First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by racial/ethnic group, major field of study, and sex of student: 1999-2000

Table 275.

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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| Alaska |  dent  |       |Hispanic| His- |panic |Islander| Alaska |  dent  |       |Hispanic| His- |panic |Islander| Alaska |  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 .................|80,057 | 59,637 |5,555 |3,865 |  8,584 |    564 |  1,852 |44,239 | 34,004 |2,313 |2,095 |  4,372 |    285 |  1,170 |35,818 | 25,633 |3,242 |1,770 |  4,212 |    279 |    682
                              |_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) .| 4,250 |  2,661 |  197 |  182 |    950 |     14 |    246 | 2,547 |  1,724 |   84 |  101 |    511 |      8 |    119 | 1,703 |    937 |  113 |   81 |    439 |      6 |    127
Medicine (M.D.) ..............|15,286 | 10,478 |1,107 |  825 |  2,639 |    124 |    113 | 8,761 |  6,230 |  431 |  470 |  1,501 |     64 |     65 | 6,525 |  4,248 |  676 |  355 |  1,138 |     60 |     48
Optometry (O.D.) .............| 1,293 |    865 |   30 |   45 |    269 |      9 |     75 |   604 |    440 |    9 |   19 |     91 |      3 |     42 |   689 |    425 |   21 |   26 |    178 |      6 |     33
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) ..| 2,236 |  1,770 |   77 |   82 |    279 |     14 |     14 | 1,399 |  1,135 |   34 |   52 |    158 |      9 |     11 |   837 |    635 |   43 |   30 |    121 |      5 |      3
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) ..........| 5,669 |  3,725 |  465 |  195 |  1,141 |     30 |    113 | 1,943 |  1,306 |  150 |   83 |    349 |     16 |     39 | 3,726 |  2,419 |  315 |  112 |    792 |     14 |     74
                              |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
 podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) .|   569 |    409 |   41 |   18 |     93 |      2 |      6 |   396 |    300 |   19 |   14 |     57 |      1 |      5 |   173 |    109 |   22 |    4 |     36 |      1 |      1
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) .| 2,251 |  2,064 |   49 |   74 |     38 |     14 |     12 |   710 |    657 |   13 |   22 |     12 |      2 |      4 | 1,541 |  1,407 |   36 |   52 |     26 |     12 |      8
Chiropractic medicine (D.C.   |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
 or D.C.M.) ..................| 3,809 |  2,888 |   82 |  116 |    357 |     15 |    351 | 2,718 |  2,083 |   49 |   78 |    255 |     11 |    242 | 1,091 |    805 |   33 |   38 |    102 |      4 |    109
Naturopathic medicine ........|   202 |    171 |    2 |    7 |     11 |      1 |     10 |    61 |     49 |    1 |    4 |      4 |      0 |      3 |   141 |    122 |    1 |    3 |      7 |      1 |      7
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) ..........|38,152 | 29,939 |2,773 |2,183 |  2,469 |    324 |    464 |20,638 | 16,806 |1,092 |1,144 |  1,164 |    162 |    270 |17,514 | 13,133 |1,681 |1,039 |  1,305 |    162 |    194
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D.|       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
 or Ord.) ....................| 6,129 |  4,496 |  721 |  131 |    320 |     17 |    444 | 4,337 |  3,167 |  427 |  105 |    261 |      9 |    368 | 1,792 |  1,329 |  294 |   26 |     59 |      8 |     76
Other ........................|   211 |    171 |   11 |    7 |     18 |      0 |      4 |   125 |    107 |    4 |    3 |      9 |      0 |      2 |    86 |     64 |    7 |    4 |      9 |      0 |      2
______________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________

NOTE: 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. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Completions" survey. (This table was prepared November 2002.)

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