Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

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Table P201. Number of subbaccalaureate occupational education credentials awarded by Title IV postsecondary institutions, by credential level, level of institution, and control of institution: United States, 2005–06 to 2016–17

Credential level, level of institution, and control of institution	2005–06	2006–07	2007–08	2008–09	2009–10	2010–11	2011–12	2012–13	2013–14	2014–15	2015–16	2016–17

Total, all institutions	1,109,519	1,126,564	1,165,349	1,239,488	1,397,779	1,544,301	1,532,665	1,484,866	1,465,519	1,440,597	1,385,717	1,367,858

Certificate	692,766	702,152	722,556	772,236	897,721	981,688	930,006	907,887	904,304	889,004	859,779	853,256
Associate's degree	416,753	424,412	442,793	467,252	500,058	562,613	602,659	576,979	561,215	551,593	525,938	514,602

Level of institution

4-year institutions	139,717	159,458	175,414	199,422	234,853	272,005	286,514	277,803	275,246	273,349	274,299	280,170

Certificate	35,747	44,905	48,327	52,579	67,236	79,107	78,076	87,011	96,826	103,562	118,601	126,672
Associate's degree	103,970	114,553	127,087	146,843	167,617	192,898	208,438	190,792	178,420	169,787	155,698	153,498

2-year institutions	743,856	744,998	771,890	815,692	906,931	996,294	984,418	967,182	960,975	955,889	923,626	905,105

Certificate	431,125	435,142	456,303	495,305	574,567	626,579	590,232	580,997	578,236	574,135	553,407	544,058
Associate's degree	312,731	309,856	315,587	320,387	332,364	369,715	394,186	386,185	382,739	381,754	370,219	361,047

Less-than-2-year institutions	225,946	222,108	218,045	224,374	255,995	276,002	261,733	239,881	229,298	211,359	187,792	182,583

Certificate	225,894	222,105	217,926	224,352	255,918	276,002	261,698	239,879	229,242	211,307	187,771	182,526
Associate's degree	52	3	119	22	77	0	35	2	56	52	21	57

Control of institution

Public institutions	641,643	657,697	674,809	705,090	760,329	822,226	843,361	864,596	893,590	918,496	927,347	933,161

Certificate	358,137	373,060	383,525	405,714	443,109	478,546	475,053	493,448	517,521	536,486	540,555	543,300
Associate's degree	283,506	284,637	291,284	299,376	317,220	343,680	368,308	371,148	376,069	382,010	386,792	389,861

Private nonprofit institutions	66,653	61,331	63,270	63,754	66,715	73,741	71,624	70,156	68,584	89,378	80,915	76,354

Certificate	30,898	28,253	28,842	27,910	31,461	33,586	30,245	28,224	28,073	43,403	37,553	32,711
Associate's degree	35,755	33,078	34,428	35,844	35,254	40,155	41,379	41,932	40,511	45,975	43,362	43,643

Private for-profit institutions	401,223	407,536	427,270	470,644	570,735	648,334	617,680	550,114	503,345	432,723	377,455	358,343

Certificate	303,731	300,839	310,189	338,612	423,151	469,556	424,708	386,215	358,710	309,115	281,671	277,245
Associate's degree	97,492	106,697	117,081	132,032	147,584	178,778	192,972	163,899	144,635	123,608	95,784	81,098

NOTE: Title IV institutions are those with a written agreement with the U.S. Department of Education that allows the institution to participate in any of the Title IV federal student financial assistance programs. The four U.S. service academies that are not Title IV eligible are included in the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) universe and in this table because they are federally funded and open to the public. For all years, the occupational education fields of study are based on the 2010 Classification of Instructional Programs (CIP), and are defined here as: agriculture and natural resources; business and marketing; communication and communication technologies; computer and information sciences; consumer services; engineering, architecture, and science technologies; health sciences; manufacturing, construction, repair, and transportation; protective services; and public, legal, and social services. See https://nces.ed.gov/surveys/ctes/tables/postsec_tax.asp for the taxonomy linking CIP codes and fields of study. Credential counts are based on the Completions file reference year, which is the year prior to the data collection year (e.g., 2016–17 for collection year 2017–18). Because of changes to institutional characteristics between the reference year and collection year, institutions may report awards that are not consistent with their current levels of offering (e.g., two-year institutions in the collection year may report awarding bachelor’s degrees in the reference year, or less-than-2-year institutions in the collection year may report awarding associate’s degrees in the reference year).

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Institutional Characteristics (IC) and Completions components, 2006–07 through 2017–18.

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