Table 321.10.

Associate's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by sex of student and discipline division: 2006-07 through 2016-17

Discipline division	2006-07	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17
											Total	Males	Females
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Total	727,616	750,166	787,243	848,856	943,506	1,021,718	1,007,427	1,005,155	1,014,341	1,008,228	1,005,649	394,159	611,490
Agriculture and natural resources	5,838	5,738	5,724	5,852	6,430	7,068	6,826	7,057	7,693	7,858	8,207	5,039	3,168
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and     related sciences	4,638	4,554	4,525	4,615	4,925	5,400	5,227	5,420	5,975	6,158	6,438	3,836	2,602
Natural resources and conservation	1,200	1,184	1,199	1,237	1,505	1,668	1,599	1,637	1,718	1,700	1,769	1,203	566
Architecture and related services	516	568	605	553	569	593	468	425	491	478	503	332	171
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	164	169	174	199	209	194	271	363	382	419	420	181	239
Biological and biomedical sciences	2,027	2,200	2,337	2,664	3,276	3,834	4,185	4,557	4,883	5,266	5,550	1,749	3,801
Business	116,113	121,221	127,882	133,265	139,994	143,390	134,114	129,957	132,374	128,259	122,234	48,404	73,830
Business, management, marketing, and support services	100,015	104,631	111,524	116,798	121,735	123,014	114,842	113,056	113,681	110,036	108,353	43,299	65,054
Accounting and related services	14,234	15,963	16,707	17,925	20,180	20,270	18,061	17,400	16,080	14,790	13,751	4,027	9,724
Business/commerce, general	12,723	12,496	13,100	14,553	15,083	17,301	17,211	17,372	18,235	18,087	18,293	7,860	10,433
Business administration, management, and operations	43,660	47,910	52,938	46,086	46,253	45,879	49,816	50,121	52,668	52,758	53,927	24,416	29,511
Management information systems and services	2,007	1,232	1,103	1,221	1,244	1,164	1,085	1,176	987	935	954	661	293
Business operations support and assistant services	8,874	7,838	7,550	7,399	8,259	8,977	7,986	7,331	6,570	5,871	5,131	484	4,647
Business and management, other	18,517	19,192	20,126	29,614	30,716	29,423	20,683	19,656	19,141	17,595	16,297	5,851	10,446
Personal and culinary services	16,098	16,590	16,358	16,467	18,259	20,376	19,272	16,901	18,693	18,223	13,881	5,105	8,776
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,609	2,620	2,722	2,841	3,051	3,495	4,299	4,970	6,034	6,759	7,377	3,202	4,175
Communications technologies	3,068	4,268	4,805	4,418	4,209	5,004	5,028	4,713	4,628	4,569	4,305	2,840	1,465
Computer and information sciences and support services	27,712	28,298	29,912	32,351	37,689	41,250	38,954	37,646	36,420	30,571	31,162	24,816	6,346
Construction trades	3,894	4,309	4,252	4,684	5,402	5,750	5,038	4,837	4,643	4,699	5,308	4,956	352
Education	13,021	13,111	14,123	17,346	20,460	20,762	18,744	17,605	17,178	17,032	16,593	1,882	14,711
Engineering	2,127	2,279	2,170	2,508	2,825	3,382	3,732	4,306	4,875	5,278	5,915	4,995	920
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	29,177	29,359	30,441	31,883	35,519	36,642	33,752	31,792	31,958	27,243	27,024	23,278	3,746
English language and literature/letters	1,248	1,402	1,534	1,658	2,019	2,137	2,089	2,082	2,324	2,551	2,870	953	1,917
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	9,123	8,614	9,035	9,515	8,532	9,506	8,996	8,669	8,750	8,930	8,881	360	8,521
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,207	1,258	1,630	1,683	1,888	1,980	2,131	2,284	2,102	2,208	2,363	597	1,766
Health professions and related programs	145,146	155,794	165,015	177,321	202,920	219,491	214,040	208,885	200,018	191,442	186,299	29,779	156,520
Dental assisting	6,295	6,642	6,574	7,063	7,498	7,790	7,823	7,988	7,762	7,584	7,397	399	6,998
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)	2,008	2,140	2,270	2,413	2,895	3,352	3,520	3,521	3,456	3,380	3,452	2,318	1,134
Clinical/medical lab science	2,306	2,316	2,538	2,621	2,811	3,240	3,387	3,517	3,143	3,186	3,062	769	2,293
