Table 260.

Associate's degrees and other subbaccalaureate awards conferred by degree-granting institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, and field of study: 2005-06

Field of study	Less-than-1-year awards			1- to less-than-4-year awards			Associate's degrees
	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females	Total	Males	Females
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10
Total	228,999	99,944	129,055	183,600	70,989	112,611	713,066	270,095	442,971
Agriculture and natural resources, total	3,252	2,341	911	1,886	1,195	691	6,168	3,792	2,376
Agriculture, agriculture operations and related sciences	2,500	1,666	834	1,818	1,150	668	4,958	2,877	2,081
Natural resources and conservation	752	675	77	68	45	23	1,210	915	295
Architecture and related services	161	99	62	173	45	128	656	247	409
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	407	85	322	114	19	95	124	37	87
Biological and biomedical sciences	104	22	82	24	11	13	1,827	626	1,201
Business, management, and marketing	29,137	9,389	19,748	16,406	3,831	12,575	96,933	30,872	66,061
Accounting	3,757	712	3,045	3,458	647	2,811	13,620	2,858	10,762
Business, general	1,121	674	447	878	356	522	13,297	5,083	8,214
Business administration and management	6,519	2,465	4,054	3,312	1,197	2,115	43,868	16,446	27,422
Business and management, other	8,614	3,337	5,277	2,531	981	1,550	13,925	4,467	9,458
Management information systems	415	254	161	352	216	136	2,179	1,293	886
Secretarial and related programs	8,711	1,947	6,764	5,875	434	5,441	10,044	725	9,319
Communications	525	264	261	415	245	170	2,629	1,316	1,313
Communications technologies	593	371	222	806	501	305	3,380	2,036	1,344
Computer and information sciences	9,277	5,833	3,444	5,799	3,603	2,196	31,246	22,464	8,782
Construction trades	7,750	7,353	397	7,389	7,082	307	3,850	3,633	217
Education	3,016	412	2,604	2,150	193	1,957	14,475	2,232	12,243
Engineering	87	62	25	65	55	10	2,162	1,861	301
Engineering-related technologies	6,899	5,807	1,092	6,334	5,455	879	30,461	25,982	4,479
English language and literature/letters	559	185	374	79	23	56	1,105	370	735
Family and consumer sciences	11,485	1,816	9,669	3,743	711	3,032	9,488	418	9,070
Foreign languages and literatures	835	233	602	455	30	425	1,161	216	945
Health professions and related sciences	89,285	17,240	72,045	81,176	10,563	70,613	134,931	19,668	115,263
Dental assisting	2,726	130	2,596	5,172	299	4,873	6,085	254	5,831
Emergency medical technician-ambulance and paramedic	12,251	8,362	3,889	2,725	2,085	640	1,980	1,344	636
Medical lab technician	168	12	156	522	276	246	2,030	447	1,583
Medical assisting	11,704	793	10,911	12,389	685	11,704	12,367	736	11,631
Nursing assisting	22,000	2,177	19,823	280	23	257	101	12	89
Practical nursing	3,526	339	3,187	28,776	2,890	25,886	1,481	149	1,332
Nursing, R.N. and other	2,153	230	1,923	3,393	370	3,023	62,095	7,522	54,573
Health sciences, other	34,757	5,197	29,560	27,919	3,935	23,984	48,792	9,204	39,588
Legal professions and studies	1,653	200	1,453	2,466	327	2,139	10,509	1,093	9,416
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	390	103	287	3,490	1,279	2,211	244,689	89,955	154,734
Library science	179	21	158	89	7	82	136	15	121
Mathematics	60	34	26	12	4	8	753	483	270
Mechanics and repairers	16,252	15,057	1,195	22,960	22,040	920	14,454	13,713	741
Military technologies	62	47	15	0	0	0	610	510	100
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	438	199	239	487	119	368	14,473	6,224	8,249
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	303	155	148	185	104	81	1,128	656	472
Personal and culinary services	5,991	1,500	4,491	9,743	1,706	8,037	17,162	9,264	7,898
Philosophy and religion	10	8	2	71	34	37	367	97	270
Physical sciences and science technologies	452	234	218	292	158	134	2,902	1,702	1,200
Physical sciences	167	71	96	13	8	5	1,733	1,027	706
Science technologies	285	163	122	279	150	129	1,169	675	494
Precision production trades	5,028	4,736	292	4,997	4,720	277	1,977	1,800	177
Psychology	90	25	65	31	1	30	1,944	446	1,498
Public administration and social services	823	125	698	519	118	401	4,415	642	3,773
Security and protective services	19,534	14,739	4,795	5,184	3,744	1,440	26,425	14,578	11,847
Criminal justice and corrections	14,556	10,115	4,441	4,060	2,735	1,325	22,351	11,017	11,334
Fire control and safety	4,775	4,501	274	961	912	49	3,554	3,290	264
Security and protective services, other	203	123	80	163	97	66	520	271	249
Social sciences and history	381	169	212	233	136	97	6,730	2,338	4,392
Social sciences	377	169	208	226	133	93	6,308	2,095	4,213
History	4	0	4	7	3	4	422	243	179
Theology and religious vocations	93	43	50	474	253	221	570	248	322
Transportation and material moving workers	11,313	9,604	1,709	1,046	929	117	1,472	1,268	204
Visual and performing arts	2,575	1,433	1,142	4,307	1,748	2,559	21,754	9,293	12,461
Fine arts, general	64	26	38	1,165	447	718	1,651	552	1,099
Design and music	2,017	1,171	846	2,758	1,091	1,667	16,387	6,709	9,678
Visual and performing arts, other	494	236	258	384	210	174	3,716	2,032	1,684

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2006. (This table was prepared May 2007.)