Table 278.

First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and major field of study: 2003–04

Major field of study	Total							Males							Females
	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	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

NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic origin. 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.)