Indicator 6.16
Professional Degrees Awarded by Discipline - UC and Comparison Institutions, 2006-07
The 10 UC campuses produced almost 5,700 degrees in professional fields in 2006-07.
The largest share of UC's graduate professional degrees were awarded in business (32 percent), followed by education (19 percent), law (14 percent) and medicine (11 percent). These proportions were relatively similar across both the public and private AAU institutions.
Source: Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS) Graduation Rate Survey. Additional information can be found at http://nces.ed.gov/IPEDS.
The Association of American Universities (AAU) is a nonprofit association of 60 U.S. and two Canadian preeminent public and private research universities; six UC campuses are members (Berkeley, Davis, Irvine, Los Angeles, San Diego and Santa Barbara). The averages for the AAU public institutions is for all AAUs including the six UC campuses. Canadian institutions are excluded in the data presented. More information can be found, including a member list, at http://www.aau.edu.
“Other Health” includes all health science fields other than medicine, such as dentistry, nursing, optometry, pharmacy, public health and veterinary medicine. “Other Professional” includes interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary fields, as well as fields such as architecture, communications, divinity, library and information science, public policy and social welfare.