Table 324.60.

Degrees conferred to males 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	47,477	32,122	2,873	3,315	6,453	6,363	90	246	1,175	1,293	46,695	31,085	2,878	3,446	6,539	6,452	87	184	1,142	1,421
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	3,032	1,915	104	187	560	555	5	3	78	185	3,328	1,978	127	220	683	676	7	8	83	229
Medicine (M.D.)	9,852	6,208	443	673	2,111	2,093	18	38	260	119	9,834	6,201	455	747	2,049	2,036	13	30	218	134
Optometry (O.D.)	565	363	11	29	101	101	0	1	15	45	547	349	11	28	101	101	0	2	12	44
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	2,997	2,137	59	109	570	569	1	15	80	27	3,287	2,292	79	127	633	628	5	8	101	47
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	5,668	3,168	447	274	1,458	1,444	14	20	159	142	5,659	3,186	453	297	1,405	1,384	21	8	161	149
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric    medicine (D.P.M.)	321	202	13	18	73	73	0	1	4	10	364	229	23	19	76	75	1	0	12	5
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	573	498	9	35	20	19	1	1	9	1	596	485	16	31	41	41	0	4	13	6
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	1,416	1,124	46	91	77	75	2	6	30	42	1,463	1,116	52	100	108	103	5	7	21	59
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	18,935	13,857	1,142	1,701	1,179	1,144	35	143	467	446	17,579	12,666	1,090	1,655	1,139	1,117	22	103	456	470
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	4,025	2,583	594	196	295	286	9	18	67	272	3,957	2,534	569	212	292	283	9	14	61	275
Other1	93	67	5	2	9	4	5	0	6	4	81	49	3	10	12	8	4	0	4	3

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.)