Table 324.70.

Degrees conferred to females 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	49,150	31,446	4,309	3,498	7,463	7,326	137	281	949	1,204	48,842	30,424	4,316	3,523	7,924	7,823	101	296	1,088	1,271
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	2,512	1,283	130	184	642	635	7	14	23	236	2,568	1,270	161	194	676	669	7	6	44	217
Medicine (M.D.)	8,288	4,884	713	557	1,823	1,811	12	35	155	121	8,372	4,812	734	555	1,935	1,923	12	41	173	122
Optometry (O.D.)	964	510	24	44	310	308	2	3	13	60	988	470	24	42	345	345	0	3	23	81
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	2,202	1,550	72	70	433	427	6	10	56	11	2,328	1,569	79	75	521	516	5	10	66	8
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	8,233	4,827	643	353	2,086	2,064	22	25	85	214	8,492	4,906	606	355	2,248	2,235	13	34	129	214
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric       medicine (D.P.M.)	175	92	10	15	41	41	0	6	7	4	229	124	13	16	56	56	0	7	9	4
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,017	1,647	50	213	56	56	0	9	34	8	2,121	1,782	43	130	108	106	2	6	41	11
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	856	655	49	51	56	50	6	5	13	27	956	747	54	59	59	55	4	6	9	22
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	21,724	14,656	2,069	1,943	1,922	1,843	79	167	525	442	20,494	13,376	1,966	2,024	1,872	1,819	53	168	555	533
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	1,954	1,182	535	62	69	66	3	6	29	71	2,073	1,218	619	66	86	81	5	13	27	44
Other1	225	160	14	6	25	25	0	1	9	10	221	150	17	7	18	18	0	2	12	15

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.)