UMD Named Top Producer of Minority Graduates

The University of Maryland has been named a Top 100 Minority Degree Producer by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education. Based on totals from the previous year, UMD ranked No. 34 overall for conferring the most undergraduate degrees to minority students and No. 66 overall for graduate and professional degrees.

UMD ranked No. 9 for conferring bachelor degrees in agriculture & agriculture operations, No. 12 for bachelor degrees in social science, No. 13 for bachelor degrees in mathematics and statistics, No. 18 for bachelor degrees in engineering, and No. 19 for bachelor degrees in computer and information science.

Furthermore, among specific minority groups, UMD ranked No. 2 for graduating African American students with Bachelor degrees in social science, No. 4 for graduating African American students with Bachelor degrees in agriculture and foreign languages, and No. 4 for graduating Asian American students with Masters degrees in Interdisciplinary studies. UMD also holds the No. 1 ranking for total minority students with doctoral degrees in mathematics and statistics.

Areas UMD ranked in the top 5 include:

• Total Minority students with Doctoral degrees in Mathematics and Statistics (1)
• African American students with Bachelor degrees in Social Sciences (2)
• Asian American students with Doctoral degrees in Mathematics and Statistics (2)
• Total Minority students with Masters degrees in Interdisciplinary studies (3)
• African American students with Bachelor degrees in Foreign Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (4)
• African American students with Bachelor degrees in Agriculture and Agriculture Operations (4)
• African American students with Masters degrees in Engineering (4)
• Asian American students with Masters degrees in Interdisciplinary studies (4)

For more information and complete Diverse rankings, visit http://diverseeducation.com/top100/