First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2005

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Table 295.

First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2005–06

Field of study	Total							Males							Females
Field of study	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident 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	87,655	63,590	6,223	4,446	10,645	710	2,041	44,038	33,544	2,290	2,123	4,641	332	1,108	43,617	30,046	3,933	2,323	6,004	378	933
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	4,389	2,810	214	222	799	29	315	2,435	1,748	76	105	346	15	145	1,954	1,062	138	117	453	14	170
Medicine (M.D.)	15,455	10,172	1,159	681	3,145	143	155	7,900	5,445	400	355	1,557	70	73	7,555	4,727	759	326	1,588	73	82
Optometry (O.D.)	1,198	790	34	42	260	9	63	490	385	6	20	56	3	20	708	405	28	22	204	6	43
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	2,718	2,113	95	102	373	24	11	1,434	1,184	28	44	158	14	6	1,284	929	67	58	215	10	5
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	9,292	5,966	744	368	1,918	91	205	3,032	2,001	245	131	558	21	76	6,260	3,965	499	237	1,360	70	129

Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric medicine (D.P.M.)	347	209	41	32	43	2	20	191	136	12	13	17	1	12	156	73	29	19	26	1	8
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,370	2,148	51	65	72	18	16	535	490	13	12	11	5	4	1,835	1,658	38	53	61	13	12
Chiropractic medicine (D.C. or D.C.M.)	2,564	1,968	114	115	209	15	143	1,615	1,254	54	65	143	7	92	949	714	60	50	66	8	51
Naturopathic medicine	216	177	5	9	10	2	13	49	39	0	3	2	1	4	167	138	5	6	8	1	9
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	43,440	33,154	2,939	2,678	3,556	363	750	22,597	18,149	1,033	1,272	1,565	187	391	20,843	15,005	1,906	1,406	1,991	176	359
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D., or Ord.)	5,666	4,083	827	132	260	14	350	3,760	2,713	423	103	228	8	285	1,906	1,370	404	29	32	6	65

NOTE: 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, 2005–06 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2006. (This table was prepared June 2007.)

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