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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: 2013-14 and 2014-15 |
Field of study | 2013-14 | 2014-15 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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 | 50,644 | 35,567 | 2,940 | 3,297 | 6,343 | 6,246 | 97 | 232 | 926 | 1,339 | 49,203 | 33,848 | 2,884 | 3,293 | 6,262 | 6,171 | 91 | 278 | 1,212 | 1,426 |
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) | 2,839 | 1,859 | 98 | 171 | 492 | 483 | 9 | 10 | 27 | 182 | 3,030 | 1,865 | 93 | 172 | 613 | 612 | 1 | 11 | 55 | 221 |
Medicine (M.D.) | 9,232 | 5,947 | 427 | 572 | 1,953 | 1,936 | 17 | 32 | 167 | 134 | 9,558 | 6,246 | 410 | 609 | 1,945 | 1,931 | 14 | 35 | 201 | 112 |
Optometry (O.D.) | 535 | 352 | 12 | 17 | 103 | 103 | 0 | 4 | 11 | 36 | 505 | 306 | 11 | 19 | 108 | 107 | 1 | 2 | 13 | 46 |
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) | 2,662 | 1,965 | 46 | 78 | 509 | 506 | 3 | 12 | 43 | 9 | 2,935 | 2,095 | 65 | 121 | 541 | 537 | 4 | 14 | 69 | 30 |
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) | 5,429 | 3,215 | 410 | 256 | 1,313 | 1,302 | 11 | 16 | 75 | 144 | 5,454 | 3,177 | 409 | 247 | 1,325 | 1,311 | 14 | 25 | 123 | 148 |
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) |
338 | 224 | 6 | 25 | 62 | 61 | 1 | 2 | 9 | 10 | 352 | 244 | 18 | 19 | 62 | 57 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 5 |
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) | 565 | 476 | 8 | 40 | 27 | 26 | 1 | 3 | 9 | 2 | 620 | 524 | 15 | 41 | 24 | 23 | 1 | 3 | 11 | 2 |
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.) | 1,464 | 1,176 | 43 | 77 | 107 | 103 | 4 | 6 | 16 | 39 | 1,532 | 1,194 | 46 | 94 | 113 | 104 | 9 | 15 | 23 | 47 |
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) | 23,278 | 17,589 | 1,253 | 1,863 | 1,460 | 1,417 | 43 | 131 | 526 | 456 | 20,810 | 15,362 | 1,211 | 1,755 | 1,206 | 1,177 | 29 | 162 | 642 | 472 |
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.) | 4,229 | 2,710 | 633 | 194 | 312 | 304 | 8 | 16 | 38 | 326 | 4,320 | 2,773 | 602 | 214 | 320 | 307 | 13 | 11 | 64 | 336 |
Other1 | 73 | 54 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 1 | 87 | 62 | 4 | 2 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 7 |
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.) |