Table 320.12.

Certificates below the associate's degree level conferred by public less-than-2-year postsecondary institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, and discipline division: 2014-15

Discipline division	Total, all certificates	Less-than-1-year certificates			1- to less-than-4-year certificates
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Total	30,936	13,921	7,625	6,296	17,015	5,821	11,194
Agriculture and natural resources	91	35	34	1	56	34	22
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences        related sciences	91	35	34	1	56	34	22
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Architecture and related services	1	0	0	0	1	1	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	70	0	0	0	70	26	44
Business, management, marketing, and support services	1,054	519	130	389	535	132	403
Accounting and related services	192	51	10	41	141	34	107
Business/commerce, general	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Business administration, management, and operations	100	27	4	23	73	23	50
Management information systems and services	61	17	2	15	44	14	30
Business operations support and assistant services	410	252	27	225	158	22	136
Business and management, other	291	172	87	85	119	39	80
Communication, journalism, and related programs	44	18	4	14	26	17	9
Communications technologies	211	101	60	41	110	74	36
Computer and information sciences and support services	652	238	206	32	414	332	82
Construction trades	1,895	1,181	1,138	43	714	679	35
Education	27	0	0	0	27	0	27
Engineering	50	0	0	0	50	37	13
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	1,074	678	652	26	396	354	42
English language and literature/letters	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	227	117	11	106	110	12	98
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health professions and related programs	15,666	5,927	1,170	4,757	9,739	1,102	8,637
Dental assisting	605	210	8	202	395	22	373
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)	737	516	350	166	221	171	50
Clinical/medical lab science	332	332	32	300	0	0	0
Medical assisting	1,048	397	34	363	651	46	605
Pharmacy assisting	367	273	83	190	94	24	70
Other allied health assisting	730	481	225	256	249	27	222
Nursing and patient care assistant	2,825	2,605	317	2,288	220	22	198
Practical nursing	7,318	198	20	178	7,120	675	6,445
Nursing, registered nurse and other	31	0	0	0	31	5	26
Health sciences, other	1,673	915	101	814	758	110	648
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	1,514	1,477	1,268	209	37	22	15
Criminal justice and corrections	639	604	504	100	35	20	15
Fire control and safety	805	803	722	81	2	2	0
Homeland security and related protective services, other	70	70	42	28	0	0	0
Legal professions and studies	39	17	0	17	22	3	19
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities       and humanities	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Library science	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	2,932	1,284	1,190	94	1,648	1,579	69
Military technologies and applied sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies       studies	1	0	0	0	1	0	1
Personal and culinary services	2,486	534	110	424	1,952	366	1,586
Philosophy and religious studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences and science technologies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Science technologies/technicians	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Precision production	1,811	768	730	38	1,043	1,008	35
Psychology	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Public administration and social services	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Social sciences and history	2	2	1	1	0	0	0
Social sciences	2	2	1	1	0	0	0
History	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Theology and religious vocations	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Transportation and materials moving	980	950	886	64	30	28	2
Visual and performing arts	109	75	35	40	34	15	19
Fine and studio arts	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Music and dance	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Visual and performing arts, other2	109	75	35	40	34	15	19

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 less-than-2-year 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 2015, Completions component. (This table was prepared July 2017.)