Table 324.70.

Degrees conferred to females 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	46,948	30,755	4,196	2,965	7,071	6,931	140	313	449	1,199	48,376	31,419	4,448	3,071	7,404	7,277	127	305	582	1,147
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	2,307	1,226	176	179	508	499	9	12	15	191	2,361	1,209	161	152	589	585	4	14	15	221
Medicine (M.D.)	8,162	4,880	730	472	1,839	1,828	11	45	90	106	8,118	4,790	771	444	1,806	1,789	17	56	134	117
Optometry (O.D.)	847	451	25	36	255	253	2	5	2	73	885	478	30	27	278	275	3	1	3	68
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	2,020	1,434	100	76	388	378	10	9	7	6	2,053	1,416	89	100	402	392	10	15	11	20
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	7,580	4,631	544	327	1,802	1,776	26	29	40	207	7,972	4,765	554	327	2,029	2,008	21	39	61	197
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric    medicine (D.P.M.)	225	129	32	11	40	40	0	7	0	6	193	110	24	16	31	31	0	2	0	10
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	1,984	1,728	47	89	73	70	3	19	21	7	2,028	1,745	52	104	90	90	0	12	16	9
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	1,028	796	70	42	65	61	4	10	6	39	958	725	66	50	74	66	8	2	13	28
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	20,952	14,363	1,995	1,673	2,019	1,946	73	168	255	479	21,869	15,055	2,138	1,786	2,039	1,978	61	157	301	393
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	1,843	1,117	477	60	82	80	2	9	13	85	1,939	1,126	563	65	66	63	3	7	28	84

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.)