Table 324.70.

Degrees conferred to females 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	48,880	30,462	4,316	3,523	7,924	7,823	101	296	1,088	1,271	48,750	29,624	4,628	3,701	7,809	7,714	95	263	1,344	1,381
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	2,568	1,270	161	194	676	669	7	6	44	217	2,786	1,362	147	200	748	745	3	10	62	257
Medicine (M.D.)	8,372	4,812	734	555	1,935	1,923	12	41	173	122	8,744	5,055	783	630	1,927	1,912	15	30	218	101
Optometry (O.D.)	988	470	24	42	345	345	0	3	23	81	1,006	522	39	43	300	297	3	1	29	72
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	2,329	1,570	79	75	521	516	5	10	66	8	2,420	1,636	88	95	501	495	6	10	65	25
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	8,492	4,906	606	355	2,248	2,235	13	34	129	214	8,856	5,003	660	409	2,344	2,327	17	30	147	263
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric       medicine (D.P.M.)	229	124	13	16	56	56	0	7	9	4	222	123	23	8	57	55	2	2	5	4
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,121	1,782	43	130	108	106	2	6	41	11	2,195	1,833	70	114	120	115	5	11	36	11
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	956	747	54	59	59	55	4	6	9	22	1,012	740	93	60	62	57	5	5	13	39
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	20,494	13,376	1,966	2,024	1,872	1,819	53	168	555	533	19,214	12,028	2,081	2,061	1,647	1,614	33	152	712	533
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	2,110	1,255	619	66	86	81	5	13	27	44	1,976	1,123	616	61	77	75	2	6	37	56
Other1	221	150	17	7	18	18	0	2	12	15	319	199	28	20	26	22	4	6	20	20

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.)