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(18 KB)| Table 275. | First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by racial/ethnic group, major field of study, and sex of student: 1997-98 |
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| Total | Men | Women
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| | 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
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1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | 16 | 17 | 18 | 19 | 20 | 21 | 22
______________________________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________
All fields .................|78,353 | 59,273 |5,483 |3,547 | 7,712 | 561 | 1,777 |44,769 | 35,069 |2,303 |1,971 | 3,993 | 291 | 1,142 |33,584 | 24,204 |3,180 |1,576 | 3,719 | 270 | 635
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Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) .| 4,032 | 2,639 | 181 | 143 | 799 | 22 | 248 | 2,490 | 1,773 | 71 | 76 | 416 | 18 | 136 | 1,542 | 866 | 110 | 67 | 383 | 4 | 112
Medicine (M.D.) ..............|15,424 | 10,558 |1,180 | 773 | 2,612 | 119 | 182 | 9,006 | 6,391 | 484 | 458 | 1,503 | 60 | 110 | 6,418 | 4,167 | 696 | 315 | 1,109 | 59 | 72
Optometry (O.D.) .............| 1,274 | 871 | 32 | 57 | 237 | 5 | 72 | 594 | 446 | 10 | 25 | 74 | 1 | 38 | 680 | 425 | 22 | 32 | 163 | 4 | 34
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) ..| 2,110 | 1,697 | 60 | 82 | 226 | 22 | 23 | 1,337 | 1,102 | 31 | 53 | 122 | 13 | 16 | 773 | 595 | 29 | 29 | 104 | 9 | 7
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) ..........| 3,660 | 2,440 | 291 | 75 | 738 | 6 | 110 | 1,197 | 853 | 80 | 22 | 205 | 3 | 34 | 2,463 | 1,587 | 211 | 53 | 533 | 3 | 76
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Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) .| 594 | 434 | 18 | 30 | 83 | 1 | 28 | 418 | 324 | 5 | 17 | 53 | 1 | 18 | 176 | 110 | 13 | 13 | 30 | 0 | 10
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) .| 2,193 | 2,007 | 53 | 64 | 42 | 16 | 11 | 754 | 677 | 24 | 30 | 11 | 7 | 5 | 1,439 | 1,330 | 29 | 34 | 31 | 9 | 6
Chiropractic medicine (D.C. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
or D.C.M.) ..................| 3,735 | 2,943 | 66 | 114 | 238 | 18 | 356 | 2,712 | 2,143 | 38 | 78 | 178 | 12 | 263 | 1,023 | 800 | 28 | 36 | 60 | 6 | 93
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) ..........|39,331 | 31,012 |3,049 |2,085 | 2,453 | 335 | 397 |21,876 | 17,941 |1,233 |1,111 | 1,191 | 165 | 235 |17,455 | 13,071 |1,816 | 974 | 1,262 | 170 | 162
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D.| | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
or Ord.) ....................| 5,873 | 4,556 | 548 | 122 | 282 | 15 | 350 | 4,343 | 3,382 | 326 | 100 | 238 | 10 | 287 | 1,530 | 1,174 | 222 | 22 | 44 | 5 | 63
Other ........................| 127 | 116 | 5 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 37 | 1 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 85 | 79 | 4 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0
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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. Excludes 497 men and 418 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 2000.)
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