Table 321.10.

Associate's degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions, by sex of student and discipline division: 2007-08 through 2017-18

Discipline division	2007-08	2008-09	2009-10	2010-11	2011-12	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	2015-16	2016-17	2017-18
											Total	Males	Females
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14
Total	750,166	787,243	848,856	943,506	1,021,718	1,007,427	1,005,155	1,014,341	1,008,228	1,005,687	1,011,487	398,600	612,887
Agriculture and natural resources	5,738	5,724	5,852	6,430	7,068	6,826	7,057	7,693	7,858	8,208	8,076	4,834	3,242
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and    related sciences	4,554	4,525	4,615	4,925	5,400	5,227	5,420	5,975	6,158	6,439	6,306	3,659	2,647
Natural resources and conservation	1,184	1,199	1,237	1,505	1,668	1,599	1,637	1,718	1,700	1,769	1,770	1,175	595
Architecture and related services	568	605	553	569	593	468	425	491	478	503	539	358	181
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	169	174	199	209	194	271	363	382	419	420	559	230	329
Biological and biomedical sciences	2,200	2,337	2,664	3,276	3,834	4,185	4,557	4,883	5,266	5,550	6,390	2,072	4,318
Business	121,221	127,882	133,265	139,994	143,390	134,114	129,957	132,374	128,259	122,252	117,782	47,418	70,364
Business, management, marketing, and support services	104,631	111,524	116,798	121,735	123,014	114,842	113,056	113,681	110,036	108,376	105,751	43,015	62,736
Accounting and related services	15,963	16,707	17,925	20,180	20,270	18,061	17,400	16,080	14,790	13,760	13,013	3,798	9,215
Business/commerce, general	12,496	13,100	14,553	15,083	17,301	17,211	17,372	18,235	18,087	18,293	17,060	7,491	9,569
Business administration, management, and operations	47,910	52,938	46,086	46,253	45,879	49,816	50,121	52,668	52,758	53,930	55,382	25,198	30,184
Management information systems and services	1,232	1,103	1,221	1,244	1,164	1,085	1,176	987	935	953	920	646	274
Business operations support and assistant services	7,838	7,550	7,399	8,259	8,977	7,986	7,331	6,570	5,871	5,141	4,617	473	4,144
Business and management, other	19,192	20,126	29,614	30,716	29,423	20,683	19,656	19,141	17,595	16,299	14,759	5,409	9,350
Personal and culinary services	16,590	16,358	16,467	18,259	20,376	19,272	16,901	18,693	18,223	13,876	12,031	4,403	7,628
Communication, journalism, and related programs	2,620	2,722	2,841	3,051	3,495	4,299	4,970	6,034	6,759	7,379	7,785	3,269	4,516
Communications technologies	4,268	4,805	4,418	4,209	5,004	5,028	4,713	4,628	4,569	4,307	4,197	2,782	1,415
Computer and information sciences and support services	28,298	29,912	32,351	37,689	41,250	38,954	37,646	36,420	30,571	31,171	31,479	25,236	6,243
Construction trades	4,309	4,252	4,684	5,402	5,750	5,038	4,837	4,643	4,699	5,308	5,277	4,968	309
Education	13,111	14,123	17,346	20,460	20,762	18,744	17,605	17,178	17,032	16,603	16,182	1,843	14,339
Engineering	2,279	2,170	2,508	2,825	3,382	3,732	4,306	4,875	5,278	5,915	6,408	5,334	1,074
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	29,359	30,441	31,883	35,519	36,642	33,752	31,792	31,958	27,243	27,021	26,745	22,899	3,846
English language and literature/letters	1,402	1,534	1,658	2,019	2,137	2,089	2,082	2,324	2,551	2,870	3,133	1,049	2,084
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	8,614	9,035	9,515	8,532	9,506	8,996	8,669	8,750	8,930	8,871	8,854	400	8,454
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,258	1,630	1,683	1,888	1,980	2,131	2,284	2,102	2,208	2,363	2,607	625	1,982
Health professions and related programs	155,794	165,015	177,321	202,920	219,491	214,040	208,885	200,018	191,442	186,312	181,056	29,483	151,573
Dental assisting	6,642	6,574	7,063	7,498	7,790	7,823	7,988	7,762	7,584	7,397	7,073	361	6,712
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)	2,140	2,270	2,413	2,895	3,352	3,520	3,521	3,456	3,380	3,453	3,410	2,306	1,104
Clinical/medical lab science	2,316	2,538	2,621	2,811	3,240	3,387	3,517	3,143	3,186	3,062	3,051	722	2,329
