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Table 275. First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, racial/ethnic group, and major field of study: 2000-01

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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 .......................| 79,707|  58,598| 5,416| 3,806|   9,261|     543|   2,083| 42,862|  32,717| 2,110| 1,977|   4,518|     278|   1,262| 36,845|  25,881| 3,306| 1,829|   4,743|     265|     821
                                    |_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________|_______|________|______|______|________|________|________
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) .......|  4,391|   2,613|   192|   188|   1,036|      34|     328|  2,696|   1,775|    75|    98|     542|      24|     182|  1,695|     838|   117|    90|     494|      10|     146
Medicine (M.D.) ....................| 15,403|  10,284| 1,085|   787|   2,888|      88|     271|  8,728|   6,065|   401|   437|   1,621|      45|     159|  6,675|   4,219|   684|   350|   1,267|      43|     112
Optometry (O.D.) ...................|  1,289|     820|    28|    37|     328|       2|      74|    586|     432|    10|     9|     100|       1|      34|    703|     388|    18|    28|     228|       1|      40
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) ........|  2,450|   1,913|    92|    97|     317|      23|       8|  1,496|   1,216|    43|    52|     163|      17|       5|    954|     697|    49|    45|     154|       6|       3
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) ................|  6,324|   4,163|   446|   212|   1,339|      24|     140|  2,141|   1,475|   126|    80|     404|      10|      46|  4,183|   2,688|   320|   132|     935|      14|      94
                                    |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
 podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) .......|    528|     399|    34|    14|      66|       1|      14|    334|     267|    10|     4|      46|       1|       6|    194|     132|    24|    10|      20|       0|       8
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) .......|  2,248|   2,048|    55|    62|      52|      20|      11|    679|     637|     6|    16|      12|       5|       3|  1,569|   1,411|    49|    46|      40|      15|       8
Chiropractic medicine (D.C.         |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
 or D.C.M.) ........................|  3,796|   2,738|   106|   149|     366|      28|     409|  2,657|   1,907|    58|   112|     268|      23|     289|  1,139|     831|    48|    37|      98|       5|     120
Naturopathic medicine ..............|    275|     237|     3|     8|      21|       3|       3|     79|      66|     0|     2|      10|       1|       0|    196|     171|     3|     6|      11|       2|       3
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) ................| 37,904|  29,619| 2,773| 2,126|   2,584|     303|     499| 19,981|  16,326| 1,058| 1,060|   1,137|     141|     259| 17,923|  13,293| 1,715| 1,066|   1,447|     162|     240
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D.,     |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |        |       |        |      |      |        |        |
 or Ord.) ..........................|  5,026|   3,731|   588|   118|     261|      15|     313|  3,419|   2,523|   310|   100|     212|       8|     266|  1,607|   1,208|   278|    18|      49|       7|      47
Other ..............................|     73|      33|    14|     8|       3|       2|      13|     66|      28|    13|     7|       3|       2|      13|      7|       5|     1|     1|       0|       0|       0
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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, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2001 survey. (This table was prepared September 2002.)


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