Table 324.55.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions in selected professional fields, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2013-14 and 2014-15

Field of study	2013-14										2014-15
	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	99,524	66,029	7,256	6,820	14,267	14,069	198	528	2,014	2,610	97,953	63,472	7,512	6,994	14,071	13,885	186	541	2,556	2,807
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	5,407	3,129	259	365	1,168	1,152	16	16	71	399	5,816	3,227	240	372	1,361	1,357	4	21	117	478
Medicine (M.D.)	17,604	10,759	1,161	1,127	3,888	3,859	29	73	340	256	18,302	11,301	1,193	1,239	3,872	3,843	29	65	419	213
Optometry (O.D.)	1,523	822	36	59	448	448	0	7	34	117	1,511	828	50	62	408	404	4	3	42	118
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	4,991	3,535	125	153	1,030	1,022	8	22	109	17	5,355	3,731	153	216	1,042	1,032	10	24	134	55
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	13,921	8,121	1,016	611	3,561	3,537	24	50	204	358	14,310	8,180	1,069	656	3,669	3,638	31	55	270	411
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric       medicine (D.P.M.)	567	348	19	41	118	117	1	9	18	14	574	367	41	27	119	112	7	2	9	9
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,686	2,258	51	170	135	132	3	9	50	13	2,815	2,357	85	155	144	138	6	14	47	13
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	2,420	1,923	97	136	166	158	8	12	25	61	2,544	1,934	139	154	175	161	14	20	36	86
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	43,772	30,965	3,219	3,887	3,332	3,236	96	299	1,081	989	40,024	27,390	3,292	3,816	2,853	2,791	62	314	1,354	1,005
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	6,339	3,965	1,252	260	398	385	13	29	65	370	6,296	3,896	1,218	275	397	382	15	17	101	392
Other1	294	204	21	11	23	23	0	2	17	16	406	261	32	22	31	27	4	6	27	27

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 2014 and Fall 2015, Completions component. (This table was prepared May 2017.)