First-professional degrees conferred by institutions of higher education, by racial/ethnic group, major field of study, and sex of student: 1995-96

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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\ ..............|76,641 | 59,456 |5,016 |3,476 |  6,617 |    463 |  1,613 |44,679 | 35,732 |2,107 |1,947 |  3,533 |    256 |  1,104 |31,962 | 23,724 |2,909 |1,529 |  3,084 |    207 |    509
                              |_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) .| 3,697 |  2,516 |  175 |  177 |    598 |     11 |    220 | 2,374 |  1,705 |   76 |  103 |    332 |      9 |    149 | 1,323 |    811 |   99 |   74 |    266 |      2 |     71
Medicine (M.D.) ..............|15,341 | 10,956 |  988 |  702 |  2,406 |     93 |    196 | 9,061 |  6,661 |  387 |  397 |  1,435 |     54 |    127 | 6,280 |  4,295 |  601 |  305 |    971 |     39 |     69
Optometry (O.D.) .............| 1,231 |    911 |   35 |   47 |    169 |      2 |     67 |   568 |    442 |    9 |   17 |     60 |      1 |     39 |   663 |    469 |   26 |   30 |    109 |      1 |     28
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) ..| 1,895 |  1,529 |   45 |   74 |    210 |     14 |     23 | 1,232 |  1,009 |   23 |   54 |    124 |      8 |     14 |   663 |    520 |   22 |   20 |     86 |      6 |      9
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) ..........| 2,555 |  1,570 |  275 |   80 |    526 |      8 |     96 |   873 |    572 |   78 |   33 |    148 |      3 |     39 | 1,682 |    998 |  197 |   47 |    378 |      5 |     57
                              |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or  |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
 podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) .|   650 |    462 |   56 |   43 |     64 |      5 |     20 |   453 |    344 |   15 |   29 |     46 |      3 |     16 |   197 |    118 |   41 |   14 |     18 |      2 |      4
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) .| 2,109 |  1,935 |   33 |   77 |     37 |     17 |     10 |   715 |    656 |   14 |   27 |      8 |      6 |      4 | 1,394 |  1,279 |   19 |   50 |     29 |     11 |      6
Chiropractic medicine (D.C.   |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
 or D.C.M.) ..................| 3,379 |  2,777 |   65 |  113 |    134 |     18 |    272 | 2,470 |  2,051 |   29 |   75 |    103 |     11 |    201 |   909 |    726 |   36 |   38 |     31 |      7 |     71
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) ..........|39,828 | 32,085 |2,842 |2,052 |  2,182 |    280 |    387 |22,508 | 18,794 |1,162 |1,115 |  1,031 |    153 |    253 |17,320 | 13,291 |1,680 |  937 |  1,151 |    127 |    134
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D.|       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
 or Ord.) ....................| 5,879 |  4,657 |  501 |  111 |    289 |     15 |    306 | 4,400 |  3,478 |  313 |   97 |    244 |      8 |    260 | 1,479 |  1,179 |  188 |   14 |     45 |      7 |     46
Other ........................|    77 |     58 |    1 |    0 |      2 |      0 |     16 |    25 |     20 |    1 |    0 |      2 |      0 |      2 |    52 |     38 |    0 |    0 |      0 |      0 |     14
______________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________

\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 69 men and 24 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 June 1998.)

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