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Table 254. | Degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by control of institution, level of degree, and discipline division: 2003-04 |
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | Public institutions | Private institutions |__________________________________________|__________________________________________ |Associate's|Bachelor's|Master's| Doctor's|Associate's|Bachelor's|Master's| Doctor's Discipline division | degrees| degrees| degrees|degrees\1\| degrees| degrees| degrees|degrees\1\ __________________________________________________|___________|__________|________|__________|___________|__________|________|__________ 1 | 2| 3| 4| 5| 6| 7| 8| 9 __________________________________________________|___________|__________|________|__________|___________|__________|________|__________ All fields, total .............................| 524,875| 905,718| 285,138| 29,706| 140,426| 493,824| 273,802| 18,672 |___________|__________|________|__________|___________|__________|________|__________ Agriculture and natural resources ................| 5,989| 19,655| 4,095| 1,110| 294| 3,180| 688| 75 Architecture and related services ................| 446| 6,696| 3,404| 109| 46| 2,142| 2,020| 64 Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies .......| 100| 4,349| 1,000| 126| 5| 2,832| 683| 83 Biological and biomedical sciences ...............| 1,402| 41,295| 4,924| 3,556| 54| 20,214| 2,733| 1,686 Business .........................................| 67,583| 177,962| 52,399| 695| 38,721| 129,187| 86,948| 786 | | | | | | | | Communications, journalism, and related programs .| 1,808| 49,275| 3,337| 331| 636| 21,693| 3,198| 87 Communications technologies ......................| 2,505| 1,057| 86| 0| 896| 977| 279| 8 Computer and information sciences ................| 22,220| 30,202| 9,935| 549| 19,625| 29,286| 10,208| 360 Construction trades ..............................| 2,849| 109| 0| 0| 711| 10| 0| 0 Education ........................................| 11,070| 75,152| 83,978| 4,639| 1,395| 31,126| 78,367| 2,449 | | | | | | | | Engineering ......................................| 1,869| 48,593| 23,350| 4,294| 868| 14,965| 9,348| 1,629 Engineering technologies\2\ ......................| 21,689| 10,338| 1,445| 12| 15,226| 4,053| 1,054| 46 English language and literature/letters ..........| 817| 37,143| 5,585| 898| 11| 16,841| 2,371| 309 Family and consumer sciences .....................| 8,883| 16,278| 1,371| 228| 595| 2,894| 423| 101 Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics ..| 999| 11,966| 2,273| 672| 48| 5,788| 851| 359 | | | | | | | | Health professions and related clinical sciences .| 81,665| 48,560| 23,997| 2,266| 24,543| 25,374| 20,942| 2,095 Legal professions and studies ....................| 4,994| 1,717| 1,027| 24| 4,472| 1,124| 3,216| 95 Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, | | | | | | | | and humanities ................................| 218,520| 29,581| 1,812| 22| 9,130| 12,525| 1,885| 73 Library science ..................................| 113| 72| 4,863| 42| 1| 0| 1,152| 5 Mathematics and statistics .......................| 790| 8,651| 3,246| 689| 11| 4,676| 945| 371 | | | | | | | | Mechanics and repair technologies ................| 8,727| 123| 0| 0| 3,826| 36| 0| 0 Military technologies ............................| 293| 10| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0 Multi/interdisciplinary studies ..................| 14,587| 21,228| 2,535| 462| 207| 7,934| 1,512| 414 Parks, recreation, leisure and fitness studies ...| 782| 17,157| 2,564| 205| 141| 5,007| 635| 17 Philosophy and religious studies .................| 104| 4,682| 528| 249| 300| 6,470| 1,050| 346 | | | | | | | | Physical sciences and science technologies .......| 2,635| 11,939| 4,129| 2,697| 41| 6,044| 1,441| 1,118 Precision production .............................| 1,834| 22| 0| 0| 134| 39| 13| 0 Psychology .......................................| 1,778| 54,469| 7,319| 2,079| 109| 27,629| 10,579| 2,748 Public administration and social service | | | | | | | | professions ...................................| 3,441| 13,335| 17,749| 371| 287| 7,217| 10,501| 278 Security and protective services .................| 17,679| 20,495| 1,795| 51| 2,894| 7,680| 1,922| 3 | | | | | | | | Social sciences and history ......................| 6,046| 99,282| 9,857| 2,423| 199| 51,075| 6,253| 1,388 Social sciences ................................| 5,688| 80,043| 7,924| 1,860| 187| 40,506| 5,664| 1,096 History ........................................| 358| 19,239| 1,933| 563| 12| 10,569| 589| 292 Theology and religious vocations .................| 2| 4| 0| 0| 490| 8,122| 5,486| 1,304 Transportation and materials moving ..............| 825| 2,094| 88| 0| 392| 2,730| 640| 0 Visual and performing arts .......................| 9,831| 42,227| 6,447| 907| 14,118| 34,954| 6,459| 375 __________________________________________________|___________|__________|________|__________|___________|__________|________|__________ |
\1\Includes Ph.D., Ed.D., and comparable degrees at the doctoral level. Excludes first-professional degrees, such as M.D., D.D.S., and law degrees. \2\Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanics and repairers," which are listed separately. NOTE: To facilitate trend comparisons, certain aggregations have been made of the degree fields as reported in the IPEDS Fall survey: "Agriculture and natural resources" includes Agriculture, agriculture operations and related sciences and Natural resources and conservation; and "Business" includes Business management, marketing, and related support services and Personal and culinary services. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2003-04 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2004. (This table was prepared July 2005.)
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