Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

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Table H186. Percentage of public high school graduates who earned any credits, and various minimum numbers of credits, by career and technical education (CTE) curricular and subject area: 2013

CTE curricular and subject area	Any credits	At least 1 credit	At least 2 credits		At least 3 credits
CTE	88.0	80.7	58.3		38.9
Agriculture and natural resources	14.3	11.0	5.0		2.6
Business, finance, and marketing	43.3	30.2	9.6		4.1
Business management	13.6	8.2	1.6		0.4
Finance	10.1	6.4	1.3		0.2	!
Marketing	8.8	6.1	1.7		0.6
Office support	24.8	15.1	1.7		0.4	!
Communication and communication technologies	28.6	19.2	5.4		1.8
Computer and information sciences	20.3	13.6	2.7		0.9
Construction	10.5	7.4	3.0		1.5
Consumer services	21.5	13.7	4.8		2.2
Child and elder care	7.1	3.5	0.7		0.2	!
Cosmetology	1.3	1.2	0.8		0.7
Hospitality services	13.1	7.9	2.7		1.0
Textiles and furnishings	3.3	1.4	0.1	!	‡
Engineering, design, and production	21.5	16.2	6.3		3.2
Engineering and design	12.9	9.8	3.2		1.6
Manufacturing and technology	11.4	7.7	2.5		1.1
Health care	11.4	8.7	4.0		2.1
Mechanical repair and operation	6.5	4.4	2.1		1.4
Public services	13.1	9.1	2.4		1.0
Education	3.7	3.1	1.3		0.5	!
Public safety and administration	9.6	6.1	1.0		0.5

CTE-related	45.3	26.7	7.3		2.2
Family and consumer sciences education	37.0	20.0	4.6		1.0
Career exploration	15.5	7.2	1.4		0.6

CTE and CTE-related	92.0	85.8	67.4		48.8

! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error is between 30 and 50 percent of the estimate.
‡ Reporting standards not met. The standard error is greater than 50 percent of the estimate.
NOTE: Public high school graduates are defined as students who graduated from a public high school with an honors or standard diploma by August 31 of their scheduled graduation year (2013). The table includes only graduates who had a complete grade 9–12 transcript, defined as one that recorded at least 16 Carnegie units (a Carnegie unit is a credit hour, i.e., the equivalent of a course taken every school day, one period per day, for a full school year), with a positive, nonzero number of units completed in English. See https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/xls/SSCT2018.xls for the taxonomy used to define subject areas. The estimated total number of public high school graduates is 3,192,000, with a standard error of 31,300.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences, National Center for Education Statistics, High School Longitudinal Study of 2009 (HSLS:09), Base-year, 2013 Update, and High School Transcript File.

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