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Table 324.60. | Degrees conferred to males by postsecondary institutions in selected professional fields, by race/ethnicity and field of study: 2011-12 and 2012-13 |
Field of study | 2011-12 | 2012-13 | ||||||||||||||||||
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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 | 50,329 | 36,623 | 2,742 | 2,944 | 5,991 | 5,812 | 179 | 299 | 484 | 1,246 | 51,478 | 36,890 | 2,907 | 3,106 | 6,283 | 6,136 | 147 | 259 | 783 | 1,250 |
Dentistry (D.D.S. or D.M.D.) | 2,748 | 1,832 | 97 | 123 | 453 | 447 | 6 | 20 | 22 | 201 | 2,651 | 1,738 | 96 | 127 | 468 | 464 | 4 | 11 | 16 | 195 |
Medicine (M.D.) | 8,809 | 5,895 | 416 | 497 | 1,752 | 1,741 | 11 | 53 | 94 | 102 | 8,976 | 6,003 | 383 | 510 | 1,809 | 1,795 | 14 | 36 | 120 | 115 |
Optometry (O.D.) | 476 | 325 | 7 | 14 | 91 | 88 | 3 | 0 | 4 | 35 | 557 | 362 | 11 | 17 | 127 | 126 | 1 | 2 | 5 | 33 |
Osteopathic medicine (D.O.) | 2,283 | 1,718 | 44 | 85 | 389 | 377 | 12 | 13 | 20 | 14 | 2,489 | 1,837 | 44 | 78 | 454 | 449 | 5 | 10 | 49 | 17 |
Pharmacy (Pharm.D.) | 4,971 | 3,064 | 335 | 203 | 1,153 | 1,141 | 12 | 24 | 41 | 151 | 5,141 | 3,094 | 371 | 223 | 1,210 | 1,186 | 24 | 19 | 63 | 161 |
Podiatry (Pod.D. or D.P.) or podiatric medicine (D.P.M.) |
342 | 258 | 17 | 14 | 37 | 37 | 0 | 1 | 4 | 11 | 296 | 197 | 5 | 11 | 65 | 63 | 2 | 7 | 3 | 8 |
Veterinary medicine (D.V.M.) | 588 | 504 | 17 | 36 | 17 | 17 | 0 | 6 | 5 | 3 | 593 | 487 | 17 | 60 | 18 | 18 | 0 | 2 | 6 | 3 |
Chiropractic (D.C. or D.C.M.) | 1,538 | 1,230 | 64 | 85 | 110 | 108 | 2 | 6 | 10 | 33 | 1,366 | 1,101 | 26 | 65 | 119 | 114 | 5 | 11 | 13 | 31 |
Law (LL.B. or J.D.) | 24,576 | 19,153 | 1,210 | 1,741 | 1,673 | 1,555 | 118 | 164 | 241 | 394 | 25,087 | 19,160 | 1,380 | 1,840 | 1,689 | 1,614 | 75 | 141 | 465 | 412 |
Theology (M.Div., M.H.L./Rav., B.D., or Ord.) | 3,998 | 2,644 | 535 | 146 | 316 | 301 | 15 | 12 | 43 | 302 | 4,322 | 2,911 | 574 | 175 | 324 | 307 | 17 | 20 | 43 | 275 |
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 2012 and Fall 2013, Completions component. (This table was prepared March 2015.) |