Medical assisting	14,806	1,309	13,497	6,235	8,571	3,032	994	10,780	53,128	4,570	48,558	21,088	32,040	6,576	5,882	40,670
Pharmacy assisting	4,798	1,108	3,690	1,900	2,898	2,042	614	2,142	6,897	1,386	5,511	1,881	5,016	1,958	839	4,100
Other allied health assisting	7,046	2,334	4,712	1,637	5,409	4,702	239	2,105	2,508	378	2,130	812	1,696	1,042	164	1,302
Nursing and patient care assistant	43,980	5,543	38,437	10,792	33,188	37,226	745	6,009	1,502	210	1,292	521	981	454	254	794
Practical nursing	5,853	681	5,172	1,201	4,652	4,782	81	990	46,256	4,996	41,260	15,119	31,137	31,301	1,368	13,587
Nursing, registered nurse and other	1,441	165	1,276	0	1,441	1,392	49	0	3,229	451	2,778	1,892	1,337	1,128	1,855	246
Health sciences, other	49,683	7,411	42,272	15,609	34,074	24,146	6,374	19,163	41,906	6,335	35,571	13,745	28,161	16,619	4,285	21,002
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	28,880	21,314	7,566	2,761	26,119	28,070	452	358	7,910	5,145	2,765	535	7,375	7,050	259	601
Criminal justice and corrections	20,555	13,947	6,608	1,195	19,360	20,023	407	125	6,539	3,964	2,575	530	6,009	5,872	66	601
Fire control and safety	7,606	6,911	695	1,394	6,212	7,594	3	9	1,086	1,013	73	5	1,081	1,086	0	0
Homeland security and related protective services, other	719	456	263	172	547	453	42	224	285	168	117	0	285	92	193	0
Legal professions and studies	1,868	319	1,549	41	1,827	1,216	283	369	3,272	553	2,719	511	2,761	2,533	213	526
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities       and humanities	3,604	1,360	2,244	0	3,604	3,602	1	1	41,335	16,418	24,917	0	41,335	41,278	57	0
Library science	217	40	177	0	217	217	0	0	54	6	48	0	54	54	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	135	108	27	0	135	122	13	0	16	7	9	0	16	15	1	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	35,672	33,526	2,146	4,484	31,188	32,792	570	2,310	47,386	45,413	1,973	21,395	25,991	21,716	3,110	22,560
Military technologies and applied sciences	28	24	4	0	28	4	0	24	29	23	6	0	29	29	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	1,832	741	1,091	1	1,831	1,481	54	297	1,216	652	564	0	1,216	1,172	44	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies       studies	1,632	818	814	567	1,065	895	42	695	900	553	347	294	606	457	4	439
Personal and culinary services	38,955	5,328	33,627	27,842	11,113	10,728	311	27,916	86,852	12,249	74,603	69,610	17,242	14,419	1,125	71,308
Philosophy and religious studies	87	35	52	0	87	62	25	0	11	4	7	0	11	8	3	0
Physical sciences and science technologies	1,249	618	631	58	1,191	1,248	1	0	1,096	731	365	0	1,096	1,096	0	0
Physical sciences	140	88	52	0	140	139	1	0	21	17	4	0	21	21	0	0
Science technologies/technicians	1,109	530	579	58	1,051	1,109	0	0	1,075	714	361	0	1,075	1,075	0	0
Precision production	25,542	24,072	1,470	3,873	21,669	22,891	704	1,947	17,269	16,269	1,000	4,387	12,882	12,964	929	3,376
Psychology	77	22	55	0	77	74	3	0	82	14	68	0	82	76	6	0
Public administration and social services	1,459	288	1,171	12	1,447	1,276	67	116	1,012	179	833	0	1,012	868	95	49
Social sciences and history	1,126	638	488	2	1,124	1,035	91	0	316	176	140	0	316	307	9	0
Social sciences	1,088	626	462	2	1,086	997	91	0	307	171	136	0	307	298	9	0
History	38	12	26	0	38	38	0	0	9	5	4	0	9	9	0	0
Theology and religious vocations	313	154	159	0	313	1	312	0	948	407	541	467	481	0	948	0
Transportation and materials moving	26,391	24,061	2,330	9,619	16,772	15,541	869	9,981	1,072	994	78	286	786	703	21	348
Visual and performing arts	6,889	3,062	3,827	1,143	5,746	5,363	874	652	9,918	3,881	6,037	967	8,951	7,912	791	1,215
Fine and studio arts	960	365	595	809	151	119	682	159	5,455	1,923	3,532	9	5,446	5,419	34	2
Music and dance	290	183	107	0	290	236	0	54	447	299	148	71	376	124	179	144
Visual and performing arts, other3	5,639	2,514	3,125	334	5,305	5,008	192	439	4,016	1,659	2,357	887	3,129	2,369	578	1,069

1 Non-degree-granting institutions do not offer accredited 4-year or 2-year programs for degrees at the associate’s or higher level, but they may include institutions offering programs 2 years or longer in duration for lower level awards.

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

3 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 2015, Completions component. (This table was prepared March 2017.)