First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2006

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Table 294.

First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2006–07

Field of study	Total							Males							Females
Field of study	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident 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	90,064	64,546	6,474	4,700	11,686	681	1,977	45,057	33,866	2,368	2,266	5,152	335	1,070	45,007	30,680	4,106	2,434	6,534	346	907
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	4,596	2,915	210	199	922	28	322	2,548	1,773	83	102	420	18	152	2,048	1,142	127	97	502	10	170
Medicine (M.D.)	15,730	10,340	1,128	736	3,218	123	185	7,987	5,489	384	345	1,614	68	87	7,743	4,851	744	391	1,604	55	98
Optometry (O.D.)	1,311	820	42	52	317	12	68	493	354	7	15	79	4	34	818	466	35	37	238	8	34
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	2,992	2,277	113	117	455	20	10	1,475	1,142	41	55	225	9	3	1,517	1,135	72	62	230	11	7
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	10,439	6,735	730	442	2,251	78	203	3,394	2,312	224	128	648	24	58	7,045	4,423	506	314	1,603	54	145

Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric medicine (D.P.M.)	331	198	58	26	41	3	5	173	119	24	9	17	1	3	158	79	34	17	24	2	2
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,443	2,228	55	67	70	12	11	537	489	15	16	15	2	0	1,906	1,739	40	51	55	10	11
Chiropractic medicine (D.C. or D.C.M.)	2,525	2,000	109	110	196	18	92	1,617	1,297	45	74	124	15	62	908	703	64	36	72	3	30
Naturopathic medicine	221	179	8	12	12	2	8	56	46	2	2	3	0	3	165	133	6	10	9	2	5
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	43,486	32,552	3,189	2,793	3,849	371	732	22,777	17,956	1,119	1,410	1,733	183	376	20,709	14,596	2,070	1,383	2,116	188	356
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D., or Ord.)	5,990	4,302	832	146	355	14	341	4,000	2,889	424	110	274	11	292	1,990	1,413	408	36	81	3	49

NOTE: Includes degrees that require at least 6 years of college work for completion (including at least 2 years of preprofessional training). Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. 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.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2006–07 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2007. (This table was prepared July 2008.)

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