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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
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.)

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