| Table 258. | Number of degree-granting institutions conferring degrees, by control, level of degree, and discipline division: 2001-02 |
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| Total number of institutions | Public institutions | Private institutions
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Discipline division |Associate |Bachelor's |Master's |Doctor's |Associate |Bachelor's |Master's |Doctor's |Associate |Bachelor's |Master's |Doctor's
| degrees | degrees | degrees | degrees | degrees | degrees | degrees | degrees | degrees | degrees | degrees | degrees
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13
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Total ....................................| 2,581| 2,035| 1,514| 539| 1,308| 590| 503| 235| 1,273| 1,445| 1,011| 304
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Agricultural business and production .......| 350| 124| 58| 31| 336| 95| 56| 31| 14| 29| 2| 0
Agricultural sciences ......................| 97| 131| 79| 50| 93| 115| 75| 50| 4| 16| 4| 0
Architecture and related programs ..........| 43| 175| 127| 29| 37| 110| 89| 21| 6| 65| 38| 8
Area, ethnic, and cultural studies .........| 40| 406| 124| 40| 33| 193| 75| 22| 7| 213| 49| 18
Biological sciences/life sciences ..........| 192| 1,274| 436| 220| 175| 486| 311| 149| 17| 788| 125| 71
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Business management and administrative | | | | | | | | | | | |
services .................................| 1,787| 1,530| 898| 129| 1,166| 531| 379| 84| 621| 999| 519| 45
Communications .............................| 226| 979| 247| 54| 179| 393| 169| 43| 47| 586| 78| 11
Communications technologies ................| 195| 47| 15| 2| 173| 19| 3| 0| 22| 28| 12| 2
Computer and information sciences ..........| 1,092| 1,224| 390| 120| 636| 466| 240| 78| 456| 758| 150| 42
Conservation and renewable natural | | | | | | | | | | | |
resources ................................| 149| 425| 147| 54| 137| 193| 112| 49| 12| 232| 35| 5
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Consumer and personal services .............| 308| 21| 1| 0| 236| 9| 0| 0| 72| 12| 1| 0
Construction trades ........................| 219| 12| 1| 0| 206| 6| 0| 0| 13| 6| 1| 0
Education ..................................| 441| 1,154| 965| 258| 361| 429| 439| 169| 80| 725| 526| 89
Engineering ................................| 259| 417| 284| 183| 236| 234| 187| 134| 23| 183| 97| 49
Engineering-related technologies ...........| 1,051| 307| 72| 4| 812| 211| 61| 3| 239| 96| 11| 1
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English language and literature/letters ....| 137| 1,265| 448| 143| 128| 490| 311| 98| 9| 775| 137| 45
Foreign languages and literatures ..........| 77| 869| 198| 90| 74| 389| 148| 59| 3| 480| 50| 31
Health professions and related sciences ....| 1,442| 1,020| 703| 179| 1,020| 444| 339| 116| 422| 576| 364| 63
Home economics .............................| 105| 317| 183| 45| 85| 209| 121| 35| 20| 108| 62| 10
Law and legal studies ......................| 540| 167| 89| 19| 340| 51| 35| 4| 200| 116| 54| 15
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Liberal arts and sciences, general | | | | | | | | | | | |
studies, and humanities ..................| 1,341| 821| 178| 17| 1,044| 342| 94| 6| 297| 479| 84| 11
Library science ............................| 26| 11| 75| 15| 25| 10| 59| 14| 1| 1| 16| 1
Marketing operations/marketing and | | | | | | | | | | | |
distribution .............................| 367| 149| 19| 2| 302| 55| 4| 1| 65| 94| 15| 1
Mathematics ................................| 143| 1,125| 323| 149| 137| 471| 245| 105| 6| 654| 78| 44
Mechanics and repairers ....................| 619| 9| 0| 0| 564| 5| 0| 0| 55| 4| 0| 0
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Multi/interdisciplinary studies ............| 253| 678| 239| 66| 234| 274| 151| 41| 19| 404| 88| 25
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness | | | | | | | | | | | |
studies ..................................| 149| 665| 176| 37| 133| 288| 139| 34| 16| 377| 37| 3
Philosophy and religion ....................| 33| 871| 188| 98| 19| 294| 85| 50| 14| 577| 103| 48
Physical sciences ..........................| 158| 1,049| 339| 205| 148| 466| 246| 138| 10| 583| 93| 67
Precision production trades ................| 734| 37| 1| 0| 595| 25| 0| 0| 139| 12| 1| 0
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Protective services ........................| 877| 548| 156| 14| 771| 276| 108| 11| 106| 272| 48| 3
Psychology .................................| 176| 1,295| 607| 266| 148| 483| 316| 134| 28| 812| 291| 132
Public administration and services .........| 279| 675| 383| 91| 249| 304| 255| 58| 30| 371| 128| 33
R.O.T.C. and military technologies .........| 2| 1| 0| 0| 2| 1| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0| 0
Science technologies .......................| 129| 21| 6| 1| 120| 13| 5| 1| 9| 8| 1| 0
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Social sciences and history ................| 244| 1,298| 422| 180| 211| 495| 296| 119| 33| 803| 126| 61
Theological studies/religious vocations ....| 74| 369| 272| 107| 0| 0| 0| 0| 74| 369| 272| 107
Transportation and material moving | | | | | | | | | | | |
workers ..................................| 106| 69| 8| 0| 90| 37| 3| 0| 16| 32| 5| 0
Visual and performing arts .................| 656| 1,283| 387| 101| 472| 459| 241| 67| 184| 824| 146| 34
Vocational home economics ..................| 626| 25| 3| 0| 603| 12| 2| 0| 23| 13| 1| 0
Not classified by field of study ...........| 8| 17| 3| 0| 5| 0| 0| 0| 3| 17| 3| 0
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| NOTE: Doctor's degrees include 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. Data represent programs, not organizational units within institutions. Details in each column do not sum to totals, because each institution can be counted in more than one row. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2002 survey. (This table was prepared August 2003.)
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