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Table 324.60. Degrees conferred to males 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 51,579 36,971 2,910 3,108 6,284 6,137 147 259 788 1,259 50,562 35,485 2,940 3,297 6,343 6,246 97 232 926 1,339
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) 2,707 1,783 97 129 472 468 4 11 18 197 2,839 1,859 98 171 492 483 9 10 27 182
Medicine (M.D.) 8,976 6,003 383 510 1,809 1,795 14 36 120 115 9,234 5,949 427 572 1,953 1,936 17 32 167 134
Optometry (O.D.) 557 362 11 17 127 126 1 2 5 33 535 352 12 17 103 103 0 4 11 36
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) 2,489 1,837 44 78 454 449 5 10 49 17 2,662 1,965 46 78 509 506 3 12 43 9
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) 5,141 3,094 371 223 1,210 1,186 24 19 63 161 5,429 3,215 410 256 1,313 1,302 11 16 75 144
                                         
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric
      medicine (D.P.M.)
296 197 5 11 65 63 2 7 3 8 338 224 6 25 62 61 1 2 9 10
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) 593 487 17 60 18 18 0 2 6 3 565 476 8 40 27 26 1 3 9 2
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.) 1,363 1,100 26 64 118 113 5 11 13 31 1,464 1,176 43 77 107 103 4 6 16 39
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) 25,087 19,160 1,380 1,840 1,689 1,614 75 141 465 412 23,278 17,589 1,253 1,863 1,460 1,417 43 131 526 456
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.) 4,322 2,911 574 175 318 301 17 20 43 281 4,145 2,626 633 194 312 304 8 16 38 326
Other1 48 37 2 1 4 4 0 0 3 1 73 54 4 4 5 5 0 0 5 1
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.)

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