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Top Schools For Hispanics In Graduate-Level STEM Programs

Technology May 2022 PREMIUM
The following lists shed light on a dynamic landscape, where Hispanic/Latino students are present at private and public institutions across a variety of states.

Careers in science, technology, engineering and mathematics (collectively known as STEM) are increasingly valued and sought after by students and employers alike, given their growing importance for solving 21st century issues ranging from environmental conservation and food security to global health challenges and our growing dependence on internet technology and artificial intelligence, among other issues. For the first time, Hispanic Outlook presents the top schools for Hispanics/Latinos in STEM across the nation, based on the number of graduate degrees (the sum of all Masters and PhD degrees) granted to Hispanics/Latinos in eight key STEM fields (using 2019-20 data from NCES’ Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System – IPEDS).

The following lists shed light on a dynamic landscape, where Hispanic/Latino students are present at private and public institutions across a variety of states. Some institutions stand out for granting the highest number of graduate degrees to Hispanic/Latino students across several of these key STEM fields. The following institutions appear in three or more of these top ten lists:

•  Texas A & M University - College Station, in 2nd place for Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Sciences, 4th place for Natural Resources and Conservation, 5th place for Physical Sciences, 7th place for Mathematics and Statistics, and 9th place for Engineering

•  Florida International University, in 2nd place for Engineering, 3rd place for Natural Resources and Conservation, 4th place for Computer and Information Sciences, and 4th place for Health Professions and Related Programs

•  The University of Florida, in 1st place for Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Sciences, 3rd place for Engineering, and 6th place for Biological and Biomedical Sciences

•  The University of Texas at El Paso, in 1st place for Engineering, 6th place for Physical Sciences, and 10th place for Health Professions and Related Programs

Hispanic/Latino students sometimes constitute a large proportion of all students obtaining graduate degrees in these key STEM areas. Institutions with more than a third of all graduate degrees granted to Hispanic/Latino students are:

•  Miami Regional University, with 95% in Health Professions and Related Programs

•  The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, with 66% in Health Professions and Related Programs and 61% in Mathematics and Statistics

•  Florida International University, with 49% in Health Professions and Related Programs, 47% in Computer and Information Sciences, and 43% in Natural Resources and Conservation

•  The University of Texas at El Paso, with 63% in Engineering and 35% in Physical Sciences

  •  Barry University, with 34% in Biological and Biomedical Sciences

These lists also show that the largest numbers of Hispanic/Latino students are present in STEM programs at several of the most prestigious institutions in the country, including Ivy League schools and those that rank among the top 12 nationally (according to QS, 2021):

•  Harvard University (ranked #1), in 1st place for Natural Resources and Conservation

•  Stanford University (ranked #2), in 7th place for Engineering

•  University of California-Berkeley (ranked #4), in 5th place for Natural Resources and Conservation

•  University of California-Los Angeles (ranked #5), in 2nd place for Physical Sciences

•  Yale University (ranked #6), in 2nd place for Natural Resources and Conservation

•  Columbia University (ranked #7), in 10th place for Biological and Biomedical Sciences

•  New York University (ranked #9), in 3rd place for Biological and Biomedical Sciences and in 6th place for Computer and Information Sciences

•  Cornell University (ranked #12), in 6th place for Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Sciences

At the same time, however, the data presented here highlights the work that remains to be done to increase the presence of Hispanic/Latino students in graduate STEM programs. At the top-tier institutions mentioned above, Hispanic/Latino students still represent a small proportion of all graduate students obtaining degrees in these fields (less than 10% at each one, except for UCLA, where degrees for Hispanics/Latinos in Physical Sciences are 12% of the total).

Even at those institutions where a high proportion of graduate degrees are granted to Hispanics/Latinos, the absolute number of these degrees remains relatively low. Indeed, in each of the key STEM fields listed, Hispanic/Latino students obtained less than 600 graduate degrees at all of the top 10 institutions added together, with the exception of Health Professions and Related Programs, where Hispanics/Latinos obtained 3,404 graduate degrees across all top 10 institutions. The STEM field with the least number of Hispanic/Latino graduate degrees is Natural Resources and Conservation, with only 99 at the top 10 schools all together.

 Finally, Hispanic/Latino men generally obtain substantially more graduate degrees than women in the areas of Engineering and Computer and Information Sciences, which underlines the need to continue boosting the presence of Latinas in these key STEM programs. At the same time, there are more Latina women than men in the fields of Health Professions and Related Programs, and in Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Sciences, indicating that Hispanic/Latino men also need to be actively recruited for these areas.

 

HO TOP 10 SCHOOLS FOR HISPANICS IN GRADUATE-LEVEL STEM PROGRAMS 2019-2020

 

Agricultural/Animal/Plant/Veterinary Science and Related Fields

State

All Hispanic/Latino graduate degrees

Grand total (all students) graduate degrees

Hispanic/Latino men

Hispanic/Latino women

Percent Hispanic/Latino

1

University of Florida

FL

34

321

13

21

11%

2

Texas A & M University-College Station

TX

31

294

9

22

11%

3

University of California-Davis

CA

29

248

7

22

12%

4

Ohio State University-Main Campus

OH

27

276

3

24

10%

5

Western University of Health Sciences

CA

26

100

4

22

26%

6

Cornell University

NY

22

283

7

15

8%

7

Colorado State University-Fort Collins

CO

20

235

5

15

9%

8

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

LA

14

135

3

11

10%

9

Washington State University

WA

14

213

4

10

7%

10

Michigan State University

MI

13

219

8

5

6%

 

 

