Table 321.10.

Associate's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by sex of student and discipline division: 2004-05 through 2014-15

Discipline division	2004-05	2005-06	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15
											Total	Males	Females
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Total	696,660	713,066	728,114	750,164	787,243	848,856	943,506	1,021,718	1,007,427	1,005,155	1,013,971	396,613	617,358
Agriculture and natural resources	6,404	6,168	5,838	5,738	5,724	5,852	6,430	7,068	6,826	7,057	7,693	4,902	2,791
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and       related sciences	5,137	4,958	4,638	4,554	4,525	4,615	4,925	5,400	5,227	5,420	5,975	3,652	2,323
Natural resources and conservation	1,267	1,210	1,200	1,184	1,199	1,237	1,505	1,668	1,599	1,637	1,718	1,250	468
Architecture and related services	583	656	517	568	605	553	569	593	468	425	491	342	149
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	115	124	164	169	174	199	209	194	271	363	382	148	234
Biological and biomedical sciences	1,709	1,827	2,060	2,200	2,337	2,664	3,276	3,834	4,185	4,557	4,882	1,634	3,248
Business, management, marketing, and support services	96,067	96,933	99,998	104,566	111,524	116,798	121,735	123,014	114,842	113,056	113,670	43,117	70,553
Accounting and related services	13,988	13,620	14,232	15,965	16,707	17,925	20,180	20,270	18,061	17,400	16,080	4,439	11,641
Business/commerce, general	12,050	13,297	12,725	12,473	13,100	14,553	15,083	17,301	17,211	17,372	18,229	7,912	10,317
Business administration, management, and operations	37,258	39,152	43,667	47,911	52,938	46,086	46,253	45,879	49,816	50,121	52,666	23,089	29,577
Management information systems and services	2,812	2,179	2,007	1,237	1,103	1,221	1,244	1,164	1,085	1,176	987	672	315
Business operations support and assistant services	11,196	10,044	8,864	7,841	7,550	7,399	8,259	8,977	7,986	7,331	6,570	612	5,958
Business and management, other	18,763	18,641	18,503	19,139	20,126	29,614	30,716	29,423	20,683	19,656	19,138	6,393	12,745
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,545	2,629	2,609	2,620	2,722	2,841	3,051	3,495	4,299	4,970	6,034	2,576	3,458
Communications technologies	3,516	3,380	3,095	4,237	4,805	4,418	4,209	5,004	5,028	4,713	4,628	3,159	1,469
Computer and information sciences and support services	36,173	31,246	27,712	28,296	29,912	32,351	37,689	41,250	38,954	37,646	36,401	28,782	7,619
Construction trades	3,512	3,850	3,895	4,309	4,252	4,684	5,402	5,750	5,038	4,837	4,643	4,355	288
Education	13,329	14,475	13,021	13,108	14,123	17,346	20,460	20,762	18,744	17,605	17,175	1,948	15,227
Engineering	2,430	2,154	2,128	2,279	2,170	2,508	2,825	3,382	3,732	4,306	4,875	4,203	672
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	33,548	30,461	29,199	29,334	30,441	31,883	35,519	36,642	33,752	31,792	31,958	27,886	4,072
English language and literature/letters	995	1,105	1,249	1,402	1,534	1,658	2,019	2,137	2,089	2,082	2,324	802	1,522
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	9,707	9,488	9,124	8,613	9,035	9,515	8,532	9,506	8,996	8,669	8,752	405	8,347
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,234	1,161	1,207	1,258	1,630	1,683	1,888	1,980	2,131	2,284	2,102	505	1,597
Health professions and related programs	122,520	134,931	145,436	155,816	165,015	177,321	202,920	219,491	214,040	208,885	199,991	31,814	168,177
Dental assisting	5,813	6,085	6,313	6,642	6,574	7,063	7,498	7,790	7,823	7,988	7,762	366	7,396
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)	1,825	1,980	2,008	2,140	2,270	2,413	2,895	3,352	3,520	3,521	3,456	2,397	1,059
Clinical/medical lab science	2,055	2,163	2,306	2,316	2,538	2,621	2,811	3,240	3,387	3,517	3,143	781	2,362
Medical and other health assisting	19,005	22,267	23,491	24,276	25,858	29,776	39,277	46,950	41,921	39,126	36,813	5,068	31,745
Nursing and patient care assistant	38	101	158	329	385	1	33	36	35	38	50	5	45
