Table 324.55.

Degrees conferred 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	95,749	66,211	6,915	5,800	12,843	12,561	282	662	842	2,476	98,710	68,003	7,255	6,042	13,318	13,054	264	618	1,076	2,398
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	5,071	3,094	278	323	934	915	19	25	37	380	5,109	3,039	262	276	1,038	1,028	10	35	37	422
Medicine (M.D.)	16,863	10,713	1,129	967	3,570	3,547	23	100	161	223	16,927	10,683	1,190	935	3,557	3,528	29	114	229	219
Optometry (O.D.)	1,322	785	32	49	348	346	2	6	3	99	1,361	802	37	41	370	364	6	1	7	103
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	4,141	2,986	137	159	804	783	21	25	15	15	4,336	3,131	135	186	790	768	22	28	32	34
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	12,274	7,598	849	540	2,786	2,747	39	56	76	369	12,943	7,829	897	534	3,167	3,133	34	64	104	348
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric    medicine (D.P.M.)	543	372	55	21	71	71	0	12	0	12	535	366	41	32	68	68	0	3	4	21
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,564	2,233	59	117	99	96	3	21	24	11	2,616	2,247	70	141	106	106	0	19	21	12
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	2,694	2,114	139	129	190	179	11	23	17	82	2,496	1,959	130	136	182	172	10	8	20	61
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	44,445	32,599	3,186	3,271	3,664	3,512	152	360	476	889	46,445	34,192	3,377	3,545	3,659	3,525	134	328	557	787
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	5,832	3,717	1,051	224	377	365	12	34	33	396	5,942	3,755	1,116	216	381	362	19	18	65	391

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.)