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CSULB
ranked 10th for Hispanic degrees
By
Clarissa Segovia
Online Forty-Niner
In the May issue of Hispanic Outlook in
Higher Education, Cal State Long Beach was
ranked 10th on the list of "Top 100"
schools in awarding Bachelors degrees to
Hispanics. CSULB was also ranked 21st in
conferring Master's degrees. In total, 18
schools in the California State University
system (CSU) made the list.
The
National Center for Educational Statistics
(NCES) based on the latest information available,
from 2001 - 02 found that there were 30
colleges and universities that awarded 500
or more Bachelors degrees to Hispanics.
This is increasingly higher than the previous
statistics from 1991 - 92 when there were
only seven colleges and universities that
had done the same.
The
CSU graduating class of 2003 had 11,945
bachelor's degrees recipients of the 25,801
bachelors degrees that were awarded to students
of color. Possibly the change in higher
learning could be attributed to the proportion
of White students having decreased, while
the proportion of students in each other
racial/ethnic group has increased. According
to the NCES combined, minority students
represented nearly a third of all undergraduates
in 1999–2000, up from about a quarter
in 1989–90.
CSU
Chancellor Charles B. Reed said "The
CSU is the most diverse university system
in the nation, with 53 percent students
of color, more than twice the national average
for four-year public universities,"
said CSU Chancellor Charles B. Reed "We
are proud that we are the university of
choice for so many talented and bright Hispanic
students. They truly enrich CSU's academic
environment."
It
is the diverse environment that attracts
many students like Esperanza Viramontes
to CSULB. As a transfer student, Viramontes
says that "diversity was an important
factor" in choosing CSULB. "It
is important because you want to feel like
you are a part of a community and you can
learn about different cultures."
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