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Table 285. First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and major field of study: 2004-05
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 87,289 63,429 6,313 4,445 10,501 564 2,037 43,849 33,268 2,257 2,214 4,709 288 1,113 43,440 30,161 4,056 2,231 5,792 276 924
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) 4,454 2,770 192 227 879 16 370 2,505 1,685 76 112 443 11 178 1,949 1,085 116 115 436 5 192
Medicine (M.D.) 15,461 10,269 1,083 748 3,084 96 181 8,151 5,586 370 412 1,628 52 103 7,310 4,683 713 336 1,456 44 78
Optometry (O.D.) 1,252 769 36 52 320 8 67 482 358 14 22 60 3 25 770 411 22 30 260 5 42
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) 2,762 2,122 88 108 426 14 4 1,482 1,160 34 57 217 10 4 1,280 962 54 51 209 4 0
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) 8,885 5,600 791 353 1,872 52 217 2,889 1,893 216 115 559 25 81 5,996 3,707 575 238 1,313 27 136
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) 343 229 34 28 43 1 8 195 134 14 15 25 1 6 148 95 20 13 18 0 2
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) 2,354 2,125 43 79 75 21 11 574 509 21 22 14 5 3 1,780 1,616 22 57 61 16 8
Chiropractic medicine (D.C. or D.C.M.) 2,560 1,943 135 129 204 19 130 1,665 1,269 67 82 143 10 94 895 674 68 47 61 9 36
Naturopathic medicine 262 212 13 13 14 2 8 44 39 3 2 0 0 0 218 173 10 11 14 2 8
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) 43,423 33,492 3,052 2,553 3,326 320 680 22,297 18,103 1,040 1,259 1,414 164 317 21,126 15,389 2,012 1,294 1,912 156 363
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D., or Ord.) 5,533 3,898 846 155 258 15 361 3,565 2,532 402 116 206 7 302 1,968 1,366 444 39 52 8 59
NOTE: Race categories exclude persons of Hispanic ethnicity. 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.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2004–05 Integrated Postsecondary Edu­cation Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2005. (This table was prepared July 2006.)

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