Medical and other health assisting	24,291	25,858	29,776	39,277	46,950	41,921	39,126	36,813	34,749	32,297	28,723	4,611	24,112
Nursing and patient care assistant	329	385	1	33	36	35	38	50	52	56	100	11	89
Practical nursing	1,417	1,299	1,973	2,069	2,366	2,361	2,230	1,858	1,404	1,420	1,105	99	1,006
Nursing, registered nurse and other	73,398	77,922	81,281	83,023	84,569	86,380	86,435	82,953	78,577	77,083	77,674	11,217	66,457
Health sciences, other	45,261	48,169	52,193	65,314	71,188	68,613	66,030	63,983	62,510	61,544	59,920	10,156	49,764
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	29,485	33,012	37,154	44,922	51,318	48,460	45,771	43,041	39,930	37,362	35,276	19,997	15,279
Criminal justice and corrections	25,471	28,998	32,648	40,022	45,971	42,785	40,297	37,820	35,122	32,589	30,463	15,713	14,750
Fire control and safety	3,949	3,947	4,307	4,603	4,779	4,910	4,649	4,525	4,241	4,191	4,287	3,916	371
Homeland security and related protective    services, other	65	67	199	297	568	765	825	696	567	582	526	368	158
Legal professions and studies	9,464	9,062	9,999	11,619	12,315	11,862	10,502	9,095	8,017	6,904	6,237	1,011	5,226
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies,    and humanities	253,990	263,947	284,954	306,674	336,938	344,171	353,946	367,852	381,202	386,746	397,926	151,028	246,898
Library science	117	116	112	160	159	181	194	170	146	158	156	21	135
Mathematics and statistics	855	933	1,051	1,644	1,529	1,801	2,148	2,697	3,027	3,454	4,135	2,880	1,255
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	15,518	16,059	16,326	19,969	20,715	20,487	20,100	19,984	20,543	20,821	21,295	19,846	1,449
Military technologies and applied sciences	851	721	668	856	986	1,002	1,084	1,229	1,047	1,093	1,226	946	280
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	16,247	15,472	17,279	23,729	27,263	27,407	28,167	29,139	30,482	30,780	31,068	13,002	18,066
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	1,345	1,587	2,006	2,366	3,123	3,455	4,383	4,669	4,771	5,037	5,095	2,758	2,337
Philosophy and religious studies	458	193	256	283	308	326	435	697	814	1,002	1,049	640	409
Physical sciences and science technologies	3,394	3,650	4,141	5,078	5,827	6,376	6,916	7,568	8,484	9,223	10,116	5,927	4,189
Physical sciences	1,979	2,196	2,378	3,148	3,652	4,083	4,518	5,040	5,528	5,838	6,688	3,908	2,780
Science technologies/technicians	1,415	1,454	1,763	1,930	2,175	2,293	2,398	2,528	2,956	3,385	3,428	2,019	1,409
Precision production	1,967	2,127	2,794	3,254	3,320	3,345	3,903	4,382	4,794	5,251	5,333	4,967	366
Psychology	2,411	3,957	6,582	3,866	4,717	6,122	7,604	8,780	10,603	11,283	12,489	2,921	9,568
Public administration and social services	4,194	4,177	4,522	7,472	9,222	8,788	8,914	8,436	7,988	7,591	7,136	1,003	6,133
Social sciences and history	7,812	9,157	10,649	12,772	14,132	15,668	16,554	17,916	20,056	21,392	23,683	8,849	14,834
Social sciences	7,358	8,670	10,108	12,072	13,321	14,749	15,473	16,631	18,451	19,636	21,545	7,516	14,029
History	454	487	541	700	811	919	1,081	1,285	1,605	1,756	2,138	1,333	805
Theology and religious vocations	582	676	613	758	839	881	944	1,135	1,089	1,546	1,435	786	649
Transportation and materials moving	1,550	1,430	1,444	1,698	2,098	2,119	2,102	1,810	1,497	1,547	1,610	1,394	216
Visual and performing arts	18,704	18,606	19,565	21,394	22,431	22,309	21,340	20,988	20,176	19,444	19,153	7,824	11,329
Fine and studio arts	1,706	2,019	2,277	2,414	2,339	2,541	2,699	2,866	3,082	3,315	3,766	1,260	2,506
Music and dance	1,317	1,152	1,335	1,356	1,683	1,743	1,715	1,886	1,989	1,993	2,313	1,456	857
Visual and performing arts, other2	15,681	15,435	15,953	17,624	18,409	18,025	16,926	16,236	15,105	14,136	13,074	5,108	7,966
Not classified by field of study	14	0	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 postsecondary institutions participating 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 2008 through Fall 2018, Completions component. (This table was prepared August 2019.)