Table 324.55.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions in selected professional fields, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2015-16 and 2016-17

Field of study	2015-16										2016-17
	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	95,140	60,826	7,275	7,115	14,338	14,150	188	482	2,372	2,732	94,760	59,667	7,253	7,426	14,618	14,433	185	407	2,466	2,923
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	5,951	3,311	265	396	1,370	1,362	8	7	138	464	6,388	3,446	300	505	1,477	1,463	14	17	161	482
Medicine (M.D.)	18,409	11,074	1,151	1,275	4,124	4,096	28	67	496	222	18,698	11,229	1,156	1,437	4,128	4,102	26	57	484	207
Optometry (O.D.)	1,631	932	39	79	417	416	1	7	45	112	1,630	910	45	76	407	404	3	7	50	135
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	5,466	3,802	133	221	1,079	1,075	4	23	159	49	6,046	4,071	182	248	1,250	1,236	14	14	206	75
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	14,734	8,219	1,177	687	3,865	3,837	28	45	357	384	14,855	8,178	1,238	781	3,873	3,837	36	36	350	399
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric    medicine (D.P.M.)	544	320	36	27	131	129	2	3	8	19	601	366	34	30	144	142	2	0	15	12
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,859	2,441	81	148	116	111	5	8	56	9	2,991	2,454	81	184	161	161	0	14	79	18
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	2,417	1,839	122	172	138	131	7	11	54	81	2,521	1,872	113	183	187	176	11	14	39	113
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	36,798	25,011	3,044	3,821	2,678	2,601	77	281	949	1,014	34,894	23,376	2,939	3,682	2,580	2,526	54	226	983	1,108
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	5,950	3,617	1,204	271	386	375	11	30	87	355	5,801	3,554	1,142	273	381	371	10	21	80	350
Other1	381	260	23	18	34	17	17	0	23	23	335	211	23	27	30	15	15	1	19	24

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 2016 and Fall 2017, Completions component. (This table was prepared January 2019.)