Table 259.

Associate's degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by field of study: 1994–95 through 2005-06

Field of study	1994–95	1995–96	1996–97	1997–98	1998–99	1999–2000	2000–01	2001–02	2002–031	2003–04	2004–05	2005–06
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13
Total	539,691	555,216	571,226	558,555	559,954	564,933	578,865	595,133	634,016	665,301	696,660	713,066
Agriculture and natural resources, total	5,730	6,182	6,463	6,673	6,632	6,666	6,649	6,494	6,210	6,283	6,404	6,168
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences	4,393	4,723	5,021	5,206	5,220	5,292	5,200	5,125	4,892	4,959	5,137	4,958
Natural resources and conservation	1,337	1,459	1,442	1,467	1,412	1,374	1,449	1,369	1,318	1,324	1,267	1,210
Architecture and related services	277	256	316	265	405	392	417	443	440	492	583	656
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	68	110	82	97	85	113	73	94	120	105	115	124
Biological and biomedical sciences	1,861	2,049	2,133	2,113	2,213	1,448	1,443	1,534	1,496	1,456	1,709	1,827
Business, management, and marketing	89,162	90,945	92,228	87,672	86,964	86,106	87,059	86,713	89,627	92,065	96,067	96,933
Accounting	14,970	15,926	16,017	14,807	14,325	13,562	13,158	12,315	13,229	14,506	13,988	13,620
Business, general	11,622	11,397	11,385	11,311	11,514	12,283	12,621	12,936	13,054	13,387	12,050	13,297
Business administration and management	28,967	28,901	29,804	28,793	28,615	28,486	28,947	30,268	33,112	33,652	42,979	43,868
Business and management, other	11,232	15,910	15,197	14,148	14,027	13,398	13,122	13,269	13,108	14,909	13,042	13,925
Management information systems	3,884	4,539	4,936	4,261	4,526	5,394	6,016	6,417	5,600	4,214	2,812	2,179
Secretarial and related programs	18,487	14,272	14,889	14,352	13,957	12,983	13,195	11,508	11,524	11,397	11,196	10,044
Communications	3,160	2,187	2,030	2,368	2,639	2,754	2,949	2,819	2,589	2,444	2,545	2,629
Communications technologies	3,035	2,807	2,863	2,642	2,528	2,625	3,038	3,006	3,304	3,401	3,516	3,380
Computer and information sciences	12,230	12,500	14,607	18,185	22,445	28,185	34,356	40,127	46,234	41,845	36,173	31,246
Construction trades	1,728	2,141	1,928	2,172	2,137	2,337	2,682	2,639	3,009	3,560	3,512	3,850
Education	9,691	9,809	10,587	9,461	10,165	8,510	9,533	9,611	11,205	12,465	13,329	14,475
Engineering	2,191	2,158	1,921	2,118	2,012	1,722	1,795	1,691	2,177	2,737	2,441	2,162
Engineering-related technologies	41,438	40,447	41,349	40,784	42,362	43,732	42,366	40,217	39,998	36,915	33,548	30,461
English language and literature/letters	895	813	892	1,035	1,032	947	877	864	896	828	995	1,105
Family and consumer sciences	7,234	7,651	7,998	7,811	8,063	8,031	8,329	9,208	9,496	9,478	9,707	9,488
Foreign languages and literatures	1,694	1,612	1,768	1,674	1,705	1,059	1,100	1,085	1,050	1,047	1,234	1,161
Health professions and related sciences	100,714	104,775	102,077	94,940	93,218	86,676	84,656	82,361	90,716	106,208	122,520	134,931
Dental assisting	4,312	4,564	4,866	4,904	6,628	5,569	5,193	5,223	5,498	5,652	5,813	6,085
Emergency medical technician-ambulance and paramedic	771	889	1,048	975	918	1,152	1,134	1,203	1,410	1,617	1,825	1,980
Medical lab technician	2,769	2,982	2,641	2,370	2,033	1,644	1,502	1,384	1,496	1,678	1,932	2,030
Medical assisting	3,544	4,941	5,019	5,102	5,358	5,414	5,863	4,748	5,859	8,499	10,411	12,367
Nursing assisting	2	7	13	23	12	7	2	0	8	4	38	101
Practical nursing	772	605	429	499	447	575	619	814	916	1,049	1,388	1,481
