Table 324.55.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions in selected professional fields, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2011-12 and 2012-13

Field of study	2011-12										2012-13
	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/Pacific Islander			American Indian/ Alaska Native	Two or more races	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								Total	Asian	Pacific Islander
1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14	15	16	17	18	19	20	21
All fields, total	98,699	68,121	7,103	6,010	13,449	13,147	302	591	1,038	2,387	100,356	68,144	7,202	6,595	13,714	13,431	283	538	1,723	2,440
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	5,109	3,047	252	276	1,043	1,033	10	33	36	422	5,111	2,983	226	308	1,101	1,091	10	24	39	430
Medicine (M.D.)	16,927	10,676	1,180	957	3,569	3,542	27	106	220	219	17,264	10,887	1,096	1,067	3,632	3,606	26	71	275	236
Optometry (O.D.)	1,361	802	36	41	371	365	6	1	7	103	1,521	872	35	61	437	434	3	5	18	93
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	4,336	3,136	132	184	792	770	22	27	31	34	4,691	3,387	116	148	887	876	11	20	105	28
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	12,943	7,827	876	526	3,205	3,172	33	62	99	348	13,377	7,924	1,014	576	3,296	3,250	46	44	148	375
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric       medicine (D.P.M.)	535	367	41	31	68	68	0	3	4	21	471	289	15	26	106	104	2	13	10	12
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,616	2,252	66	140	109	109	0	18	19	12	2,610	2,134	67	273	74	74	0	11	40	11
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	2,496	1,955	128	134	185	175	10	8	25	61	2,224	1,759	75	116	174	163	11	16	26	58
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	46,445	34,276	3,304	3,513	3,724	3,548	176	314	527	787	46,811	33,816	3,449	3,783	3,611	3,457	154	308	990	854
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	5,931	3,783	1,088	208	383	365	18	19	70	380	6,276	4,093	1,109	237	396	376	20	26	72	343

NOTE: Data are for postsecondary institutions participating 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. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2012 and Fall 2013, Completions component. (This table was prepared March 2015.)