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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 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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.) |