Fact Based List:

First-year enrollment at health professions schools by selected profession

  1. Medicine (Allopathic) 18,287
  2. Pharmacy 11,557
  3. Public Health 7,481
  4. Dentistry 4,770
  5. Medicine (Osteopathic) 4,528
  6. Optometry 1,443
  7. Podiatry 666

Source: Health, United States, 2010, National Center for Health Statistics
Source URL: http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/2010/111.pdf