Table 273. | First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, racial/ethnic group, and major field of study: 2001-02 |
________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ | Total | Males | Females |_____________________________________________________|________________________________________________________|________________________________________________________ | |White,|Black,|His- | Asian/ |American|Nonresi-| | White, |Black,| His- | Asian/ |American|Nonresi-| | White, |Black,| His- | Asian/ |American|Nonresi- Major field of study |Total | non- | non- |panic|Pacific |Indian/ | dent |Total | non- | non- |panic |Pacific |Indian/ | dent |Total | non- | non- |panic |Pacific |Indian/ | dent | | His- | His- | |Islander| Alaska | alien | |Hispanic| His- | |Islander| Alaska | alien | |Hispanic| His- | |Islander| Alaska | alien | |panic |panic | | | Native | | | |panic | | | Native | | | |panic | | | Native | ________________________________|______|______|______|_____|________|________|________|______|________|______|______|________|________|________|______|________|______|______|________|________|________ 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 ...........|80,698|58,874| 5,811|3,965| 9,584| 581| 1,883|42,507| 32,224| 2,223| 2,045| 4,613| 292| 1,110|38,191| 26,650| 3,588| 1,920| 4,971| 289| 773 |______|______|______|_____|________|________|________|______|________|______|______|________|________|________|______|________|______|______|________|________|________ Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) ...| 4,239| 2,630| 155| 173| 974| 26| 281| 2,608| 1,730| 63| 98| 540| 20| 157| 1,631| 900| 92| 75| 434| 6| 124 Medicine (M.D.) ................|15,237|10,148| 1,104| 757| 2,959| 123| 146| 8,469| 5,834| 407| 408| 1,661| 63| 96| 6,768| 4,314| 697| 349| 1,298| 60| 50 Optometry (O.D.) ...............| 1,280| 800| 22| 40| 344| 8| 66| 565| 399| 10| 10| 109| 4| 33| 715| 401| 12| 30| 235| 4| 33 Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) ....| 2,416| 1,825| 97| 67| 414| 10| 3| 1,415| 1,112| 39| 37| 221| 4| 2| 1,001| 713| 58| 30| 193| 6| 1 Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) ............| 7,076| 4,551| 570| 229| 1,501| 57| 168| 2,428| 1,613| 190| 97| 440| 27| 61| 4,648| 2,938| 380| 132| 1,061| 30| 107 | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) .| 474| 332| 38| 15| 71| 7| 11| 315| 229| 16| 12| 43| 5| 10| 159| 103| 22| 3| 28| 2| 1 Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) ...| 2,289| 2,055| 67| 61| 65| 22| 19| 652| 586| 17| 19| 14| 11| 5| 1,637| 1,469| 50| 42| 51| 11| 14 Chiropractic medicine (D.C. | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | or D.C.M.) ..................| 3,284| 2,426| 116| 121| 354| 20| 247| 2,248| 1,672| 63| 86| 251| 11| 165| 1,036| 754| 53| 35| 103| 9| 82 Naturopathic medicine ..........| 227| 200| 4| 2| 11| 1| 9| 69| 64| 2| 0| 3| 0| 0| 158| 136| 2| 2| 8| 1| 9 Law (LL.B. or J.D.) ............|38,981|30,125| 3,002|2,368| 2,621| 299| 566|20,254| 16,445| 1,092| 1,169| 1,121| 145| 282|18,727| 13,680| 1,910| 1,199| 1,500| 154| 284 Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D., | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | or Ord.) ....................| 5,195| 3,782| 636| 132| 270| 8| 367| 3,484| 2,540| 324| 109| 210| 2| 299| 1,711| 1,242| 312| 23| 60| 6| 68 ________________________________|______|______|______|_____|________|________|________|______|________|______|______|________|________|________|______|________|______|______|________|________|________ |
NOTE: Reported racial/ethnic distributions of students by level of degree, field of study, 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 2002. (This table was prepared August 2003.)
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