2005–06 |
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 |