Table 320.12.

Certificates below the associate's degree level conferred by public less-than-2-year postsecondary institutions, by length of curriculum, sex of student, and discipline division: 2013-14

Discipline division	Total, all certificates	Less-than-1-year certificates			1- to less-than-4-year certificates
		Total	Male	Female	Total	Male	Female
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8
Total	32,303	15,097	8,110	6,987	17,206	5,617	11,589
Agriculture and natural resources	87	28	25	3	59	29	30
Agriculture, agriculture operations, and related sciences       related sciences	87	28	25	3	59	29	30
Natural resources and conservation	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Architecture and related services	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Area, ethnic, cultural, gender, and group studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Biological and biomedical sciences	34	9	5	4	25	12	13
Business, management, marketing, and support services	1,249	703	204	499	546	139	407
Accounting and related services	201	70	15	55	131	37	94
Business/commerce, general	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Business administration, management, and operations	41	12	2	10	29	6	23
Management information systems and services	70	13	0	13	57	19	38
Business operations support and assistant services	659	400	80	320	259	44	215
Business and management, other	278	208	107	101	70	33	37
Communication, journalism, and related programs	47	26	11	15	21	14	7
Communications technologies	166	70	44	26	96	63	33
Computer and information sciences and support services	629	198	155	43	431	325	106
Construction trades	2,364	1,706	1,661	45	658	633	25
Education	52	40	1	39	12	0	12
Engineering	22	0	0	0	22	18	4
Engineering technologies and engineering-related fields1	1,213	812	762	50	401	375	26
English language and literature/letters	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Family and consumer sciences/human sciences	605	436	103	333	169	6	163
Foreign languages, literatures, and linguistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Health professions and related programs	16,461	6,473	1,326	5,147	9,988	1,115	8,873
Dental assisting	581	277	17	260	304	15	289
Emergency medical technician (EMT paramedic)	723	554	383	171	169	133	36
Clinical/medical lab science	335	328	63	265	7	0	7
Medical assisting	958	388	30	358	570	37	533
Pharmacy assisting	403	312	88	224	91	26	65
Other allied health assisting	647	443	224	219	204	24	180
Nursing and patient care assistant	2,701	2,523	309	2,214	178	18	160
Practical nursing	7,704	199	22	177	7,505	752	6,753
Nursing, registered nurse and other	14	0	0	0	14	0	14
Health sciences, other	2,395	1,449	190	1,259	946	110	836
Homeland security, law enforcement, and firefighting	1,219	1,195	1,039	156	24	20	4
Criminal justice and corrections	487	463	384	79	24	20	4
Fire control and safety	678	678	607	71	0	0	0
Homeland security and related protective services, other	54	54	48	6	0	0	0
Legal professions and studies	47	21	3	18	26	2	24
Liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities       and humanities	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Library science	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mathematics and statistics	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians	2,703	1,051	1,017	34	1,652	1,580	72
Military technologies and applied sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Multi/interdisciplinary studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Parks, recreation, leisure, and fitness studies       studies	4	0	0	0	4	4	0
Personal and culinary services	2,623	582	124	458	2,041	374	1,667
Philosophy and religious studies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences and science technologies	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Physical sciences	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Science technologies/technicians	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Precision production	1,726	848	815	33	878	851	27
Psychology	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Public administration and social services	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Social sciences and history	8	8	5	3	0	0	0
Social sciences	8	8	5	3	0	0	0
History	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Theology and religious vocations	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Transportation and materials moving	845	816	764	52	29	28	1
Visual and performing arts	199	75	46	29	124	29	95
Fine and studio arts	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Music and dance	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Visual and performing arts, other2	199	75	46	29	124	29	95

1 Excludes "Construction trades" and "Mechanic and repair technologies/technicians," which are listed separately.

2 Includes design and applied arts, drama and theatre arts, film and photographic arts, and all other arts not included under "Fine and studio arts" or "Music and dance."

NOTE: Data are for public less-than-2-year postsecondary institutions participating in Title IV federal financial aid programs.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2014, Completions component. (This table was prepared May 2016.)