The certificates, which take less than a year to complete, make up a growing proportion of community-colleges’ sub-baccalaureate credentials.
Madeline Joy Trimble, of the Community College Research Center at Columbia University’s Teachers College, and Mina Dadgar, of the Career Ladders Project, analyzed data from the Education Department's Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System, or Ipeds. The figures below are based on public, degree-offering, primarily postsecondary, Title IV-eligible institutions, where at least 90 percent of credentials awarded were awarded at the sub-baccalaureate level.