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| Table 257. | Associate degrees conferred by institutions of higher education, by racial/ethnic group, major field of study, and sex of student: 1993-94 |
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| Total | Men | Women
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| | White, |Black, | | Asian/ |American| | | White, |Black, | | Asian/ |American| | | White, |Black, | | Asian/ |American|
Major field of study | Total | non- | non- | His- |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-| Total | non- | non- | His- |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-| Total | non- | non- | His- |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-
| |Hispanic| His- | panic |Islander|Alaskan | dent | |Hispanic| His- | panic |Islander|Alaskan | dent | |Hispanic| His- | panic |Islander|Alaskan | dent
| | | panic | | | Native | alien | | | panic | | | Native | alien | | | panic | | | Native | alien
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22
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All fields, total\1\ ..........................| 540,923 |428,273 |46,451 |32,438 | 18,659 | 4,975 | 10,127 |220,191 |174,947 |17,379 |13,395 | 8,403 | 1,895 | 4,172 |320,732 |253,326 |29,072 |19,043 | 10,256 | 3,080 | 5,955
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Agriculture and natural resources ...............| 5,720 | 5,363 | 54 | 108 | 33 | 87 | 75 | 3,869 | 3,627 | 35 | 74 | 26 | 59 | 48 | 1,851 | 1,736 | 19 | 34 | 7 | 28 | 27
Architecture and related programs ...............| 353 | 260 | 8 | 42 | 31 | 0 | 12 | 115 | 66 | 6 | 26 | 12 | 0 | 5 | 238 | 194 | 2 | 16 | 19 | 0 | 7
Area, ethnic, and cultural studies ..............| 92 | 20 | 13 | 11 | 0 | 20 | 28 | 34 | 9 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 11 | 3 | 58 | 11 | 5 | 8 | 0 | 9 | 25
Biological sciences/life sciences ...............| 1,852 | 1,334 | 99 | 152 | 175 | 36 | 56 | 744 | 528 | 31 | 68 | 78 | 17 | 22 | 1,108 | 806 | 68 | 84 | 97 | 19 | 34
Business management and administrative services..| 108,310 | 81,952 |11,895 | 6,763 | 4,047 | 892 | 2,761 | 34,068 | 26,006 | 3,500 | 1,984 | 1,366 | 226 | 986 | 74,242 | 55,946 | 8,395 | 4,779 | 2,681 | 666 | 1,775
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Communications ..................................| 2,110 | 1,696 | 180 | 104 | 54 | 16 | 60 | 984 | 823 | 66 | 48 | 16 | 7 | 24 | 1,126 | 873 | 114 | 56 | 38 | 9 | 36
Communications technologies .....................| 2,789 | 2,252 | 343 | 110 | 35 | 10 | 39 | 1,807 | 1,474 | 223 | 71 | 24 | 4 | 11 | 982 | 778 | 120 | 39 | 11 | 6 | 28
Computer and information sciences ...............| 9,456 | 6,801 | 1,108 | 697 | 499 | 108 | 243 | 4,740 | 3,503 | 432 | 353 | 280 | 36 | 136 | 4,716 | 3,298 | 676 | 344 | 219 | 72 | 107
Construction trades .............................| 1,724 | 1,447 | 90 | 63 | 74 | 38 | 12 | 1,644 | 1,383 | 82 | 62 | 72 | 35 | 10 | 80 | 64 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 2
Education .......................................| 10,021 | 8,064 | 897 | 672 | 105 | 196 | 87 | 3,149 | 2,552 | 339 | 153 | 25 | 56 | 24 | 6,872 | 5,512 | 558 | 519 | 80 | 140 | 63
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Engineering .....................................| 2,799 | 2,195 | 184 | 122 | 189 | 19 | 90 | 2,447 | 1,949 | 152 | 100 | 152 | 17 | 77 | 352 | 246 | 32 | 22 | 37 | 2 | 13
Engineering-related technologies ................| 36,877 | 29,875 | 2,922 | 2,199 | 1,247 | 259 | 375 | 32,784 | 26,671 | 2,470 | 1,987 | 1,122 | 221 | 313 | 4,093 | 3,204 | 452 | 212 | 125 | 38 | 62
English language and literature/letters .........| 1,354 | 794 | 70 | 173 | 92 | 12 | 213 | 493 | 275 | 26 | 69 | 27 | 4 | 92 | 861 | 519 | 44 | 104 | 65 | 8 | 121
Foreign languages and literatures................| 517 | 367 | 8 | 62 | 27 | 8 | 45 | 151 | 105 | 3 | 21 | 11 | 2 | 9 | 366 | 262 | 5 | 41 | 16 | 6 | 36
Health professions and related sciences .........| 95,832 | 81,747 | 6,758 | 3,469 | 2,293 | 761 | 804 | 15,476 | 12,616 | 1,140 | 826 | 571 | 153 | 170 | 80,356 | 69,131 | 5,618 | 2,643 | 1,722 | 608 | 634
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Home economics and vocational home economics ....| 7,562 | 5,634 | 885 | 553 | 257 | 79 | 154 | 643 | 476 | 55 | 31 | 58 | 12 | 11 | 6,919 | 5,158 | 830 | 522 | 199 | 67 | 143
