Table 321.12.

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

Discipline division	Total, all certificates below the associate's degree	Less-than-1-year certificates			1- to less-than-4-year certificates			Associate's degrees
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11
Total	501,499	296,502	152,625	143,877	204,997	91,274	113,723	674,423	267,066	407,357
Agriculture and natural resources	4,720	2,839	1,885	954	1,881	1,238	643	5,896	3,716	2,180
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences	4,092	2,342	1,524	818	1,750	1,136	614	4,672	2,856	1,816
Natural resources and conservation	628	497	361	136	131	102	29	1,224	860	364
Architecture and related services	223	152	104	48	71	55	16	397	270	127
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	64	63	14	49	1	0	1	284	121	163
Biological and biomedical sciences	165	94	33	61	71	26	45	4,371	1,465	2,906
Business, management, marketing, and support services	55,170	37,354	12,706	24,648	17,816	4,890	12,926	74,065	29,355	44,710
Accounting and related services	11,969	7,714	2,326	5,388	4,255	995	3,260	10,511	3,048	7,463
Business/commerce, general	2,577	1,198	479	719	1,379	688	691	11,807	5,257	6,550
Business administration, management, and operations	13,193	9,519	3,609	5,910	3,674	1,302	2,372	35,301	16,285	19,016
Management information systems and services	454	322	223	99	132	84	48	676	466	210
Business operations support and assistant services	13,074	8,228	2,170	6,058	4,846	549	4,297	5,213	395	4,818
Business and management, other	13,903	10,373	3,899	6,474	3,530	1,272	2,258	10,557	3,904	6,653
Communication, journalism, and related programs	1,151	795	399	396	356	177	179	5,271	2,306	2,965
Communications technologies	2,982	1,721	949	772	1,261	790	471	3,015	1,862	1,153
Computer and information sciences and support services	23,402	17,173	12,311	4,862	6,229	4,666	1,563	18,923	15,223	3,700
Construction trades	16,374	9,389	8,874	515	6,985	6,657	328	3,251	3,040	211
Education	6,222	3,923	221	3,702	2,299	218	2,081	12,735	1,526	11,209
Engineering	545	325	284	41	220	205	15	4,403	3,786	617
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	22,140	13,761	11,779	1,982	8,379	7,338	1,041	18,256	15,861	2,395
English language and literature/letters	499	438	170	268	61	21	40	2,009	704	1,305
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	17,154	14,007	1,103	12,904	3,147	263	2,884	7,636	341	7,295
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	1,413	894	156	738	519	57	462	1,909	456	1,453
Health professions and related programs	138,279	84,785	18,058	66,727	53,494	8,337	45,157	106,430	17,782	88,648
Dental assisting	5,004	1,309	132	1,177	3,695	168	3,527	4,437	188	4,249
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)	16,115	12,256	7,856	4,400	3,859	2,855	1,004	2,660	1,796	864
Clinical/medical lab science	6,012	5,432	662	4,770	580	71	509	2,030	446	1,584
Medical assisting	7,870	2,573	272	2,301	5,297	270	5,027	11,708	1,841	9,867
Pharmacy assisting	3,335	1,756	412	1,344	1,579	265	1,314	0	0	0
Other allied health assisting	4,569	3,802	1,520	2,282	767	121	646	0	0	0
Nursing and patient care assistant	31,007	30,773	3,737	27,036	234	27	207	22	4	18
Practical nursing	26,992	4,584	514	4,070	22,408	2,300	20,108	1,138	117	1,021
Nursing, registered nurse and other	2,359	1,298	151	1,147	1,061	168	893	52,846	7,350	45,496
Health sciences, other	35,016	21,002	2,802	18,200	14,014	2,092	11,922	31,589	6,040	25,549
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	28,435	21,825	15,862	5,963	6,610	4,465	2,145	27,684	16,370	11,314
Criminal justice and corrections	21,474	15,982	10,582	5,400	5,492	3,442	2,050	24,098	13,078	11,020
Fire control and safety	6,682	5,633	5,142	491	1,049	979	70	3,328	3,101	227
Homeland security and related protective services, other	279	210	138	72	69	44	25	258	191	67
Legal professions and studies	3,354	1,067	163	904	2,287	390	1,897	4,920	735	4,185
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	43,921	3,418	1,294	2,124	40,503	16,064	24,439	268,978	101,877	167,101
Library science	268	215	39	176	53	6	47	165	25	140
Mathematics and statistics	102	91	68	23	11	6	5	2,630	1,879	751
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	48,263	29,712	27,909	1,803	18,551	17,653	898	11,693	10,991	702
Military technologies and applied sciences	33	4	3	1	29	23	6	1,105	913	192
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	1,693	663	255	408	1,030	585	445	25,508	10,917	14,591
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	1,030	744	354	390	286	159	127	3,051	1,633	1,418
Personal and culinary services	20,936	9,511	2,255	7,256	11,425	2,207	9,218	6,388	2,209	4,179
Philosophy and religious studies	3	3	2	1	0	0	0	170	126	44
Physical sciences and science technologies	1,655	633	415	218	1,022	696	326	6,047	3,639	2,408
Physical sciences	130	113	66	47	17	15	2	4,082	2,357	1,725
Science technologies/technicians	1,525	520	349	171	1,005	681	324	1,965	1,282	683
Precision production	31,842	20,728	19,555	1,173	11,114	10,400	714	3,309	3,128	181
Psychology	120	51	16	35	69	13	56	7,648	1,839	5,809
Public administration and social services	1,795	1,133	240	893	662	135	527	5,665	913	4,752
Social sciences and history	677	503	299	204	174	98	76	17,505	6,465	11,040
Social sciences	652	487	294	193	165	93	72	16,343	5,751	10,592
History	25	16	5	11	9	5	4	1,162	714	448
Theology and religious vocations	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	4	3	1
Transportation and materials moving	14,525	13,889	12,642	1,247	636	584	52	773	635	138
Visual and performing arts	12,344	4,599	2,208	2,391	7,745	2,852	4,893	12,329	4,955	7,374
Fine and studio arts	5,514	100	45	55	5,414	1,912	3,502	2,568	841	1,727
Music and dance	333	213	135	78	120	81	39	1,194	675	519
Visual and performing arts, other2	6,497	4,286	2,028	2,258	2,211	859	1,352	8,567	3,439	5,128

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 2-year institutions that participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs, including institutions that grant associate's degrees and those that 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 July 2017.)