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Table 276.First-professional degrees conferred by institutions of higher education, by racial/ethnic group, major field of study, and sex of student: 1993-94 

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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\ ....................|   75,418 | 60,140 | 4,444 | 3,134 |  5,892 |    371 |  1,437 | 44,707 | 36,573 | 1,902 | 1,781 |  3,214 |    222 |  1,015 | 30,711 | 23,567 | 2,542 | 1,353 |  2,678 |    149 |    422
                                    |__________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________|________|________|_______|_______|________|________|________
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) .......|    3,787 |  2,559 |   171 |   218 |    538 |     17 |    284 |  2,330 |  1,672 |    73 |   117 |    272 |     10 |    186 |  1,457 |    887 |    98 |   101 |    266 |      7 |     98
Medicine (M.D.) ....................|   15,368 | 11,287 |   937 |   613 |  2,282 |     68 |    181 |  9,544 |  7,223 |   398 |   363 |  1,398 |     41 |    121 |  5,824 |  4,064 |   539 |   250 |    884 |     27 |     60
Optometry (O.D.) ...................|    1,103 |    818 |    36 |    38 |    153 |      3 |     55 |    554 |    448 |     9 |    14 |     51 |      1 |     31 |    549 |    370 |    27 |    24 |    102 |      2 |     24
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) ........|    1,798 |  1,478 |    48 |    70 |    182 |      8 |     12 |  1,165 |    975 |    29 |    41 |    104 |      7 |      9 |    633 |    503 |    19 |    29 |     78 |      1 |      3
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) ................|    1,936 |  1,297 |   155 |    54 |    347 |      1 |     82 |    643 |    464 |    39 |    30 |     74 |      0 |     36 |  1,293 |    833 |   116 |    24 |    273 |      1 |     46
                                    |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or        |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
 podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) .......|      465 |    339 |    32 |    41 |     43 |      2 |      8 |    330 |    248 |    13 |    33 |     26 |      2 |      8 |    135 |     91 |    19 |     8 |     17 |      0 |      0
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) .......|    2,089 |  1,923 |    39 |    66 |     40 |     14 |      7 |    798 |    740 |    11 |    30 |      8 |      6 |      3 |  1,291 |  1,183 |    28 |    36 |     32 |      8 |      4
Chiropractic medicine (D.C. or      |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
 D.C.M.) ...........................|    2,806 |  2,370 |    40 |    80 |    115 |     19 |    182 |  2,010 |  1,710 |    21 |    55 |     77 |     16 |    131 |    796 |    660 |    19 |    25 |     38 |      3 |     51
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) ................|   40,044 | 33,420 | 2,472 | 1,842 |  1,816 |    223 |    271 | 22,826 | 19,624 |   988 | 1,002 |    890 |    130 |    192 | 17,218 | 13,796 | 1,484 |   840 |    926 |     93 |     79
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D., or  |          |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |        |        |        |       |       |        |        |
  Ord.) ............................|    5,967 |  4,607 |   513 |   109 |    375 |     16 |    347 |  4,486 |  3,455 |   321 |    95 |    314 |      9 |    292 |  1,481 |  1,152 |   192 |    14 |     61 |      7 |     55
Other ..............................|       55 |     42 |     1 |     3 |      1 |      0 |      8 |     21 |     14 |     0 |     1 |      0 |      0 |      6 |     34 |     28 |     1 |     2 |      1 |      0 |      2
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\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.

SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), "Completions" survey. (This table was prepared November 1995.)



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