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Table P185. Percentage distribution of credential-seeking undergraduate students across credential goals and curricular areas, by student sex, student age, and parents’ highest level of education: 2015–16

Credential goal and curricular area	All students	Sex		Age (as of 12/31/15)				Parents’ highest level of education¹
Credential goal and curricular area	All students	Male	Female	Younger than 25	25–34		35 or older	High school or less	Some college, no bachelor’s degree		Bachelor’s or higher degree
Subbaccalaureate credential	52.0	50.5	53.1	44.9	63.8		65.7	64.6	58.4		40.5
Occupational education	35.8	34.6	36.8	28.4	48.0		50.3	47.9	39.9		26.3
Academic education	14.4	14.1	14.7	14.7	14.2		13.4	14.4	16.4		13.0
Undecided	1.8	1.8	1.7	1.7	1.6		2.0	2.3	2.0		1.2
Certificate	9.0	8.4	9.5	6.2	12.9		15.6	12.1	9.8		6.8
Occupational education	8.0	7.4	8.4	5.5	11.7		13.6	11.0	8.7		5.8
Academic education	0.9	0.8	0.9	0.6	1.1		1.6	0.8	0.9		0.8
Undecided	0.2	0.2	0.1	0.1	0.2	!	0.5	0.3	0.1	!	0.1
Associate’s degree	43.0	42.1	43.7	38.6	50.9		50.1	52.6	48.6		33.7
Occupational education	27.8	27.2	28.3	22.9	36.3		36.7	36.9	31.2		20.4
Academic education	13.5	13.3	13.8	14.1	13.1		11.9	13.6	15.5		12.1
Undecided	1.6	1.6	1.6	1.7	1.5		1.5	2.0	1.9		1.1
Bachelor’s degree	48.0	49.5	46.9	55.1	36.2		34.3	35.4	41.6		59.5
Occupational education	31.1	33.8	29.0	33.8	25.9		27.1	24.2	27.9		37.2
Academic education	16.3	15.0	17.2	20.5	10.1		7.0	10.7	13.3		21.5
Undecided	0.6	0.7	0.6	0.9	0.2		0.2	0.5	0.4		0.9

! Interpret data with caution. Estimate is unstable because the standard error is between 30 and 50 percent of the estimate.

¹Excludes 0.4 percent of credential-seeking 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). Academic education consists of English/letters, foreign languages, interdisciplinary studies, liberal arts, natural sciences and mathematics, philosophy and religious studies, social and behavioral sciences (area/ethnic studies, history, international relations and affairs, political science, psychology, and other social sciences), and visual and performing arts. Data include students enrolled in Title IV eligible postsecondary institutions in the 50 states and the District of Columbia. The estimated number of credential-seeking undergraduates is approximately 18,716,000. 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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