Table 324.55.

Degrees conferred by postsecondary institutions in selected professional fields, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2016-17 and 2017-18

Field of study	2016-17										2017-18
	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	94,789	59,679	7,257	7,428	14,620	14,435	185	408	2,467	2,930	95,034	58,917	7,406	7,852	14,760	14,601	159	373	2,633	3,093
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	6,388	3,446	300	505	1,477	1,463	14	17	161	482	6,441	3,445	289	503	1,543	1,536	7	24	160	477
Medicine (M.D.)	18,698	11,229	1,156	1,437	4,128	4,102	26	57	484	207	19,142	11,392	1,208	1,491	4,235	4,209	26	45	524	247
Optometry (O.D.)	1,630	910	45	76	407	404	3	7	50	135	1,623	881	43	69	431	429	2	8	50	141
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	6,046	4,071	182	248	1,250	1,236	14	14	206	75	6,392	4,179	172	318	1,373	1,360	13	24	251	75
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	14,855	8,178	1,238	781	3,873	3,837	36	36	350	399	14,929	7,964	1,320	839	3,939	3,908	31	35	409	423
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or     podiatric medicine (D.P.M.)	601	366	34	30	144	142	2	0	15	12	543	319	25	32	141	139	2	4	15	7
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,991	2,454	81	184	161	161	0	14	79	18	3,169	2,638	84	195	144	144	0	10	83	15
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	2,521	1,872	113	183	187	176	11	14	39	113	2,503	1,799	136	201	178	171	7	21	46	122
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	34,894	23,376	2,939	3,682	2,580	2,526	54	226	983	1,108	34,128	22,531	2,999	3,882	2,357	2,307	50	182	974	1,203
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav.,     B.D., or Ord.)	5,830	3,566	1,146	275	383	373	10	22	81	357	5,842	3,542	1,119	301	386	373	13	18	107	369
Other1	335	211	23	27	30	15	15	1	19	24	322	227	11	21	33	25	8	2	14	14

1 Includes naturopathic medicine and degrees that were not classified by field of study 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 2017 and Fall 2018, Completions component. (This table was prepared April 2020.)