Table 324.60.

Degrees conferred to males 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	49,205	33,845	2,884	3,293	6,267	6,176	91	278	1,212	1,426	47,476	32,127	2,873	3,315	6,455	6,365	90	246	1,175	1,285
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	3,030	1,865	93	172	613	612	1	11	55	221	3,032	1,915	104	187	560	555	5	3	78	185
Medicine (M.D.)	9,558	6,242	410	609	1,949	1,935	14	35	201	112	9,852	6,208	443	673	2,111	2,093	18	38	260	119
Optometry (O.D.)	505	306	11	19	108	107	1	2	13	46	564	364	11	29	99	99	0	1	15	45
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	2,935	2,095	65	121	541	537	4	14	69	30	2,997	2,137	59	109	570	569	1	15	80	27
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	5,454	3,177	409	247	1,325	1,311	14	25	123	148	5,668	3,168	447	274	1,458	1,444	14	20	159	142
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric     medicine (D.P.M.)	352	244	18	19	62	57	5	0	4	5	321	202	13	18	73	73	0	1	4	10
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	620	524	15	41	24	23	1	3	11	2	573	498	9	35	20	19	1	1	9	1
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	1,532	1,194	46	94	113	104	9	15	23	47	1,416	1,128	46	91	81	79	2	6	30	34
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	20,810	15,362	1,211	1,755	1,206	1,177	29	162	642	472	18,935	13,857	1,142	1,701	1,179	1,144	35	143	467	446
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	4,322	2,774	602	214	321	308	13	11	64	336	4,025	2,583	594	196	295	286	9	18	67	272
Other1	87	62	4	2	5	5	0	0	7	7	93	67	5	2	9	4	5	0	6	4

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.)