Table 324.70.

Degrees conferred to females 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	47,663	28,704	4,402	3,800	7,885	7,787	98	236	1,197	1,439	48,065	28,582	4,375	3,980	8,079	7,981	98	223	1,324	1,502
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	2,919	1,396	161	209	810	807	3	4	60	279	3,060	1,468	173	285	794	787	7	9	78	253
Medicine (M.D.)	8,557	4,866	708	602	2,013	2,003	10	29	236	103	8,864	5,028	701	690	2,079	2,066	13	27	266	73
Optometry (O.D.)	1,066	569	28	50	316	315	1	6	30	67	1,083	561	34	48	306	303	3	5	38	91
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	2,469	1,665	74	112	509	506	3	8	79	22	2,759	1,779	103	121	617	608	9	6	105	28
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	9,066	5,051	730	413	2,407	2,393	14	25	198	242	9,196	4,992	785	484	2,468	2,453	15	28	189	250
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric    medicine (D.P.M.)	223	118	23	9	58	56	2	2	4	9	237	137	11	11	68	67	1	0	3	7
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,286	1,943	72	113	96	92	4	7	47	8	2,395	1,969	65	153	120	120	0	10	66	12
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	1,001	715	76	81	61	56	5	5	24	39	1,058	756	61	83	79	73	6	7	18	54
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	17,863	11,154	1,902	2,120	1,499	1,457	42	138	482	568	17,315	10,710	1,849	2,027	1,441	1,409	32	123	527	638
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.)	1,925	1,034	610	75	91	89	2	12	20	83	1,844	1,020	573	61	89	88	1	7	19	75
Other1	288	193	18	16	25	13	12	0	17	19	254	162	20	17	18	7	11	1	15	21

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.)