Nursing, R.N. and other	57,456	56,469	52,983	47,329	43,029	40,767	40,278	40,800	45,117	51,552	58,007	62,095
Health sciences, other	31,088	34,318	35,078	33,738	34,793	31,548	30,065	28,189	30,412	36,157	43,106	48,792
Legal professions and studies	11,147	11,916	11,242	9,890	9,133	8,842	8,119	7,815	8,412	9,466	9,885	10,509
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	170,817	174,970	181,341	186,248	181,977	187,454	196,843	207,163	217,361	227,650	240,131	244,689
Library science	101	94	126	96	86	98	103	96	87	114	108	136
Mathematics	782	758	792	844	823	675	695	685	732	801	807	753
Mechanics and repairers	11,503	12,519	12,126	10,576	10,781	11,678	12,689	12,063	12,028	12,553	13,619	14,454
Military technologies	364	556	556	22	42	65	120	62	85	293	355	610
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	8,719	8,619	9,182	9,402	8,661	11,784	10,439	13,205	14,067	14,794	13,888	14,473
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	829	897	885	840	819	819	790	764	805	923	966	1,128
Personal and culinary services	5,627	7,720	8,172	7,648	8,933	9,203	9,786	9,325	12,607	14,239	16,311	17,162
Philosophy and religion	81	84	91	101	297	209	299	359	379	404	422	367
Physical sciences and science technologies	2,456	2,612	2,526	2,286	2,399	2,460	2,337	2,308	2,190	2,676	2,814	2,902
Physical sciences	1,645	1,749	1,728	1,584	1,679	1,350	1,207	1,346	1,141	1,588	1,626	1,733
Science technologies	811	863	798	702	720	1,110	1,130	962	1,049	1,088	1,188	1,169
Precision production trades	1,601	1,727	1,773	1,929	2,201	2,308	2,256	2,260	2,287	1,968	2,039	1,977
Psychology	1,600	1,583	1,612	1,765	1,625	1,455	1,554	1,705	1,785	1,887	1,942	1,944
Public administration and social services	3,882	4,218	4,270	4,156	3,881	3,656	3,333	3,323	3,534	3,728	4,027	4,415
Security and protective services	19,709	19,196	19,889	19,002	17,430	16,298	16,425	16,689	18,614	20,573	23,749	26,425
Criminal justice and corrections	16,584	15,990	16,644	15,915	14,448	13,487	13,589	13,603	15,155	17,040	19,942	22,351
Fire control and safety	2,447	2,523	2,638	2,480	2,395	2,364	2,346	2,619	2,941	3,012	3,366	3,554
Security and protective services, other	678	683	607	607	587	447	490	467	518	521	441	520
Social sciences and history	3,634	4,021	4,056	4,196	4,550	5,136	5,132	5,593	5,720	6,245	6,533	6,730
Social sciences	3,349	3,727	3,741	3,910	4,254	4,812	4,877	5,304	5,404	5,875	6,233	6,308
History	285	294	315	286	296	324	255	289	316	370	300	422
Theology and religious vocations	607	608	574	570	476	636	576	414	425	492	581	570
Transportation and material moving workers	1,434	1,551	1,572	977	1,101	956	1,028	1,122	1,211	1,217	1,435	1,472
Visual and performing arts	12,544	13,534	13,593	14,980	17,640	17,100	18,435	20,911	23,120	23,949	22,650	21,754
Fine arts, general	1,420	1,515	1,516	1,281	3,029	1,314	1,435	1,521	1,763	1,326	1,623	1,651
Design and music	9,805	10,579	10,459	11,591	12,026	12,780	14,410	16,388	18,342	18,836	17,482	16,387
Visual and performing arts, other	1,319	1,440	1,618	2,108	2,585	3,006	2,590	3,002	3,015	3,787	3,545	3,716
Not classified by field of study	1,146	1,591	7,606	3,017	2,494	2,798	584	365	0	0	0	0

1 Data have been revised from previously published figures. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 1994–95 through 2005–06 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, "Completions Survey" (IPEDS-C:94–99), and Fall 2000 through Fall 2006. (This table was prepared June 2007.)