This June, the University of California, Riverside said that it had exceeded the number of Hispanic students it enrolls, according to the Urban Institute, which marked 50 years surveying more than 400 universities.
The Urban Institute report considered just how much racial/ethnic groups have access to education by measuring college enrollment vs. its “college market,” or pool of potential students. The report is reportedly the first to consider college markets based on the distances students travel to attend institutions.
UC Riverside enrolls 2% more Hispanic students than are in its college market, according to Urban Institute’s 61-page report, “Racial and Ethnic Representation in Postsecondary Education.”
Nationally, more universities serve about 7% fewer Hispanic students than living in their markets; California’s more selective public universities enroll 18% fewer.
UCR’s enrollment of Hispanic students is 10 percentage points higher than the No. 2 institution among California’s 10 public universities in the more selective category, San Diego State University, which enrolls about 8% fewer Hispanic students in its potential pool; No. 3 is UC Santa Cruz, which enrolls 11% fewer.
The report’s authors attribute the Latino- and Black-student discrepancies nationally to admissions and tuition policies, state appropriations for higher education, beliefs about the value of college, and local labor markets.
From fall 2017 — the last year measured in the report — UCR’s percentage of Latino students has risen from 37.7% to 38.3%.
The report is the latest installment in a procession of national reports ranking UC Riverside as among the highest-ranked Hispanic-serving universities.
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