Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

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Table P178. Percentage distributions of subbaccalaureate occupational education students across credential goals and across selected student characteristics, by selected institution type: 2015–16

Credential goal and student characteristic	All students	Public 2-year	Private for-profit	Other¹
Credential goal
Certificate	22.3	13.6	56.7	23.1
Associate’s degree	77.7	86.4	43.3	76.9
Sex
Male	42.0	45.7	30.5	39.6
Female	58.0	54.3	69.5	60.4
Age (as of 12/31/15)
Younger than 25	50.6	52.5	41.9	51.6
25–34	29.4	27.8	35.5	29.7
35 or older	19.9	19.7	22.6	18.6
Race/ethnicity²
White	47.2	48.7	40.2	47.8
Black	18.3	15.7	29.2	17.8
Hispanic	23.7	23.8	23.5	23.3
Asian	6.1	6.7	3.1	6.4
Other	4.8	5.1	3.9	4.7
Family income³
Lowest 25 percent	27.2	26.0	32.9	26.3
Middle 50 percent	53.1	52.5	55.5	53.1
Highest 25 percent	19.8	21.6	11.6	20.6
Parents’ highest level of education⁴
High school or less	31.9	32.2	35.2	28.6
Some college, no bachelor’s degree	35.5	35.5	35.4	35.9
Bachelor’s or higher degree	32.5	32.3	29.5	35.5

¹Includes students who attended a public less-than-2-year institution, public 4-year institution, private nonprofit institution, or more than one institution.
²Black includes African American, Hispanic includes Latino, and Other includes American Indian or Alaska Native, Pacific Islander or Native Hawaiian, and persons of Two or more races. Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity.
³Family income is the 2014 income of parents of dependent students, or the 2014 income of independent students and (if married) their spouse.
⁴Excludes 0.6 percent of subbaccalaureate occupational education students who did not know their parents’ highest level of education.
NOTE: Occupational education consists of agriculture and natural resources; business and marketing; communication and communications technologies; computer and information sciences; consumer services (personal and culinary services; family, consumer, and human sciences; and parks, recreation, and fitness studies); education; engineering, architecture, and science technologies; health sciences; manufacturing, construction, repair, and transportation; protective services; and public, legal, and social services (legal professions and studies; library science; theology and religious vocations; and public administration and social services). Data include students enrolled in Title IV eligible postsecondary institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The estimated number of subbaccalaureate occupational students is approximately 6,705,000. Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2015–16 National Postsecondary Student Aid Study (NPSAS:16).

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