First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions in dentistry, medicine, and law, by sex of student, and number of institutions conferring degrees: Selected years, 1949-50 through 2003-04

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Table 256.

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           | Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) |           Medicine (M.D.)      |        Law (LL.B. or J.D.)
           |______________________________|________________________________|________________________________
           | Number of|                   | Number of|                     | Number of|
           |    insti-|                   |    insti-|                     |    insti-|
           |   tutions| Degrees conferred |   tutions|  Degrees conferred  |   tutions|  Degrees conferred
           |conferring|___________________|conferring|_____________________|conferring|_____________________
Year       |   degrees|Total|Males|Females|   degrees| Total| Males|Females|   degrees| Total| Males|Females
___________|__________|_____|_____|_______|__________|______|______|_______|__________|______|______|_______
1          |         2|    3|    4|      5|         6|     7|     8|      9|        10|    11|    12|    13
___________|__________|_____|_____|_______|__________|______|______|_______|__________|______|______|_______
1949-50 ...|        40|2,579|2,561|     18|        72| 5,612| 5,028|    584|      --- |  --- |  --- |  ---
1951-52 ...|        41|2,918|2,895|     23|        72| 6,201| 5,871|    330|      --- |  --- |  --- |  ---
1953-54 ...|        42|3,102|3,063|     39|        73| 6,712| 6,377|    335|      --- |  --- |  --- |  ---
1955-56 ...|        42|3,009|2,975|     34|        73| 6,810| 6,464|    346|       131| 8,262| 7,974|   288
1957-58 ...|        43|3,065|3,031|     34|        75| 6,816| 6,469|    347|       131| 9,394| 9,122|   272
           |          |     |     |       |          |      |      |       |          |      |      |
1959-60 ...|        45|3,247|3,221|     26|        79| 7,032| 6,645|    387|       134| 9,240| 9,010|   230
1961-62 ...|        46|3,183|3,166|     17|        81| 7,138| 6,749|    389|       134| 9,364| 9,091|   273
1963-64 ...|        46|3,180|3,168|     12|        82| 7,303| 6,878|    425|       133|10,679|10,372|   307
1964-65 ...|        46|3,108|3,086|     22|        81| 7,304| 6,832|    472|       137|11,583|11,216|   367
1965-66 ...|        47|3,178|3,146|     32|        84| 7,673| 7,170|    503|       136|13,246|12,776|   470
1967-68 ...|        48|3,422|3,375|     47|        85| 7,944| 7,318|    626|       138|16,454|15,805|   649
1968-69 ...|      --- |3,408|3,376|     32|      --- | 8,025| 7,415|    610|      --- |17,053|16,373|   680
           |          |     |     |       |          |      |      |       |          |      |      |
1969-70 ...|        48|3,718|3,684|     34|        86| 8,314| 7,615|    699|       145|14,916|14,115|   801
1970-71 ...|        48|3,745|3,703|     42|        89| 8,919| 8,110|    809|       147|17,421|16,181| 1,240
1971-72 ...|        48|3,862|3,819|     43|        92| 9,253| 8,423|    830|       147|21,764|20,266| 1,498
1972-73 ...|        51|4,047|3,992|     55|        97|10,307| 9,388|    919|       152|27,205|25,037| 2,168
1973-74 ...|        52|4,440|4,355|     85|        99|11,356|10,093|  1,263|       151|29,326|25,986| 3,340
           |          |     |     |       |          |      |      |       |          |      |      |
1974-75 ...|        52|4,773|4,627|    146|       104|12,447|10,818|  1,629|       154|29,296|24,881| 4,415
1975-76 ...|        56|5,425|5,187|    238|       107|13,426|11,252|  2,174|       166|32,293|26,085| 6,208
1976-77 ...|        57|5,138|4,764|    374|       109|13,461|10,891|  2,570|       169|34,104|26,447| 7,657
1977-78 ...|        57|5,189|4,623|    566|       109|14,279|11,210|  3,069|       169|34,402|25,457| 8,945
