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Table 271. First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, racial/ethnic group, and major field of study: 2003-04
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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 ...........|83,041|60,379| 5,930|4,273|  9,964|     565|   1,930|42,169|  31,994| 2,248| 2,080|   4,528|     275|   1,044|40,872|  28,385| 3,682| 2,193|   5,436|     290|     886
                                |______|______|______|_____|_______|________|________|______|________|______|______|________|________|________|______|________|______|______|________|________|________
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) ...| 4,335| 2,703|   194|  202|    896|      17|     323| 2,532|   1,732|    72|    98|     466|       7|     157| 1,803|     971|   122|   104|     430|      10|     166
Medicine (M.D.) ................|15,442|10,255| 1,051|  792|  3,034|     111|     199| 8,273|   5,697|   388|   397|   1,631|      58|     102| 7,169|   4,558|   663|   395|   1,403|      53|      97
Optometry (O.D.) ...............| 1,275|   815|    29|   49|    326|       2|      54|   543|     379|    15|    15|     101|       2|      31|   732|     436|    14|    34|     225|       0|      23
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) ....| 2,722| 2,064|    96|   93|    447|      17|       5| 1,567|   1,210|    36|    50|     256|      12|       3| 1,155|     854|    60|    43|     191|       5|       2
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) ............| 8,221| 5,076|   684|  319|  1,910|      43|     189| 2,711|   1,752|   217|   111|     572|      12|      47| 5,510|   3,324|   467|   208|   1,338|      31|     142
                                |      |      |      |     |       |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or    |      |      |      |     |       |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |
   podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) .|   382|   237|    46|   31|     52|       6|      10|   221|     148|    18|    15|      28|       5|       7|   161|      89|    28|    16|      24|       1|       3
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) ...| 2,228| 2,003|    53|   86|     60|      18|       8|   569|     520|    13|    23|       8|       4|       1| 1,659|   1,483|    40|    63|      52|      14|       7
Chiropractic medicine (D.C.     |      |      |      |     |       |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |
   or D.C.M.) ..................| 2,730| 2,129|    97|  125|    211|      15|     153| 1,868|   1,475|    50|    95|     146|      11|      91|   862|     654|    47|    30|      65|       4|      62
Naturopathic medicine ..........|   165|   141|     3|    6|      9|       1|       5|    42|      35|     0|     0|       3|       1|       3|   123|     106|     3|     6|       6|       0|       2
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) ............|40,209|31,087| 2,935|2,430|  2,768|     322|     667|20,332|  16,503| 1,065| 1,161|   1,112|     154|     337|19,877|  14,584| 1,870| 1,269|   1,656|     168|     330
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D., |      |      |      |     |       |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |        |      |        |      |      |        |        |
   or Ord.) ....................| 5,332| 3,869|   742|  140|    251|      13|     317| 3,511|   2,543|   374|   115|     205|       9|     265| 1,821|   1,326|   368|    25|      46|       4|      52
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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, 2003-04 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2004. (This table was prepared July 2005.)

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