First-professional degrees conferred by institutions of higher education, by racial/ethnic group, major field of study, and sex of student: 1991-92

Table 267.

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                                    |                            Total                             |                               Men                          |                          Women
                                    |______________________________________________________________|____________________________________________________________|____________________________________________________________
                                    |          | White, |Black, |       | Asian/ |American|        |        | White, |Black, |       | Asian/ |American|        |        | White, |Black, |       | Asian/ |American|
        Major field of study        |  Total   |  non-  | non-  | His-  |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-| Total  |  non-  | non-  | His-  |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-| Total  |  non-  | non-  | His-  |Pacific |Indian/ |Nonresi-
                                    |          |Hispanic| His-  | panic |Islander|Alaskan |  dent  |        |Hispanic| His-  | panic |Islander|Alaskan |  dent  |        |Hispanic| His-  | panic |Islander|Alaskan |  dent
                                    |          |        | panic |       |        | Native | alien  |        |        | panic |       |        | Native | alien  |        |        | panic |       |        | Native | alien
____________________________________|__________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________
                 1                  |    2     |   3    |   4   |   5   |   6    |   7    |   8    |   9    |   10   |  11   |  12   |   13   |   14   |   15   |   16   |   17   |  18   |  19   |   20   |   21   |   22
____________________________________|__________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________
  All fields\1\ ....................|   72,129 | 59,800 | 3,560 | 2,766 |  4,455 |    296 |  1,252 | 43,812 | 36,939 | 1,603 | 1,635 |  2,593 |    157 |    885 | 28,317 | 22,861 | 1,957 | 1,131 |  1,862 |    139 |    367
                                    |__________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) .......|    3,593 |  2,415 |   180 |   244 |    535 |     15 |    204 |  2,431 |  1,691 |    97 |   174 |    324 |     13 |    132 |  1,162 |    724 |    83 |    70 |    211 |      2 |     72
Medicine (M.D.) ....................|   15,243 | 11,658 |   850 |   638 |  1,827 |     67 |    203 |  9,796 |  7,666 |   395 |   410 |  1,147 |     34 |    144 |  5,447 |  3,992 |   455 |   228 |    680 |     33 |     59
Optometry (O.D.) ...................|    1,232 |    972 |    34 |    44 |    144 |      7 |     31 |    676 |    569 |     7 |    20 |     57 |      4 |     19 |    556 |    403 |    27 |    24 |     87 |      3 |     12
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) ........|    1,326 |  1,102 |    55 |    57 |     99 |      5 |      8 |    887 |    750 |    21 |    41 |     68 |      2 |      5 |    439 |    352 |    34 |    16 |     31 |      3 |      3
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) ................|    1,339 |    939 |    66 |    42 |    222 |      4 |     66 |    493 |    355 |    22 |    22 |     63 |      1 |     30 |    846 |    584 |    44 |    20 |    159 |      3 |     36
                                    |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or        |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
 podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) .......|      504 |    396 |    44 |    22 |     32 |      2 |      8 |    359 |    288 |    28 |    13 |     22 |      2 |      6 |    145 |    108 |    16 |     9 |     10 |      0 |      2
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) .......|    2,044 |  1,887 |    51 |    60 |     32 |      9 |      5 |    850 |    790 |    19 |    23 |     10 |      6 |      2 |  1,194 |  1,097 |    32 |    37 |     22 |      3 |      3
Chiropractic medicine (D.C. or      |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
 D.C.M.) ...........................|    2,694 |  2,316 |    35 |    63 |     81 |     27 |    172 |  2,012 |  1,720 |    27 |    53 |     63 |     15 |    134 |    682 |    596 |     8 |    10 |     18 |     12 |     38
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) ................|   38,848 | 33,807 | 1,908 | 1,473 |  1,250 |    151 |    259 | 22,260 | 19,836 |   766 |   781 |    640 |     75 |    162 | 16,588 | 13,971 | 1,142 |   692 |    610 |     76 |     97
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D., or  |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
  Ord.) ............................|    5,251 |  4,263 |   336 |   122 |    233 |      8 |    289 |  4,025 |  3,253 |   221 |    98 |    199 |      5 |    249 |  1,226 |  1,010 |   115 |    24 |     34 |      3 |     40
Other ..............................|       55 |     45 |     1 |     1 |      0 |      1 |      7 |     23 |     21 |     0 |     0 |      0 |      0 |      2 |     32 |     24 |     1 |     1 |      0 |      1 |      5
____________________________________|__________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________

\1\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. Excludes 1,259 men and 758 women whose racial/ethnic group and field of study were not available.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Completions" survey. (This table was prepared April 1994.)

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