Career Clusters: Sub-baccalaureate Certificate Recipients

The top four career clusters among all certificate completers were health science (32.6 percent); human services (12.7 percent); manufacturing (9.3 percent); and transportation, distribution, and logistics (8.6 percent). Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander, Hispanic or Latino, and Black or African American students were the most likely of all groups to earn their sub-baccalaureate certificates in the health science career cluster.

Sub-baccalaureate Certificate Completions in Health Science, by Race and Ethnicity: 2015 to 2017
Sub-baccalaureate Certificate Completions in Human Services, by Race and Ethnicity: 2015 to 2017
Sub-baccalaureate Certificate Completions in Manufacturing, by Race and Ethnicity: 2015 to 2017
Sub-baccalaureate Certificate Completions in Transportation, Distribution, and Logistics, by Race and Ethnicity: 2015 to 2017

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Race and Ethnicity in Higher Education: 2020 Supplement
Chapter Four: Postsecondary Career and Technical Education

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Source

U.S. Department of Education, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, 2015, 2016, 2017

Notes:
Data reflect sub-baccalaureate certificates earned at all Title IV eligible, degree-granting and non-degree-granting institutions, pooled for 2015, 2016, and 2017.

The National Career Clusters Framework organizes educational delivery within 16 Career Clusters. Instructional programs were mapped to career clusters using the Perkins IV Crosswalk Table 1 mapping 2010 CIP codes to Career Clusters.