First-professional degrees conferred by institutions of higher education, by racial/ethnic group, major field of study, and sex of student: 1992-93

Table 270.

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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\ ....................|   74,960 | 60,830 | 4,100 | 2,984 |  5,160 |    368 |  1,518 | 44,821 | 37,157 | 1,777 | 1,762 |  2,858 |    190 |  1,077 | 30,139 | 23,673 | 2,323 | 1,222 |  2,302 |    178 |    441
                                    |----------|--------|-------|-------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-------|-------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-------|-------|--------|--------|--------
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) .......|    3,605 |  2,451 |   159 |   212 |    532 |     10 |    241 |  2,383 |  1,705 |    74 |   131 |    305 |      7 |    161 |  1,222 |    746 |    85 |    81 |    227 |      3 |     80
Medicine (M.D.) ....................|   15,531 | 11,729 |   900 |   610 |  2,001 |     73 |    218 |  9,679 |  7,512 |   378 |   372 |  1,226 |     34 |    157 |  5,852 |  4,217 |   522 |   238 |    775 |     39 |     61
Optometry (O.D.) ...................|    1,148 |    903 |    24 |    31 |    139 |      3 |     48 |    584 |    492 |     5 |    20 |     38 |      3 |     26 |    564 |    411 |    19 |    11 |    101 |      0 |     22
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) ........|    1,627 |  1,359 |    45 |    69 |    132 |      9 |     13 |  1,091 |    924 |    21 |    47 |     85 |      8 |      6 |    536 |    435 |    24 |    22 |     47 |      1 |      7
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) ................|    1,904 |  1,263 |   109 |    56 |    369 |      7 |    100 |    673 |    461 |    28 |    24 |    110 |      4 |     46 |  1,231 |    802 |    81 |    32 |    259 |      3 |     54
                                    |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or        |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
 podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) .......|      476 |    350 |    42 |    30 |     35 |      1 |     18 |    350 |    266 |    20 |    21 |     26 |      1 |     16 |    126 |     84 |    22 |     9 |      9 |      0 |      2
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) .......|    2,057 |  1,888 |    51 |    60 |     39 |     12 |      7 |    766 |    710 |    14 |    25 |     11 |      3 |      3 |  1,291 |  1,178 |    37 |    35 |     28 |      9 |      4
Chiropractic medicine (D.C. or      |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
 D.C.M.) ...........................|    2,799 |  2,383 |    38 |   113 |    115 |     23 |    127 |  1,991 |  1,709 |    23 |    69 |     86 |     16 |     88 |    808 |    674 |    15 |    44 |     29 |      7 |     39
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) ................|   40,302 | 34,267 | 2,284 | 1,665 |  1,550 |    213 |    323 | 23,182 | 20,263 |   914 |   935 |    756 |    104 |    210 | 17,120 | 14,004 | 1,370 |   730 |    794 |    109 |    113
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D., or  |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
  Ord.) ............................|    5,447 |  4,189 |   447 |   137 |    246 |     15 |    413 |  4,096 |  3,097 |   299 |   118 |    215 |     10 |    357 |  1,351 |  1,092 |   148 |    19 |     31 |      5 |     56
Other ..............................|       64 |     48 |     1 |     1 |      2 |      2 |     10 |     26 |     18 |     1 |     0 |      0 |      0 |      7 |     38 |     30 |     0 |     1 |      2 |      2 |      3
------------------------------------|----------|--------|-------|-------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-------|-------|--------|--------|--------|--------|--------|-------|-------|--------|--------|--------

\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 332 men and 95 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 January 1995.)

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