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Table 324.60. Degrees conferred to males by postsecondary institutions in selected professional fields, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2010-11 and 2011-12
Field of study 2010-11 2011-12
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 48,801 35,456 2,719 2,835 5,772 5,630 142 349 393 1,277 50,334 36,584 2,807 2,971 5,914 5,777 137 313 494 1,251
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) 2,764 1,868 102 144 426 416 10 13 22 189 2,748 1,830 101 124 449 443 6 21 22 201
Medicine (M.D.) 8,701 5,833 399 495 1,731 1,719 12 55 71 117 8,809 5,893 419 491 1,751 1,739 12 58 95 102
Optometry (O.D.) 475 334 7 13 93 93 0 1 1 26 476 324 7 14 92 89 3 0 4 35
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) 2,121 1,552 37 83 416 405 11 16 8 9 2,283 1,715 46 86 388 376 12 13 21 14
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) 4,694 2,967 305 213 984 971 13 27 36 162 4,971 3,064 343 207 1,138 1,125 13 25 43 151
                                         
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric
   medicine (D.P.M.)
318 243 23 10 31 31 0 5 0 6 342 256 17 16 37 37 0 1 4 11
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) 580 505 12 28 26 26 0 2 3 4 588 502 18 37 16 16 0 7 5 3
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.) 1,666 1,318 69 87 125 118 7 13 11 43 1,538 1,234 64 86 108 106 2 6 7 33
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) 23,493 18,236 1,191 1,598 1,645 1,566 79 192 221 410 24,576 19,137 1,239 1,759 1,620 1,547 73 171 256 394
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.) 3,989 2,600 574 164 295 285 10 25 20 311 4,003 2,629 553 151 315 299 16 11 37 307
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.
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2011 and Fall 2012, Completions component. (This table was prepared July 2013.)

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