Practical nursing	1,388	1,481	1,509	1,417	1,299	1,973	2,069	2,366	2,361	2,230	1,858	174	1,684
Nursing, registered nurse and other	58,007	62,095	66,516	73,277	77,922	81,281	83,023	84,569	86,380	86,435	82,952	11,785	71,167
Health sciences, other	34,389	38,759	43,135	45,419	48,169	52,193	65,314	71,188	68,613	66,030	63,957	11,238	52,719
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	23,749	26,425	28,208	29,590	33,012	37,154	44,922	51,318	48,460	45,771	43,039	23,876	19,163
Criminal justice and corrections	19,942	22,351	23,917	25,588	28,998	32,648	40,022	45,971	42,785	40,297	37,819	19,169	18,650
Fire control and safety	3,366	3,554	3,811	3,937	3,947	4,307	4,603	4,779	4,910	4,649	4,525	4,225	300
Homeland security and related protective       services, other	441	520	480	65	67	199	297	568	765	825	695	482	213
Legal professions and studies	9,885	10,509	10,391	9,465	9,062	9,999	11,619	12,315	11,862	10,502	9,095	1,362	7,733
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,       and humanities	240,131	244,689	250,030	254,012	263,947	284,954	306,674	336,938	344,171	353,946	367,626	141,139	226,487
Library science	108	136	84	117	116	112	160	159	181	194	170	25	145
Mathematics and statistics	807	753	827	855	933	1,051	1,644	1,529	1,801	2,148	2,697	1,915	782
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	13,619	14,454	15,432	15,297	16,059	16,326	19,969	20,715	20,487	20,100	19,983	18,933	1,050
Military technologies and applied sciences	355	610	781	851	721	668	856	986	1,002	1,084	1,229	1,015	214
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	13,888	14,473	15,838	16,255	15,472	17,279	23,729	27,263	27,407	28,167	29,139	11,998	17,141
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	966	1,128	1,251	1,344	1,587	2,006	2,366	3,123	3,455	4,383	4,669	2,941	1,728
Personal and culinary services	16,311	17,162	16,103	16,592	16,358	16,467	18,259	20,376	19,272	16,901	18,693	7,423	11,270
Philosophy and religious studies	422	367	375	458	193	256	283	308	326	435	697	339	358
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,825	2,910	3,412	3,395	3,650	4,141	5,078	5,827	6,376	6,916	7,568	4,497	3,071
Physical sciences	1,637	1,741	2,023	1,980	2,196	2,378	3,148	3,652	4,083	4,518	5,040	2,950	2,090
Science technologies/technicians	1,188	1,169	1,389	1,415	1,454	1,763	1,930	2,175	2,293	2,398	2,528	1,547	981
Precision production	2,039	1,977	1,973	1,968	2,127	2,794	3,254	3,320	3,345	3,903	4,382	4,149	233
Psychology	1,942	1,944	2,213	2,412	3,957	6,582	3,866	4,717	6,122	7,604	8,739	2,050	6,689
Public administration and social services	4,027	4,415	4,338	4,192	4,177	4,522	7,472	9,222	8,788	8,914	8,437	1,254	7,183
Social sciences and history	6,533	6,730	7,080	7,812	9,157	10,649	12,772	14,132	15,668	16,554	17,885	6,643	11,242
Social sciences	6,233	6,308	6,673	7,358	8,670	10,108	12,072	13,321	14,749	15,473	16,602	5,859	10,743
History	300	422	407	454	487	541	700	811	919	1,081	1,283	784	499
Theology and religious vocations	581	570	608	582	676	613	758	839	881	944	1,133	551	582
Transportation and materials moving	1,435	1,472	1,674	1,550	1,430	1,444	1,698	2,098	2,119	2,102	1,801	1,514	287
Visual and performing arts	22,650	21,754	20,244	18,890	18,606	19,565	21,394	22,431	22,309	21,340	20,988	8,411	12,577
Fine and studio arts	1,614	1,638	1,753	1,705	2,019	2,277	2,414	2,339	2,541	2,699	2,866	909	1,957
Music and dance	2,333	2,389	2,290	1,317	1,152	1,335	1,356	1,683	1,743	1,715	1,886	1,211	675
Visual and performing arts, other2	18,703	17,727	16,201	15,868	15,435	15,953	17,624	18,409	18,025	16,926	16,236	6,291	9,945
Not classified by field of study	0	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

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 degree-granting postsecondary institutions, which are institutions that grant associate's or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2005 through Fall 2015, Completions component. (This table was prepared September 2016.)