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Study ranks campus high for diverse grads

Sacramento State is ranked 27th nationwide for the number of ethnically diverse students who earned baccalaureate degrees in 2004-05, according to the magazine Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. The article published June 1 looks at the top 100 undergraduate degree producers nationwide and Sacramento State ranks in top percentile. The magazine uses a U.S. Department of Education report to show there was a 5 percent annual increase nationwide in the number of minority students graduating with bachelor’s degrees from four-year colleges and universities.

More than half of Sacramento State’s 28,000 students are from ethnically diverse populations. In the last decade, the number of students from ethnic and racial groups has increased 65 percent nationwide, from 200,000 students in 1994-95 to 350,000 in 2004-05. Hispanic grads have seen the greatest increase, more than doubling in the last 10 years, from 54,000 to 100,000.

Sacramento State ranked 29th nationwide in the number of Hispanic students earning a four-year undergraduate degree. Asian Americans graduating with education and health degrees pushed Sacramento State to a national ranking of 19th.

Other highlights which show Sacramento State’s position in the top 100 national rankings include:

• Total minority baccalaureate
  27th in all disciplines combined
  20th in Business Management, Marketing and Related Support Services
  40th in Education
• Asian american baccalaureate
  22nd in all disciplines combined
  19th in Education
  21st in Area, Ethnic, Cultural and Gender Studies
  29th in Engineering
  19th in Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences
  38th in Psychology
• Hispanic baccalaureate
  29th in all disciplines combined
  32nd in Business Management, Marketing and Related Support Services
  29th in Education
  40th in Mathematics and Statistics