First-professional degrees conferred by institutions of higher education, by racial/ethnic group, major field of study, and sex of student: 1996-97

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                              |                            Total                        |                               Men                       |                          Women
                              |_________________________________________________________|_________________________________________________________|_________________________________________________________
                              |       | White, |Black,|      | Asian/ |American|        |       | White, |Black,|      | Asian/ |American|        |       | White, |Black,|      | Asian/ |American|
     Major field of study     | Total |  non-  | non- | His- |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-| Total |  non-  | non- | His- |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-| Total |  non-  | non- | His- |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-
                              |       |Hispanic| His- |panic |Islander|Alaskan |  dent  |       |Hispanic| His- |panic |Islander|Alaskan |  dent  |       |Hispanic| His- |panic |Islander|Alaskan |  dent
                              |       |        |panic |      |        | Native | alien  |       |        |panic |      |        | Native | alien  |       |        |panic |      |        | Native | alien
______________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________
              1               |   2   |   3    |  4   |  5   |   6    |   7    |   8    |   9   |   10   |  11  |  12  |   13   |   14   |   15   |  16   |   17   |  18  |  19  |   20   |   21   |   22
______________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________
  All fields\1\ ..............|77,815 | 59,852 |5,251 |3,553 |  7,037 |    511 |  1,611 |45,067 | 35,749 |2,178 |1,951 |  3,798 |    289 |  1,102 |32,748 | 24,103 |3,073 |1,602 |  3,239 |    222 |    509
                              |_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) .| 3,784 |  2,498 |  190 |  185 |    659 |     19 |    233 | 2,387 |  1,701 |   75 |   95 |    355 |     12 |    149 | 1,397 |    797 |  115 |   90 |    304 |      7 |     84
Medicine (M.D.) ..............|15,571 | 11,095 |1,123 |  703 |  2,377 |    111 |    162 | 9,121 |  6,741 |  429 |  398 |  1,378 |     70 |    105 | 6,450 |  4,354 |  694 |  305 |    999 |     41 |     57
Optometry (O.D.) .............| 1,264 |    929 |   31 |   41 |    198 |      5 |     60 |   591 |    482 |    6 |   17 |     53 |      1 |     32 |   673 |    447 |   25 |   24 |    145 |      4 |     28
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) ..| 2,011 |  1,676 |   72 |   50 |    181 |     17 |     15 | 1,297 |  1,091 |   35 |   32 |    120 |     11 |      8 |   714 |    585 |   37 |   18 |     61 |      6 |      7
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) ..........| 2,708 |  1,829 |  265 |   58 |    466 |     12 |     78 |   961 |    709 |   67 |   18 |    126 |      9 |     32 | 1,747 |  1,120 |  198 |   40 |    340 |      3 |     46
                              |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
 podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) .|   614 |    473 |   27 |   24 |     65 |      3 |     22 |   423 |    339 |    9 |   19 |     41 |      2 |     13 |   191 |    134 |   18 |    5 |     24 |      1 |      9
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) .| 2,188 |  1,988 |   54 |   71 |     45 |     14 |     16 |   731 |    657 |   23 |   25 |     16 |      5 |      5 | 1,457 |  1,331 |   31 |   46 |     29 |      9 |     11
Chiropractic medicine (D.C.   |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
 or D.C.M.) ..................| 3,654 |  2,986 |   62 |   90 |    196 |     18 |    302 | 2,658 |  2,165 |   37 |   60 |    139 |     12 |    245 |   996 |    821 |   25 |   30 |     57 |      6 |     57
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) ..........|40,079 | 31,672 |2,951 |2,211 |  2,534 |    298 |    413 |22,548 | 18,445 |1,205 |1,198 |  1,298 |    158 |    244 |17,531 | 13,227 |1,746 |1,013 |  1,236 |    140 |    169
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D.|       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
 or Ord.) ....................| 5,859 |  4,632 |  472 |  120 |    311 |     14 |    310 | 4,323 |  3,394 |  292 |   89 |    270 |      9 |    269 | 1,536 |  1,238 |  180 |   31 |     41 |      5 |     41
Other ........................|    83 |     74 |    4 |    0 |      5 |      0 |      0 |    27 |     25 |    0 |    0 |      2 |      0 |      0 |    56 |     49 |    4 |    0 |      3 |      0 |      0
______________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________

\1\Reported racial/ethnic distributions of students by level of degree, field of degree, and sex were used to estimate race/ethnicity for students whose race/ethnicity was not reported. Excludes 497 men and 418 women whose racial/ethnic group and field of study were not available.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Completions" survey. (This table was prepared August 1999.)

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