Table 324.60.

Degrees conferred to males 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	46,715	31,096	2,879	3,447	6,540	6,453	87	185	1,142	1,426	46,806	30,657	2,980	3,792	6,558	6,495	63	193	1,179	1,447
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	3,328	1,978	127	220	683	676	7	8	83	229	3,258	1,928	109	224	691	688	3	15	75	216
Medicine (M.D.)	9,834	6,201	455	747	2,049	2,036	13	30	218	134	10,049	6,253	507	791	2,106	2,095	11	26	243	123
Optometry (O.D.)	547	349	11	28	101	101	0	2	12	44	531	348	8	24	97	96	1	2	16	36
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	3,287	2,292	79	127	633	628	5	8	101	47	3,611	2,461	71	174	713	706	7	13	139	40
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	5,659	3,186	453	297	1,405	1,384	21	8	161	149	5,631	3,060	522	336	1,411	1,401	10	15	147	140
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or     podiatric medicine (D.P.M.)	364	229	23	19	76	75	1	0	12	5	341	218	11	20	78	76	2	3	9	2
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	596	485	16	31	41	41	0	4	13	6	632	518	20	43	31	31	0	0	16	4
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	1,463	1,116	52	100	108	103	5	7	21	59	1,436	1,053	61	110	111	109	2	11	26	64
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	17,579	12,666	1,090	1,655	1,139	1,117	22	103	456	470	17,161	12,195	1,077	1,834	1,003	987	16	98	432	522
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav.,     B.D., or Ord.)	3,977	2,545	570	213	293	284	9	15	61	280	4,086	2,577	589	230	307	299	8	10	74	299
Other1	81	49	3	10	12	8	4	0	4	3	70	46	5	6	10	7	3	0	2	1

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.)