In its May 8 issue, Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education presents its annual lists of top 100 colleges for Hispanics. The University of New Mexico features prominently across degrees and disciplines. Statistics were derived from the 2005 National Center for Education Statistics.
UNM ranks 9 for awarding doctoral degrees to Hispanics. UNM conferred 205 PhD’s with 25 going to Hispanics. Of those, 9 were male, 16 female. The Hispanic recipients represented 12 percent of the total.
UNM is ranked 19 for institutions conferring master’s degrees to Hispanics. Of the 1,197 master’s earned, 240 went to Hispanics. Of those, 72 were male, 168 female and they represented 20 percent of all master’s earned.
UNM is ranked 13 of the top 100 for awarding bachelor’s degrees to Hispanics. UNM awarded 2,818 degrees, 933 to Hispanics. Of those, 356 were male, 577 female with 33 percent of graduates Hispanic.
UNM is ranked 10 among Very High Research Universities. With a total student body of 26,242 on main campus, 7,837 were Hispanic. Of those 3,140 were male, 4,697 female and together they represented 30 percent of the student population.
Changes in the Carnegie rankings result in the old Research-Intensive being split into Very High Research Universities and High Research Universities, according to UNM Provost Reed Dasenbrock.
“We are the only Very High Research University in the state and we are also the only one with a minority enrollment of over 30 percent. We have the highest Hispanic and the highest Native American enrollment of any institution thus designated,” Dasenbrock said.
“This is further evidence that we are the leading research university in the country for minority students, specifically for Hispanic students, and we are making progress on our plans to be the leading university in the country for Hispanic issues and students,” he said.
In the categories for first professional degrees, the UNM School of Medicine ranked 10. UNM’s health sciences program ranked 5 for conferring bachelor’s degrees to Hispanics.
UNM also placed in the top 10 in biological and biomedical sciences, 6; education, 4; and engineering, 10.