Graduate Hispanic-Serving Institutions (gHSIs): 2023-24

Abstract

The mission of "Excelencia" in Education is to accelerate Latino student success in higher education. A critical group of institutions enrolling and graduating Latino students are Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). In 2023-24, two-thirds of all Latino undergraduate students in higher education (67%) were enrolled in 602 institutions in the U.S. known as Hispanic-Serving Institutions (HSIs). HSIs represent 20% of all institutions of higher education. The majority of HSIs (60%) are 4-year institutions and a smaller subset offer graduate programs. In 2023-24, 43% of HSIs offered graduate programs (257 HSIs). Of the 602 HSIs, 257 offered graduate degrees (169 offered doctoral degrees as the highest degree, 69 offered master's degrees, and 19 offered a post-master's certificate). The list of institutions identified as HSIs with graduate programs in this analysis is not intended to designate eligibility for any specific program; rather, the list is meant to assist in considering and analyzing the institutions that meet the legislative definition of an HSI and offer graduate programs. The list of emerging HSIs presented in this report was created using data from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS).