Table 306.

First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2008-09

Field of study	Total							Males							Females
	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent alien	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent alien	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent 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	92,004	65,439	6,571	5,089	12,182	659	2,064	46,900	35,287	2,500	2,403	5,349	329	1,032	45,104	30,152	4,071	2,686	6,833	330	1,032
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	4,918	3,005	275	280	991	35	332	2,637	1,840	95	125	416	25	136	2,281	1,165	180	155	575	10	196
Medicine (M.D.)	15,987	10,414	1,095	778	3,384	110	206	8,164	5,577	399	384	1,645	61	98	7,823	4,837	696	394	1,739	49	108
Optometry (O.D.)	1,338	864	40	62	297	3	72	466	342	8	13	80	1	22	872	522	32	49	217	2	50
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	3,665	2,652	150	151	670	18	24	1,798	1,374	43	73	287	8	13	1,867	1,278	107	78	383	10	11
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	11,291	7,177	801	449	2,524	53	287	4,011	2,646	270	160	816	18	101	7,280	4,531	531	289	1,708	35	186
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or    podiatric medicine (D.P.M.)	431	298	39	25	48	8	13	250	193	11	17	19	5	5	181	105	28	8	29	3	8
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,377	2,083	75	101	92	19	7	526	468	12	16	24	6	0	1,851	1,615	63	85	68	13	7
Chiropractic medicine (D.C.    or D.C.M.)	2,512	2,038	94	140	154	17	69	1,584	1,327	28	87	88	11	43	928	711	66	53	66	6	26
Naturopathic medicine	78	52	5	1	9	2	9	18	12	3	0	0	0	3	60	40	2	1	9	2	6
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	44,045	33,096	3,162	2,958	3,702	378	749	23,860	18,977	1,172	1,419	1,733	185	374	20,185	14,119	1,990	1,539	1,969	193	375
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D.,    or Ord.)	5,362	3,760	835	144	311	16	296	3,586	2,531	459	109	241	9	237	1,776	1,229	376	35	70	7	59

NOTE: Degree-granting institutions grant associate’s or higher degrees and participate in Title IV federal financial aid programs. Includes degrees that require at least 6 years of college work for completion (including at least 2 years of preprofessional training). 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, 2008-09 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2009. (This table was prepared September 2010.)