Table 324.55.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions in selected professional fields, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2014-15 and 2015-16

Field of study	2014-15										2015-16
	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	97,957	63,461	7,513	6,999	14,079	13,893	186	542	2,556	2,807	95,140	60,839	7,275	7,115	14,343	14,155	188	482	2,372	2,714
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	5,816	3,227	240	372	1,361	1,357	4	21	117	478	5,951	3,311	265	396	1,370	1,362	8	7	138	464
Medicine (M.D.)	18,302	11,289	1,193	1,244	3,879	3,850	29	65	419	213	18,409	11,074	1,151	1,275	4,124	4,096	28	67	496	222
Optometry (O.D.)	1,511	828	50	62	408	404	4	3	42	118	1,630	933	39	79	415	414	1	7	45	112
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	5,355	3,731	153	216	1,042	1,032	10	24	134	55	5,466	3,802	133	221	1,079	1,075	4	23	159	49
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	14,310	8,180	1,069	656	3,669	3,638	31	55	270	411	14,734	8,219	1,177	687	3,865	3,837	28	45	357	384
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric     medicine (D.P.M.)	574	367	41	27	119	112	7	2	9	9	544	320	36	27	131	129	2	3	8	19
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,815	2,357	85	155	144	138	6	14	47	13	2,859	2,441	81	148	116	111	5	8	56	9
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	2,544	1,934	139	154	175	161	14	20	36	86	2,418	1,851	122	172	145	138	7	11	54	63
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	40,024	27,390	3,292	3,816	2,853	2,791	62	314	1,354	1,005	36,798	25,011	3,044	3,821	2,678	2,601	77	281	949	1,014
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	6,300	3,897	1,219	275	398	383	15	18	101	392	5,950	3,617	1,204	271	386	375	11	30	87	355
Other1	406	261	32	22	31	27	4	6	27	27	381	260	23	18	34	17	17	0	23	23

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 2015 and Fall 2016, Completions component. (This table was prepared March 2018.)