Table 324.70.

Degrees conferred to females 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	48,752	29,616	4,629	3,706	7,812	7,717	95	264	1,344	1,381	47,664	28,712	4,402	3,800	7,888	7,790	98	236	1,197	1,429
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	2,786	1,362	147	200	748	745	3	10	62	257	2,919	1,396	161	209	810	807	3	4	60	279
Medicine (M.D.)	8,744	5,047	783	635	1,930	1,915	15	30	218	101	8,557	4,866	708	602	2,013	2,003	10	29	236	103
Optometry (O.D.)	1,006	522	39	43	300	297	3	1	29	72	1,066	569	28	50	316	315	1	6	30	67
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	2,420	1,636	88	95	501	495	6	10	65	25	2,469	1,665	74	112	509	506	3	8	79	22
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	8,856	5,003	660	409	2,344	2,327	17	30	147	263	9,066	5,051	730	413	2,407	2,393	14	25	198	242
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric     medicine (D.P.M.)	222	123	23	8	57	55	2	2	5	4	223	118	23	9	58	56	2	2	4	9
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,195	1,833	70	114	120	115	5	11	36	11	2,286	1,943	72	113	96	92	4	7	47	8
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	1,012	740	93	60	62	57	5	5	13	39	1,002	723	76	81	64	59	5	5	24	29
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	19,214	12,028	2,081	2,061	1,647	1,614	33	152	712	533	17,863	11,154	1,902	2,120	1,499	1,457	42	138	482	568
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	1,978	1,123	617	61	77	75	2	7	37	56	1,925	1,034	610	75	91	89	2	12	20	83
Other1	319	199	28	20	26	22	4	6	20	20	288	193	18	16	25	13	12	0	17	19

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.)