1978-79 ...|        58|5,434|4,794|    640|       109|14,786|11,381|  3,405|       175|35,206|25,180|10,026
           |          |     |     |       |          |      |      |       |          |      |      |
1979-80 ...|        58|5,258|4,558|    700|       112|14,902|11,416|  3,486|       179|35,647|24,893|10,754
1980-81 ...|        58|5,460|4,672|    788|       116|15,505|11,672|  3,833|       176|36,331|24,563|11,768
1981-82 ...|        59|5,282|4,467|    815|       119|15,814|11,867|  3,947|       180|35,991|23,965|12,026
1982-83 ...|        59|5,585|4,631|    954|       118|15,484|11,350|  4,134|       177|36,853|23,550|13,303
1983-84 ...|        60|5,353|4,302|  1,051|       119|15,813|11,359|  4,454|       179|37,012|23,382|13,630
           |          |     |     |       |          |      |      |       |          |      |      |
1984-85 ...|        59|5,339|4,233|  1,106|       120|16,041|11,167|  4,874|       181|37,491|23,070|14,421
1985-86 ...|        59|5,046|3,907|  1,139|       120|15,938|11,022|  4,916|       181|35,844|21,874|13,970
1986-87 ...|        58|4,741|3,603|  1,138|       121|15,428|10,431|  4,997|       179|36,056|21,561|14,495
1987-88 ...|        57|4,477|3,300|  1,177|       122|15,358|10,278|  5,080|       180|35,397|21,067|14,330
1988-89 ...|        58|4,265|3,124|  1,141|       124|15,460|10,310|  5,150|       182|35,634|21,069|14,565
           |          |     |     |       |          |      |      |       |          |      |      |
1989-90 ...|        57|4,100|2,834|  1,266|       124|15,075| 9,923|  5,152|       182|36,485|21,079|15,406
1990-91 ...|        55|3,699|2,510|  1,189|       121|15,043| 9,629|  5,414|       179|37,945|21,643|16,302
1991-92 ...|        52|3,593|2,431|  1,162|       120|15,243| 9,796|  5,447|       177|38,848|22,260|16,588
1992-93 ...|        55|3,605|2,383|  1,222|       122|15,531| 9,679|  5,852|       184|40,302|23,182|17,120
1993-94 ...|        53|3,787|2,330|  1,457|       121|15,368| 9,544|  5,824|       185|40,044|22,826|17,218
           |          |     |     |       |          |      |      |       |          |      |      |
1994-95 ...|        53|3,897|2,480|  1,417|       119|15,537| 9,507|  6,030|       183|39,349|22,592|16,757
1995-96 ...|        53|3,697|2,374|  1,323|       119|15,341| 9,061|  6,280|       183|39,828|22,508|17,320
1996-97 ...|        52|3,784|2,387|  1,397|       118|15,571| 9,121|  6,450|       184|40,079|22,548|17,531
1997-98 ...|        53|4,032|2,490|  1,542|       117|15,424| 9,006|  6,418|       185|39,331|21,876|17,455
1998-99 ...|        53|4,144|2,674|  1,470|       118|15,562| 8,954|  6,608|       188|39,167|21,628|17,539
           |          |     |     |       |          |      |      |       |          |      |      |
1999-2000 .|        54|4,250|2,547|  1,703|       118|15,286| 8,761|  6,525|       190|38,152|20,638|17,514
2000-01 ...|        54|4,391|2,696|  1,695|       118|15,403| 8,728|  6,675|       192|37,904|19,981|17,923
2001-02 ...|        53|4,239|2,608|  1,631|       118|15,237| 8,469|  6,768|       192|38,981|20,254|18,727
2002-03 ...|        53|4,344|2,653|  1,691|       118|15,034| 8,221|  6,813|       194|39,067|19,916|19,151
2003-04 ...|        53|4,335|2,532|  1,803|       118|15,442| 8,273|  7,169|       195|40,209|20,332|19,877
___________|__________|_____|_____|_______|__________|______|______|_______|__________|______|______|_______

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NOTE: Data for 1998-99 were imputed using alternative procedures. (See Guide to Sources for details.)
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Earned Degrees Conferred, 1949-50 through 1964-65; Higher Education General Information Survey (HEGIS), "Degrees and Other Formal Awards Conferred" surveys, 1965-66 through 1985-86; and 1986-87 through 2003-04 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Completions Survey" (IPEDS-C:87-99), and Fall 2000 through Fall 2004. (This table was prepared July 2005.)

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