Table 285.

First-professional degrees conferred by degree-granting institutions, by sex, race/ethnicity, and major field of study: 2004-05

Major field of study	Total							Males							Females
	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident alien	Total	White	Black	Hispanic	Asian/ Pacific Islander	American Indian/ Alaska Native	Non- resident 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, total	87,289	63,429	6,313	4,445	10,501	564	2,037	43,849	33,268	2,257	2,214	4,709	288	1,113	43,440	30,161	4,056	2,231	5,792	276	924
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.)	4,454	2,770	192	227	879	16	370	2,505	1,685	76	112	443	11	178	1,949	1,085	116	115	436	5	192
Medicine (M.D.)	15,461	10,269	1,083	748	3,084	96	181	8,151	5,586	370	412	1,628	52	103	7,310	4,683	713	336	1,456	44	78
Optometry (O.D.)	1,252	769	36	52	320	8	67	482	358	14	22	60	3	25	770	411	22	30	260	5	42
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.)	2,762	2,122	88	108	426	14	4	1,482	1,160	34	57	217	10	4	1,280	962	54	51	209	4	0
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.)	8,885	5,600	791	353	1,872	52	217	2,889	1,893	216	115	559	25	81	5,996	3,707	575	238	1,313	27	136
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric medicine (D.P.M.)	343	229	34	28	43	1	8	195	134	14	15	25	1	6	148	95	20	13	18	0	2
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.)	2,354	2,125	43	79	75	21	11	574	509	21	22	14	5	3	1,780	1,616	22	57	61	16	8
Chiropractic medicine (D.C. or D.C.M.)	2,560	1,943	135	129	204	19	130	1,665	1,269	67	82	143	10	94	895	674	68	47	61	9	36
Naturopathic medicine	262	212	13	13	14	2	8	44	39	3	2	0	0	0	218	173	10	11	14	2	8
Law (LL.B. or J.D.)	43,423	33,492	3,052	2,553	3,326	320	680	22,297	18,103	1,040	1,259	1,414	164	317	21,126	15,389	2,012	1,294	1,912	156	363
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L., B.D., or Ord.)	5,533	3,898	846	155	258	15	361	3,565	2,532	402	116	206	7	302	1,968	1,366	444	39	52	8	59

NOTE: 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. SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, 2004–05 Integrated Postsecondary Edu�cation Data System (IPEDS), Fall 2005. (This table was prepared July 2006.)