Table 307.

First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2007-08

Field of study	Total							Males							Females
	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	Non- resi- dent alien	Total	White	Black	His- panic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resi- dent 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	91,309	65,383	6,400	4,840	11,846	675	2,165	45,916	34,618	2,389	2,301	5,135	343	1,130	45,393	30,765	4,011	2,539	6,711	332	1,035
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	4,795	3,030	221	261	926	24	333	2,661	1,866	86	119	422	14	154	2,134	1,164	135	142	504	10	179
Medicine (M.D.)	15,646	10,232	1,147	747	3,230	132	158	7,935	5,455	396	363	1,565	66	90	7,711	4,777	751	384	1,665	66	68
Optometry (O.D.)	1,304	822	46	40	305	2	89	445	320	8	12	78	0	27	859	502	38	28	227	2	62
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	3,232	2,388	118	125	550	28	23	1,581	1,235	38	58	230	10	10	1,651	1,153	80	67	320	18	13
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	10,932	7,053	781	443	2,314	69	272	3,716	2,528	248	137	677	32	94	7,216	4,525	533	306	1,637	37	178
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or    podiatric medicine (D.P.M.)	555	375	71	30	61	1	17	305	233	27	12	23	0	10	250	142	44	18	38	1	7
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,504	2,272	42	78	90	10	12	580	537	9	17	11	5	1	1,924	1,735	33	61	79	5	11
Chiropractic medicine (D.C.    or D.C.M.)	2,639	2,125	100	120	179	17	98	1,683	1,370	47	73	123	12	58	956	755	53	47	56	5	40
Naturopathic medicine	182	154	5	3	10	3	7	36	30	2	0	2	2	0	146	124	3	3	8	1	7
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	43,769	32,939	3,002	2,821	3,865	370	772	23,197	18,388	1,109	1,378	1,753	189	380	20,572	14,551	1,893	1,443	2,112	181	392
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D.,    or Ord.)	5,751	3,993	867	172	316	19	384	3,777	2,656	419	132	251	13	306	1,974	1,337	448	40	65	6	78

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, 2007-08 Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2008. (This table was prepared June 2009.)