The University of Colorado at Boulder is ranked among the top 100 colleges in the nation for minorities receiving degrees by two magazines, Hispanic Outlook in Higher Education and Black Issues in Higher Education.
"The administration and faculty at CU-Boulder value a diverse educational environment and we are making slow but steady gains," said Christine Yoshinaga-Itano, vice provost and associate vice chancellor for diversity.
"The high quality of graduate programs on the Boulder campus has helped in recruiting an increasingly diverse student population, but more importantly the programs are having significant results in the area of retention and graduation."
In Hispanic Outlook, CU-Boulder ranked 71st in awarding bachelor's degrees to Hispanic students, the highest ranking for institutions in the state of Colorado. Metropolitan State College was ranked 80th and Colorado State University ranked 94th.
Black Issues in Higher Education focused on the top 100 institutions that recently conferred graduate and professional degrees to African American, American Indian, Asian American and Hispanic students.
In the master's degree category, CU-Boulder's engineering program ranked 29th for African Americans, 24th for Asian Americans, 36th for Hispanics and 27th for total minority students. The mathematics and statistics program ranked 36th in awarding master's degrees for total minority students.
For doctoral degrees, social sciences ranked eighth for Hispanic students and 21st for total minorities. Physical sciences ranked 14th for Asian Americans and ninth for total minority students. The engineering program ranked 25th for Asian American students and 33rd for total minorities. In awarding doctorates for all disciplines combined, CU-Boulder ranked seventh for American Indian students, 67th for Asian American students and 56th for Hispanic students.
The rankings in Hispanic Outlook are based on 2001-02 data from the National Center for Education Statistics. The rankings in Black Issues are based on NCES data from 2002-03.