Table 324.70.

Degrees conferred to females 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	48,074	28,583	4,378	3,981	8,080	7,982	98	223	1,325	1,504	48,228	28,260	4,426	4,060	8,202	8,106	96	180	1,454	1,646
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	3,060	1,468	173	285	794	787	7	9	78	253	3,183	1,517	180	279	852	848	4	9	85	261
Medicine (M.D.)	8,864	5,028	701	690	2,079	2,066	13	27	266	73	9,093	5,139	701	700	2,129	2,114	15	19	281	124
Optometry (O.D.)	1,083	561	34	48	306	303	3	5	38	91	1,092	533	35	45	334	333	1	6	34	105
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	2,759	1,779	103	121	617	608	9	6	105	28	2,781	1,718	101	144	660	654	6	11	112	35
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	9,196	4,992	785	484	2,468	2,453	15	28	189	250	9,298	4,904	798	503	2,528	2,507	21	20	262	283
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or     podiatric medicine (D.P.M.)	237	137	11	11	68	67	1	0	3	7	202	101	14	12	63	63	0	1	6	5
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,395	1,969	65	153	120	120	0	10	66	12	2,537	2,120	64	152	113	113	0	10	67	11
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.)	1,058	756	61	83	79	73	6	7	18	54	1,067	746	75	91	67	62	5	10	20	58
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	17,315	10,710	1,849	2,027	1,441	1,409	32	123	527	638	16,967	10,336	1,922	2,048	1,354	1,320	34	84	542	681
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav.,     B.D., or Ord.)	1,853	1,021	576	62	90	89	1	7	20	77	1,756	965	530	71	79	74	5	8	33	70
Other1	254	162	20	17	18	7	11	1	15	21	252	181	6	15	23	18	5	2	12	13

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.)