First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, racial/ethnic group, and major field of study: 2002-03

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Table 272.

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                                |                            Total                   |                           Males                        |                            Females
                                |____________________________________________________|________________________________________________________|________________________________________________________
                                |      |White,|Black,|     | Asian/|American|        |      |        |Black,|      |        |American|        |      |        |Black,|      |        |American|
                                |      |  non-|  non-|     |Pacific| Indian/|Nonresi-|      |  White,|  non-|      |  Asian/| Indian/|Nonresi-|      |  White,|  non-|      |  Asian/| Indian/|Nonresi-
                                |      |  His-|  His-| His-|Island-|  Alaska|    dent|      |    non-|  His-|  His-| Pacific|  Alaska|    dent|      |    non-|  His-|  His-| Pacific|  Alaska|   dent
Major field of study            | Total| panic| panic|panic|     er|  Native|   alien| Total|Hispanic| panic| panic|Islander|  Native|   alien| Total|Hispanic| panic| panic|Islander|  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, total ...........|80,810|58,678| 5,715|4,086|  9,790|     586|   1,955|41,834|  31,596| 2,172| 2,047|   4,618|     296|   1,105|38,976|  27,082| 3,543| 2,039|   5,172|     290|     850
                                |______|______|______|_____|_______|________|________|______|________|______|______|________|________|________|______|________|______|______|________|________|________
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) ...| 4,344| 2,666|   165|  198|    975|      22|     318| 2,653|   1,784|    61|    95|     532|       9|     172| 1,691|     882|   104|   103|     443|      13|     146
Medicine (M.D.) ................|15,034|10,008| 1,042|  730|  3,007|     109|     138| 8,221|   5,681|   359|   392|   1,661|      56|      72| 6,813|   4,327|   683|   338|   1,346|      53|      66
Optometry (O.D.) ...............| 1,281|   804|    33|   46|    295|       7|      96|   567|     402|     8|    21|      90|       4|      42|   714|     402|    25|    25|     205|       3|      54
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) ....| 2,529| 1,912|    86|   86|    422|      15|       8| 1,479|   1,153|    31|    36|     246|       8|       5| 1,050|     759|    55|    50|     176|       7|       3
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) ............| 7,465| 4,600|   642|  250|  1,742|      53|     178| 2,599|   1,637|   198|   102|     576|      23|      63| 4,866|   2,963|   444|   148|   1,166|      30|     115
                                |      |      |      |     |       |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or    |      |      |      |     |       |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |
   podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) .|   438|   287|    45|   27|     67|       2|      10|   281|     195|    21|    17|      42|       0|       6|   157|      92|    24|    10|      25|       2|       4
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) ...| 2,354| 2,134|    72|   56|     65|       9|      18|   680|     626|    25|    11|      13|       1|       4| 1,674|   1,508|    47|    45|      52|       8|      14
Chiropractic medicine (D.C.     |      |      |      |     |       |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |
   or D.C.M.) ..................| 2,718| 2,069|    88|  110|    253|      14|     184| 1,867|   1,447|    47|    67|     170|      12|     124|   851|     622|    41|    43|      83|       2|      60
Naturopathic medicine ..........|   229|   189|     3|    3|     20|       0|      14|    72|      61|     0|     1|       5|       0|       5|   157|     128|     3|     2|      15|       0|       9
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) ............|39,067|30,142| 2,834|2,424|  2,714|     329|     624|19,916|  16,076| 1,071| 1,184|   1,097|     168|     320|19,151|  14,066| 1,763| 1,240|   1,617|     161|     304
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D., |      |      |      |     |       |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |
   or Ord.) ....................| 5,351| 3,867|   705|  156|    230|      26|     367| 3,499|   2,534|   351|   121|     186|      15|     292| 1,852|   1,333|   354|    35|      44|      11|      75
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NOTE: Reported racial/ethnic distributions of students by level of degree, field of study, and sex were used to estimate race/ethnicity for students whose race/ethnicity was not reported.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2002-03 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2003. (This table was prepared December 2004.)

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