Career and Technical Education (CTE) Statistics

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Table P206. Number and percentage distribution of associate's degrees awarded by Title IV postsecondary institutions, by field of study: United States, 2005–06 to 2016–17

Field of study	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 number, all associate's degrees	713,455	727,620	750,285	787,384	848,976	943,515	1,021,774	1,007,542	1,005,213	1,014,393	1,008,270	1,005,744

Academic education fields	296,702	303,208	307,478	320,132	348,918	380,902	419,115	430,563	443,998	462,800	482,332	491,142
Interdisciplinary studies	14,480	15,838	16,247	15,472	17,279	23,729	27,263	27,407	28,167	29,139	30,482	30,780
Languages, arts, and philosophy	24,388	23,067	21,822	21,963	23,162	25,584	26,856	26,855	26,141	26,111	25,749	25,679
Liberal arts/general studies	244,724	249,981	253,990	263,947	284,954	306,674	336,938	344,171	353,946	367,852	381,202	386,746
Science and mathematics	4,312	4,865	5,027	5,462	6,093	8,068	9,015	10,069	11,223	12,620	13,821	14,842
Social and behavioral sciences	8,798	9,457	10,392	13,288	17,430	16,847	19,043	22,061	24,521	27,078	31,078	33,095

Occupational education fields	416,753	424,412	442,793	467,252	500,058	562,613	602,659	576,979	561,215	551,593	525,938	514,602
Agriculture and natural resources	6,171	5,838	5,738	5,724	5,852	6,430	7,068	6,826	7,057	7,693	7,858	8,208
Business	96,978	100,019	104,631	111,524	116,804	121,735	123,014	114,845	113,056	113,687	110,043	108,376
Communication and communication technologies	6,025	5,677	6,888	7,527	7,259	7,260	8,499	9,327	9,683	10,662	11,328	11,686
Computer and information sciences	31,278	27,712	28,298	29,913	32,355	37,694	41,268	38,961	37,647	36,420	30,571	31,171
Consumer services	27,780	26,472	26,549	26,980	27,988	29,157	33,005	31,755	29,953	32,112	31,924	27,784
Engineering, architecture, and science technologies	35,064	33,999	34,479	35,398	37,378	41,701	43,813	41,251	40,005	41,081	37,002	37,917
Health sciences	135,194	145,146	155,900	165,037	177,364	202,922	219,494	214,095	208,910	200,064	191,456	186,369
Manufacturing, construction, repair, and transportation	21,772	22,951	23,344	23,978	25,282	30,323	31,883	30,989	30,943	30,819	31,554	32,927
Protective services	26,425	28,160	29,498	33,017	37,184	44,922	51,318	48,460	45,801	43,041	39,930	37,362
Public, legal, and social services	30,066	28,438	27,468	28,154	32,592	40,469	43,297	40,470	38,160	36,014	34,272	32,802

Unspecified fields	0	0	14	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0


Percentage distribution, all associate's degrees	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0	100.0

Academic education fields	41.6	41.7	41.0	40.7	41.1	40.4	41.0	42.7	44.2	45.6	47.8	48.8
Interdisciplinary studies	2.0	2.2	2.2	2.0	2.0	2.5	2.7	2.7	2.8	2.9	3.0	3.1
Languages, arts, and philosophy	3.4	3.2	2.9	2.8	2.7	2.7	2.6	2.7	2.6	2.6	2.6	2.6
Liberal arts/general studies¹	34.3	34.4	33.9	33.5	33.6	32.5	33.0	34.2	35.2	36.3	37.8	38.5
Science and mathematics	0.6	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.9	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.2	1.4	1.5
Social and behavioral sciences	1.2	1.3	1.4	1.7	2.1	1.8	1.9	2.2	2.4	2.7	3.1	3.3

Occupational education fields	58.4	58.3	59.0	59.3	58.9	59.6	59.0	57.3	55.8	54.4	52.2	51.2
Agriculture and natural resources	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.7	0.8	0.8	0.8
Business	13.6	13.7	13.9	14.2	13.8	12.9	12.0	11.4	11.2	11.2	10.9	10.8
Communication and communication technologies	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.0	0.9	0.8	0.8	0.9	1.0	1.1	1.1	1.2
Computer and information sciences	4.4	3.8	3.8	3.8	3.8	4.0	4.0	3.9	3.7	3.6	3.0	3.1
Consumer services	3.9	3.6	3.5	3.4	3.3	3.1	3.2	3.2	3.0	3.2	3.2	2.8
Engineering, architecture, and science technologies	4.9	4.7	4.6	4.5	4.4	4.4	4.3	4.1	4.0	4.0	3.7	3.8
Health sciences	18.9	19.9	20.8	21.0	20.9	21.5	21.5	21.2	20.8	19.7	19.0	18.5
Manufacturing, construction, repair, and transportation	3.1	3.2	3.1	3.0	3.0	3.2	3.1	3.1	3.1	3.0	3.1	3.3
Protective services	3.7	3.9	3.9	4.2	4.4	4.8	5.0	4.8	4.6	4.2	4.0	3.7
Public, legal, and social services	4.2	3.9	3.7	3.6	3.8	4.3	4.2	4.0	3.8	3.6	3.4	3.3

Unspecified fields	0.0	0.0	#	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

# Rounds to zero.

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, academic and occupational education fields of study are based on the 2010 Classification of Instructional Programs, and are defined here as the fields listed in the table. 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). Detail may not sum to totals because of rounding.

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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