Law and legal studies ...........................| 9,008 | 7,190 | 962 | 590 | 127 | 86 | 53 | 1,103 | 788 | 165 | 91 | 31 | 17 | 11 | 7,905 | 6,402 | 797 | 499 | 96 | 69 | 42
Liberal arts and sciences, | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
general studies, and humanities ...............| 164,575 |127,907 |13,699 |11,384 | 6,487 | 1,502 | 3,596 | 65,879 | 51,217 | 5,239 | 4,426 | 2,844 | 534 | 1,619 | 98,696 | 76,690 | 8,460 | 6,958 | 3,643 | 968 | 1,977
Library science .................................| 118 | 103 | 8 | 3 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 16 | 11 | 1 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 102 | 92 | 7 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0
Mathematics .....................................| 765 | 509 | 40 | 87 | 79 | 11 | 39 | 436 | 278 | 29 | 46 | 50 | 7 | 26 | 329 | 231 | 11 | 41 | 29 | 4 | 13
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Mechanics and repairers .........................| 11,618 | 9,579 | 808 | 558 | 453 | 103 | 117 | 10,873 | 9,024 | 725 | 505 | 413 | 96 | 110 | 745 | 555 | 83 | 53 | 40 | 7 | 7
Multi/interdisciplinary studies .................| 8,461 | 6,883 | 729 | 396 | 352 | 47 | 54 | 4,059 | 3,281 | 360 | 192 | 179 | 25 | 22 | 4,402 | 3,602 | 369 | 204 | 173 | 22 | 32
Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies ..| 767 | 614 | 74 | 39 | 18 | 11 | 11 | 465 | 359 | 56 | 23 | 13 | 9 | 5 | 302 | 255 | 18 | 16 | 5 | 2 | 6
Philosophy and religion .........................| 94 | 78 | 5 | 7 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 55 | 45 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 33 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0
Physical sciences and science technologies.......| 2,622 | 2,067 | 185 | 123 | 161 | 26 | 60 | 1,527 | 1,242 | 76 | 69 | 94 | 13 | 33 | 1,095 | 825 | 109 | 54 | 67 | 13 | 27
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Precision production trades......................| 9,661 | 7,972 | 384 | 704 | 434 | 84 | 83 | 7,779 | 6,453 | 293 | 588 | 318 | 70 | 57 | 1,882 | 1,519 | 91 | 116 | 116 | 14 | 26
Protective services .............................| 19,416 | 16,030 | 1,677 | 1,156 | 264 | 172 | 117 | 13,956 | 11,930 | 872 | 776 | 197 | 115 | 66 | 5,460 | 4,100 | 805 | 380 | 67 | 57 | 51
Psychology ......................................| 1,756 | 1,347 | 152 | 156 | 38 | 39 | 24 | 433 | 318 | 49 | 40 | 10 | 10 | 6 | 1,323 | 1,029 | 103 | 116 | 28 | 29 | 18
Public administration and services ..............| 3,720 | 2,457 | 724 | 331 | 78 | 79 | 51 | 762 | 480 | 151 | 69 | 27 | 17 | 18 | 2,958 | 1,977 | 573 | 262 | 51 | 62 | 33
R.O.T.C. and military technologies ..............| 265 | 221 | 40 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 245 | 207 | 35 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 14 | 5 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0
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Social sciences and history......................| 4,100 | 2,780 | 412 | 479 | 196 | 106 | 127 | 1,631 | 1,137 | 160 | 160 | 83 | 33 | 58 | 2,469 | 1,643 | 252 | 319 | 113 | 73 | 69
Theological studies/religious vocations .........| 642 | 511 | 71 | 18 | 19 | 5 | 18 | 343 | 268 | 39 | 12 | 16 | 2 | 6 | 299 | 243 | 32 | 6 | 3 | 3 | 12
Transportation and material moving ..............| 1,988 | 1,663 | 143 | 74 | 38 | 15 | 55 | 1,654 | 1,397 | 124 | 66 | 30 | 11 | 26 | 334 | 266 | 19 | 8 | 8 | 4 | 29
Visual and performing arts ......................| 13,979 | 10,561 | 824 | 1,029 | 749 | 148 | 668 | 5,827 | 4,449 | 432 | 450 | 252 | 76 | 168 | 8,152 | 6,112 | 392 | 579 | 497 | 72 | 500
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| \1\Reported racial/ethnic distributions of students by level of degree, field of degree, and sex were used to estimate
race/ethnicity for students whose race/ethnicity was not reported. Excludes 799 men and 727 women whose racial/ethnic
group and field of study were not available.
NOTE.--To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the IPEDS "Completions" survey: "Agriculture and natural resources" includes Agribusiness and agriculture production, Agricultural sciences, and Conservation and renewable natural resources; and "Business management and administrative services" includes Business and management, Business and office, Marketing and distribution, and Consumer and personal services. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Completions" survey. (This table was prepared May 1996.)
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