Table 340.

Degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions in selected professional fields, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2009-10 and 2010-11

Field of study	2009-10							2010-11
	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	Two or more races	Non- resi- dent alien
												Total	Asian	Pacific Islander
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18
All fields, total	94,103	66,172	6,850	5,430	12,691	665	2,295	95,749	66,211	6,915	5,800	12,843	12,561	282	662	842	2,476
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	5,062	3,037	278	296	1,013	39	399	5,071	3,094	278	323	934	915	19	25	37	380
Medicine (M.D.)	16,356	10,570	1,174	852	3,421	121	218	16,863	10,713	1,129	967	3,570	3,547	23	100	161	223
Optometry (O.D.)	1,335	789	48	41	358	5	94	1,322	785	32	49	348	346	2	6	3	99
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	3,890	2,918	115	133	687	17	20	4,141	2,986	137	159	804	783	21	25	15	15
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	11,873	7,485	788	521	2,736	57	286	12,274	7,598	849	540	2,786	2,747	39	56	76	369
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric     medicine (D.P.M.)	491	343	43	26	58	9	12	543	372	55	21	71	71	0	12	0	12
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,478	2,187	67	95	107	15	7	2,564	2,233	59	117	99	96	3	21	24	11
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	2,601	2,116	125	107	175	11	67	2,694	2,114	139	129	190	179	11	23	17	82
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	44,345	33,015	3,206	3,182	3,754	368	820	44,445	32,599	3,186	3,271	3,664	3,512	152	360	476	889
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	5,672	3,712	1,006	177	382	23	372	5,832	3,717	1,051	224	377	365	12	34	33	396

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, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010 and Fall 2011, Completions component. (This table was prepared June 2012.)