Table 324.55.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions in selected professional fields, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2012-13 and 2013-14

Field of study	2012-13										2013-14
	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	100,729	68,417	7,219	6,606	13,747	13,463	284	540	1,737	2,463	99,404	65,909	7,256	6,820	14,267	14,069	198	528	2,014	2,610
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	5,219	3,066	227	313	1,114	1,103	11	25	41	433	5,407	3,129	259	365	1,168	1,152	16	16	71	399
Medicine (M.D.)	17,264	10,887	1,096	1,067	3,632	3,606	26	71	275	236	17,606	10,761	1,161	1,127	3,888	3,859	29	73	340	256
Optometry (O.D.)	1,521	872	35	61	437	434	3	5	18	93	1,523	822	36	59	448	448	0	7	34	117
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	4,691	3,387	116	148	887	876	11	20	105	28	4,990	3,534	125	153	1,030	1,022	8	22	109	17
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	13,374	7,921	1,014	576	3,296	3,250	46	44	148	375	13,921	8,121	1,016	611	3,561	3,537	24	50	204	358
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric       medicine (D.P.M.)	471	289	15	26	106	104	2	13	10	12	567	348	19	41	118	117	1	9	18	14
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,610	2,134	67	273	74	74	0	11	40	11	2,686	2,258	51	170	135	132	3	9	50	13
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	2,219	1,755	75	115	174	163	11	16	26	58	2,420	1,923	97	136	166	158	8	12	25	61
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	46,811	33,816	3,449	3,783	3,611	3,457	154	308	990	854	43,772	30,965	3,219	3,887	3,332	3,236	96	299	1,081	989
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	6,276	4,093	1,109	237	387	367	20	26	72	352	6,218	3,844	1,252	260	398	385	13	29	65	370
Other1	273	197	16	7	29	29	0	1	12	11	294	204	21	11	23	23	0	2	17	16

1 Includes naturopathic medicine and degrees that were not classified by field by the reporting institution.

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. Some data have been revised from previously published figures.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2013 and Fall 2014, Completions component. (This table was prepared May 2016.)