Table 309.

Degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions in selected professional fields, by sex, race/ethnicity, and field of study: 2009-10

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	94,103	66,172	6,850	5,430	12,691	665	2,295	47,538	35,187	2,595	2,625	5,646	322	1,163	46,565	30,985	4,255	2,805	7,045	343	1,132
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	5,062	3,037	278	296	1,013	39	399	2,745	1,850	115	139	452	19	170	2,317	1,187	163	157	561	20	229
Medicine (M.D.)	16,356	10,570	1,174	852	3,421	121	218	8,468	5,719	414	435	1,726	63	111	7,888	4,851	760	417	1,695	58	107
Optometry (O.D.)	1,335	789	48	41	358	5	94	457	336	9	5	67	1	39	878	453	39	36	291	4	55
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	3,890	2,918	115	133	687	17	20	1,979	1,538	36	82	304	7	12	1,911	1,380	79	51	383	10	8
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	11,873	7,485	788	521	2,736	57	286	4,297	2,816	271	180	920	21	89	7,576	4,669	517	341	1,816	36	197
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or
podiatric medicine (D.P.M.)	491	343	43	26	58	9	12	276	207	12	14	29	7	7	215	136	31	12	29	2	5
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,478	2,187	67	95	107	15	7	555	493	12	18	27	3	2	1,923	1,694	55	77	80	12	5
Chiropractic medicine (D.C.    or D.C.M.)	2,601	2,116	125	107	175	11	67	1,610	1,331	53	72	110	6	38	991	785	72	35	65	5	29
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	44,345	33,015	3,206	3,182	3,754	368	820	23,394	18,362	1,211	1,550	1,701	179	391	20,951	14,653	1,995	1,632	2,053	189	429
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D.,    or Ord.)	5,672	3,712	1,006	177	382	23	372	3,757	2,535	462	130	310	16	304	1,915	1,177	544	47	72	7	68

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, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2010, Completions component. (This table was prepared November 2011.)