UNM on Hispanic Outlook’s Top 100 College List

The Uni­ver­sity of New Mex­ico is fea­tured promi­nently among the Top 100 col­leges for His­pan­ics, as reported in His­panic Out­look in Higher Education’s May 7 issue. The mag­a­zine gath­ers infor­ma­tion from the U.S. Depart­ment of Education’s National Cen­ter for Edu­ca­tion Sta­tis­tics (NCES).

For bachelor’s degrees, UNM main cam­pus ranked 16. Total bachelor’s degrees con­ferred was 3,350. Of those, 1,171 were His­panic, rep­re­sent­ing 35 per­cent of the grad­u­at­ing class. Of those, 470 were male and 701 female.

UNM also ranked 16 for con­fer­ring master’s degrees to His­pan­ics. With a total grad­u­at­ing class of 1,190, 297 or 25 per­cent were His­panic. Of those, 96 were male, and 201 female.

UNM ranked sev­enth for con­fer­ring doc­toral degrees to His­pan­ics. With a total class of 468 Ph.D. Grad­u­ates, 107, or 23 per­cent, were His­panic. Gen­der break­down is 49 males to 59 females.

Some of UNM’s degree pro­grams were also ranked in the top 10. The doc­tor­ate of med­i­cine ranked eighth, with 23 His­panic med­ical school grad­u­ates – 11 males, 12 females. Phar­macy ranked sixth, with 21 His­pan­ics, 11 male and 10 female.

UNM’s edu­ca­tion pro­gram ranked sixth, with 144 His­panic grad­u­ates – 37 male and 107 females.

Nation­ally, the pub­li­ca­tion reports that schools on the Top 100 list saw an increase in His­panic grad­u­ates, from the bachelor’s through the doc­toral degrees. As was true at UNM, more females earned degrees than their male counterparts.

Jozi DeLeon, vice pres­i­dent, UNM Office of Equity and Inclu­sion, said, “The His­panic Out­look rank­ings for UNM indi­cate that we are not only enrolling His­pan­ics, but also grad­u­at­ing them in higher num­bers than other insti­tu­tions around the coun­try. UNM could eas­ily lead the coun­try in the num­ber of degrees awarded in all areas as we con­tinue to improve reten­tion and grad­u­a­tion rates of His­pan­ics and strengthen our pipeline into grad­u­ate pro­grams. We also need to improve our suc­cess rates for young men from all eth­nic­i­ties. I look for­ward to work­ing with every­one to make us num­ber one.”

Media con­tact: Car­olyn Gon­za­les (505) 277‑5920; email: cgonzal@unm.edu