Biological and Biomedical Sciences

State

All Hispanic/Latino Graduate Degrees 

Grand total (all students) Graduate Degrees

Hispanic/Latino men

Hispanic/Latino women

Percent Hispanic/Latino

1

Johns Hopkins University

MD

51

753

23

28

7%

2

University of South Florida

FL

49

264

27

22

19%

3

New York University

NY

45

470

14

31

10%

4

Barry University

FL

43

128

14

29

34%

5

Boston University

MA

42

533

22

20

8%

6

University of Florida

FL

42

390

19

23

11%

7

University of Miami

FL

39

233

6

33

17%

8

Georgetown University

DC

37

493

11

26

8%

9

University of California-San Diego

CA

32

275

15

17

12%

10

Columbia University in the City of New York

NY

31

480

16

15

6%

 

 

Computer and Information Sciences and Support Services

State

All Hispanic/Latino Graduate Degrees 

Grand total (all students) Graduate Degrees

Hispanic/Latino men

Hispanic/Latino women

Percent Hispanic/Latino

1

Western Governors University

UT

136

1531

114

22

9%

2

University of Maryland Global Campus

MD

95

1334

68

27

7%

3

Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus

GA

85

1885

77

8

5%

4

Florida International University

FL

67

142

56

11

47%

5

Grand Canyon University

AZ

46

374

25

21

12%

6

New York University

NY

37

1365

17

20

3%

7

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

IL

33

803

13

20

4%

8

Boston University

MA

29

670

24

5

4%

9

Johns Hopkins University

MD

26

484

17

9

5%

10

Nova Southeastern University

FL

26

165

19

7

16%

 

 

Engineering

State

All Hispanic/Latino Graduate Degrees 

Grand total (all students) Graduate Degrees

Hispanic/Latino men

Hispanic/Latino women

Percent Hispanic/Latino

1

The University of Texas at El Paso

TX

116

185

79

37

63%

2

Florida International University

FL

71

225

52

19

32%

3

University of Florida

FL

56

686

37

19

8%

4

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

MI

54

1369

39

15

4%

5

Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus

GA

52

1459

36

16

4%

6

University of Southern California

CA

51

1451

41

10

4%

7

Stanford University

CA

50

929

31

19

5%

8

Arizona State University Campus Immersion

AZ

48

977

32

16

5%

9

Texas A & M University-College Station

TX

45

1020

35

10

4%

10

University of Central Florida

FL

44

375

33

11

12%

 

 

Health Professions and Related Programs

State

All Hispanic/Latino Graduate Degrees 

Grand total (all students) Graduate Degrees

Hispanic/Latino men

Hispanic/Latino women

Percent Hispanic/Latino

1

Miami Regional University

FL

469

493

212

257

95%

2

Nova Southeastern University

FL

468

2027

141

327

23%

3

Grand Canyon University

AZ

434

3516

73

361

12%

4

Florida International University

FL

427

874

98

329

49%

5

Chamberlain University-Illinois

IL

363

4068

49

314

9%

6

The University of Texas at Arlington

TX

326

1652

43

283

20%

7

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

TX

263

399

66

197

66%

8

University of Southern California

CA

231

1716

81

150

13%

9

Western Governors University

UT

226

4222

36

190

5%

10

The University of Texas at El Paso

TX

197

346

48

149

57%

 

 

Mathematics and Statistics

State

All Hispanic/Latino Graduate Degrees 

Grand total (all students) Graduate Degrees

Hispanic/Latino men

Hispanic/Latino women

Percent Hispanic/Latino

1

University of Miami

FL

25

202

17

8

12%

2

California State University-Fullerton

CA

20

75

8

12

27%

3

San Diego State University

CA

15

57

7

8

26%

4

The University of Texas at Austin

TX

11

111

10

1

10%

5

The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

TX

11

18

4

7

61%

6

University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign

IL

11

292

5

6

4%

7

Texas A & M University-College Station

TX

10

113

5

5

9%

8

California State University-Long Beach

CA

9

56

4

5

16%

9

The Pennsylvania State University

PA

9

148

8

1

6%

10

University of California-Irvine

CA

9

142

6

3

6%

 

 

 

Natural Resources and Conservation

State

All Hispanic/Latino Graduate Degrees 

Grand total (all students) Graduate Degrees

Hispanic/Latino men

Hispanic/Latino women

Percent Hispanic/Latino

1

Harvard University

MA

14

195

5

9

7%

2

Yale University

CT

12

178

5

7

7%

3

Florida International University

FL

10

23

2

8

43%

4

Texas A & M University-College Station

TX

10

45

2

8

22%

5

University of California-Berkeley

CA

10

109

2

8

9%

6

Oregon State University

OR

9

135

8

1

7%

7

University of California-Santa Barbara

CA

9

80

4

5

11%

8

University of Colorado Boulder

CO

9

73

1

8

12%

9

American Public University System

WV

8

84

4

4

10%

10

Duke University

NC

8

156

3

5

5%

 

 

Physical Sciences

State

All Hispanic/Latino Graduate Degrees 

Grand total (all students) Graduate Degrees

Hispanic/Latino men

Hispanic/Latino women

Percent Hispanic/Latino

1

University of California-San Diego

CA

23

218

17

6

11%

2

University of California-Los Angeles

CA

18

156

14

4

12%

3

University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

MI

17

208

9

8

8%

4

Florida State University

FL

14

163

8

6

9%

5

Texas A & M University-College Station

TX

14

156

2

12

9%

6

The University of Texas at El Paso

TX

13

37

8

5

35%

7

University of Arizona

AZ

13

182

6

7

7%

8

University of California-Irvine

CA

13

118

6

7

11%

9

University of Oregon

OR

13

150

8

5

9%

10

Ohio State University-Main Campus

OH

12

131

8

4

9%

 

Source: NCES, IPEDS DATABASE AS OF 2019-2020 ACADEMIC YEAR

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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