Top Hispanic Degree Producers : HSIs : Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Others

Top Hispanic Degree Producers : HSIs : Hispanic-Serving Institutions and Others: Each year when we do our Top 100 undergraduate degree producers, we get calls from Hispanic-serving institutions asking why they didn’t make the list. Out of the Top 100 schools that confer the most bachelor’s degrees to Hispanics in 2005-06, just 33 percent were HSIs. According to Excelencia in Education’s analysis of the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), in 2005-2006, some 252 institutions met the basic criterion for an HSI. Out of these 252 institutions, roughly 50 percent (125 institutions) were four-year institutions (54 were public and 71 were private institutions). The other 50 percent (127 institutions) were two-year. Hispanic-serving institutions are defined not by their institutional mission, but by their total Hispanic enrollment. “HSIs are public and private not-for-profit degree-granting institutions of higher education with 25 percent or more undergraduate full-time equivalent Hispanic enrollment,” according to Excelencia in Education.