{"id":4768,"date":"2012-02-17T14:37:03","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T20:37:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/?p=4768"},"modified":"2012-02-17T14:44:31","modified_gmt":"2012-02-17T20:44:31","slug":"diagnosis-most-state-professional-degrees-are-in-medicine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/2012\/02\/17\/diagnosis-most-state-professional-degrees-are-in-medicine\/","title":{"rendered":"Diagnosis: Most State Professional Degrees are in Medicine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Source: State Regents for Higher Education<\/p>\n

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In Oklahoma, most first professional degrees granted by state colleges and universities are in the medical field.<\/p>

This state trains a lot of pharmacists: 200 in 2008-2009, while medical doctors and future lawyers are just about tied for the No. 2 slot, the most recent data<\/a> from the state Regents for Higher Education show.<\/p>

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Third place is nearly a tie, too. Eighty-three veterinary medicine degrees were granted in ’08-’09 and 82 osteopathic medicine degrees.<\/p>

Well over half of all first professional degrees were granted by the University of Oklahoma Health Science Center. OU’s College of Law, the state’s law school, came in second, and awarded 160 law-related degrees that year.<\/p>\n

Top 10 First Professional Degrees Granted by State Universities<\/h4>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
RANK<\/strong><\/th>\nFIELD OF STUDY<\/strong><\/th>\nNUMBER<\/strong><\/th>\n%<\/strong><\/th>\n<\/tr>\n
1.<\/td>\nPharmacy (B.Pharm. and Pharm.D.)<\/td>\n200<\/td>\n21.2<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2.<\/td>\nMedicine (M.D.)<\/td>\n164<\/td>\n17.4<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3.<\/td>\nLaw (LL.B. and J.D.)<\/td>\n160<\/td>\n16.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4.<\/td>\nVeterinary Medicine (D.V.M.)<\/td>\n83<\/td>\n8.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5.<\/td>\nOsteopathic Medicine<\/td>\n82<\/td>\n8.7<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6.<\/td>\nPhysical Therapy<\/td>\n76<\/td>\n8.1<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7.<\/td>\nDentistry (D.D.S. and D.M.D.)<\/td>\n62<\/td>\n6.6<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8.<\/td>\nPublic Health<\/td>\n56<\/td>\n5.9<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9.<\/td>\nOptometry (O.D.)<\/td>\n26<\/td>\n2.8<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10.<\/td>\nOccupational Therapy<\/td>\n19<\/td>\n2.0<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n
Source: State Regents for Higher Education<\/h6>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In Oklahoma, most first professional degrees granted by state colleges and universities are in the medical field.This state trains a lot of pharmacists: 200 in 2008-2009, while medical doctors and future lawyers are just about tied for the No. 2 slot, the most recent data from the state Regents for Higher Education show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":36,"featured_media":4769,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[300,15],"tags":[855,272,317],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/36"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4776,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4768\/revisions\/4776"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateimpact.npr.org\/oklahoma\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}