Medical and other health assisting	23,492	24,291	25,858	29,776	39,277	46,950	41,921	39,126	36,813	34,749	32,285	4,826	27,459
Nursing and patient care assistant	158	329	385	1	33	36	35	38	50	52	56	2	54
Practical nursing	1,509	1,417	1,299	1,973	2,069	2,366	2,361	2,230	1,858	1,404	1,420	125	1,295
Nursing, registered nurse and other	66,578	73,398	77,922	81,281	83,023	84,569	86,380	86,435	82,953	78,577	77,073	10,895	66,178
Health sciences, other	42,800	45,261	48,169	52,193	65,314	71,188	68,613	66,030	63,983	62,510	61,554	10,445	51,109
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	28,160	29,485	33,012	37,154	44,922	51,318	48,460	45,771	43,041	39,930	37,361	21,010	16,351
Criminal justice and corrections	23,860	25,471	28,998	32,648	40,022	45,971	42,785	40,297	37,820	35,122	32,591	16,729	15,862
Fire control and safety	3,820	3,949	3,947	4,307	4,603	4,779	4,910	4,649	4,525	4,241	4,188	3,860	328
Homeland security and related protective     services, other	480	65	67	199	297	568	765	825	696	567	582	421	161
Legal professions and studies	10,385	9,464	9,062	9,999	11,619	12,315	11,862	10,502	9,095	8,017	6,900	1,034	5,866
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,     and humanities	249,981	253,990	263,947	284,954	306,674	336,938	344,171	353,946	367,852	381,202	386,658	147,523	239,135
Library science	84	117	116	112	160	159	181	194	170	146	158	20	138
Mathematics and statistics	827	855	933	1,051	1,644	1,529	1,801	2,148	2,697	3,027	3,454	2,370	1,084
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	15,411	15,518	16,059	16,326	19,969	20,715	20,487	20,100	19,984	20,543	20,827	19,401	1,426
Military technologies and applied sciences	781	851	721	668	856	986	1,002	1,084	1,229	1,047	1,093	879	214
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	15,838	16,247	15,472	17,279	23,729	27,263	27,407	28,167	29,139	30,482	30,780	12,873	17,907
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	1,251	1,345	1,587	2,006	2,366	3,123	3,455	4,383	4,669	4,771	5,037	2,955	2,082
Philosophy and religious studies	375	458	193	256	283	308	326	435	697	814	1,002	574	428
Physical sciences and science technologies	3,409	3,394	3,650	4,141	5,078	5,827	6,376	6,916	7,568	8,484	9,223	5,457	3,766
Physical sciences	2,019	1,979	2,196	2,378	3,148	3,652	4,083	4,518	5,040	5,528	5,838	3,376	2,462
Science technologies/technicians	1,390	1,415	1,454	1,763	1,930	2,175	2,293	2,398	2,528	2,956	3,385	2,081	1,304
Precision production	1,972	1,967	2,127	2,794	3,254	3,320	3,345	3,903	4,382	4,794	5,272	4,905	367
Psychology	2,213	2,411	3,957	6,582	3,866	4,717	6,122	7,604	8,780	10,603	11,286	2,673	8,613
Public administration and social services	4,340	4,194	4,177	4,522	7,472	9,222	8,788	8,914	8,436	7,988	7,591	1,052	6,539
Social sciences and history	7,080	7,812	9,157	10,649	12,772	14,132	15,668	16,554	17,916	20,056	21,392	7,981	13,411
Social sciences	6,673	7,358	8,670	10,108	12,072	13,321	14,749	15,473	16,631	18,451	19,636	6,880	12,756
History	407	454	487	541	700	811	919	1,081	1,285	1,605	1,756	1,101	655
Theology and religious vocations	608	582	676	613	758	839	881	944	1,135	1,089	1,619	992	627
Transportation and materials moving	1,674	1,550	1,430	1,444	1,698	2,098	2,119	2,102	1,810	1,497	1,547	1,338	209
Visual and performing arts	20,237	18,704	18,606	19,565	21,394	22,431	22,309	21,340	20,988	20,176	19,438	7,759	11,679
Fine and studio arts	1,755	1,706	2,019	2,277	2,414	2,339	2,541	2,699	2,866	3,082	3,315	1,090	2,225
Music and dance	2,288	1,317	1,152	1,335	1,356	1,683	1,743	1,715	1,886	1,989	1,993	1,217	776
Visual and performing arts, other2	16,194	15,681	15,435	15,953	17,624	18,409	18,025	16,926	16,236	15,105	14,130	5,452	8,678
Not classified by field of study	0	14	0	0	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 2007 through Fall 2017, Completions component. (This table was prepared September 2018.)