Table 253.

Associate's degrees and other subbaccalaureate awards conferred by degree-granting institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, and field of study: 2004–05

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	220,502	96,344	124,158	181,212	71,158	110,054	696,660	267,536	429,124
Agriculture and natural resources, total	3,044	2,137	907	1,759	1,090	669	6,404	4,009	2,395
Agriculture, agriculture operations and related sciences	2,259	1,408	851	1,679	1,030	649	5,137	3,020	2,117
Natural resources and conservation	785	729	56	80	60	20	1,267	989	278
Architecture and related services	162	88	74	171	55	116	583	237	346
Area, ethnic, cultural, and gender studies	352	95	257	105	28	77	115	38	77
Biological and biomedical sciences	36	4	32	20	4	16	1,709	548	1,161
Business, management, and marketing	25,827	8,198	17,629	17,573	4,119	13,454	96,067	30,262	65,805
Accounting	3,662	685	2,977	3,491	654	2,837	13,988	2,879	11,109
Business, general	876	535	341	1,013	391	622	12,050	4,526	7,524
Business administration and management	5,906	2,185	3,721	3,741	1,496	2,245	42,979	16,808	26,171
Business and management, other	7,325	2,922	4,403	2,577	896	1,681	13,042	3,532	9,510
Management information systems	453	295	158	514	272	242	2,812	1,606	1,206
Secretarial and related programs	7,605	1,576	6,029	6,237	410	5,827	11,196	911	10,285
Communications	463	186	277	393	223	170	2,545	1,254	1,291
Communications technologies	657	348	309	856	493	363	3,516	2,039	1,477
Computer and information sciences	10,865	6,709	4,156	7,665	4,722	2,943	36,173	25,552	10,621
Construction trades	5,691	5,370	321	7,711	7,421	290	3,512	3,308	204
Education	2,976	329	2,647	1,882	147	1,735	13,329	2,188	11,141
Engineering	94	69	25	69	60	9	2,441	2,078	363
Engineering-related technologies	7,583	6,372	1,211	7,072	6,148	924	33,548	28,675	4,873
English language and literature/letters	572	180	392	106	38	68	995	313	682
Family and consumer sciences	10,636	1,722	8,914	3,586	670	2,916	9,707	446	9,261
Foreign languages and literatures	687	149	538	391	47	344	1,234	197	1,037
Health professions and related sciences	86,875	17,503	69,372	77,688	9,952	67,736	122,520	17,097	105,423
Dental assisting	2,309	156	2,153	5,210	236	4,974	5,813	190	5,623
Emergency medical technician-ambulance and paramedic	12,318	8,401	3,917	2,534	1,876	658	1,825	1,242	583
Medical lab technician	153	12	141	373	164	209	1,932	414	1,518
Medical assisting	11,471	830	10,641	12,170	598	11,572	10,411	564	9,847
Nursing assisting	23,200	2,379	20,821	267	19	248	38	3	35
Practical nursing	1,747	159	1,588	26,905	2,664	24,241	1,388	143	1,245
Nursing, R.N. and other	2,827	247	2,580	3,151	368	2,783	58,007	6,553	51,454
Health sciences, other	32,850	5,319	27,531	27,078	4,027	23,051	43,106	7,988	35,118
Legal professions and studies	1,799	236	1,563	2,793	391	2,402	9,885	955	8,930
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities	322	95	227	2,799	931	1,868	240,131	87,845	152,286
Library science	196	17	179	53	12	41	108	11	97
Mathematics	14	7	7	6	4	2	807	529	278
Mechanics and repairers	14,305	13,221	1,084	21,842	20,983	859	13,619	12,901	718
Military technologies	190	130	60	0	0	0	355	303	52
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	513	219	294	412	96	316	13,888	5,878	8,010
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies	391	208	183	193	92	101	966	581	385
Personal and culinary services	6,172	1,562	4,610	9,934	2,016	7,918	16,311	8,903	7,408
Philosophy and religion	18	6	12	85	42	43	422	122	300
Physical sciences and science technologies	221	126	95	300	149	151	2,814	1,647	1,167
Physical sciences	26	15	11	9	5	4	1,626	974	652
Science technologies	195	111	84	291	144	147	1,188	673	515
Precision production trades	5,071	4,811	260	4,888	4,664	224	2,039	1,877	162
Psychology	134	26	108	36	4	32	1,942	445	1,497
Public administration and social services	769	114	655	478	87	391	4,027	571	3,456
Security and protective services	19,675	14,958	4,717	5,575	4,001	1,574	23,749	13,360	10,389
Criminal justice and corrections	14,397	10,057	4,340	4,193	2,746	1,447	19,942	10,044	9,898
Fire control and safety	5,098	4,792	306	1,238	1,173	65	3,366	3,099	267
Security and protective services, other	180	109	71	144	82	62	441	217	224
Social sciences and history	263	125	138	180	107	73	6,533	2,191	4,342
Social sciences	263	125	138	178	107	71	6,233	2,017	4,216
History	0	0	0	2	0	2	300	174	126
Theology and religious vocations	59	24	35	438	198	240	581	270	311
Transportation and material moving workers	11,918	10,034	1,884	790	706	84	1,435	1,241	194
Visual and performing arts	1,952	966	986	3,363	1,458	1,905	22,650	9,665	12,985
Fine arts, general	63	20	43	113	41	72	1,623	538	1,085
Design and music	1,443	740	703	2,868	1,218	1,650	17,482	7,263	10,219
Visual and performing arts, other	446	206	240	382	199	183	3,545	1,864	1,681

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2005. (This table was prepared July 2006.)