{"id":40985,"date":"2015-12-17T16:02:52","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T23:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=40985"},"modified":"2015-12-21T13:58:47","modified_gmt":"2015-12-21T20:58:47","slug":"nau-named-among-top-schools-for-graduating-minority-students","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-named-among-top-schools-for-graduating-minority-students\/","title":{"rendered":"NAU ranks among Top 10 for graduating minority students"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Northern Arizona University ranks among the best in the nation for conferring bachelor\u2019s degrees to minorities, particularly for\u00a0Native American and Latino students, according to an\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/diverseeducation.com\/top100\/\"><strong>annual report<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0produced by\u00a0<em>Diverse Issues in Higher Education.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>NAU ranks ninth\u00a0in the nation for awarding bachelor\u2019s degrees to Native Americans in all disciplines, and 47th\u00a0in the nation for graduating Latino students in all disciplines. NAU ranks\u00a078th\u00a0for total minority graduates in all disciplines.<\/p>\n<p>Statistics measured graduates in the 2013-14\u00a0academic\u00a0school year and compared figures to past years. The complete list of top 100 institutions is available\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/diverseeducation.com\/top100\/\">online<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Below is a list of\u00a0NAU&#8217;s rankings in\u00a0<em>Diverse Issues<\/em>\u00a0top 100 list for minority education for 2015:<\/p>\n<p><strong>Total Minority Graduates<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>78th\u00a0All Disciplines Combined<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>7th Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities<\/li>\n<li>11th Hospitality Administration\/Management<\/li>\n<li>15th Education<\/li>\n<li>41st\u00a0Natural Resources and Conservation<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Native American Graduates<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>9th All Disciplines Combined<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>2nd Engineering<\/li>\n<li>4th Health Professions and Related Programs<\/li>\n<li>5th Physical Sciences<\/li>\n<li>6th Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing<\/li>\n<li>7th Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities<\/li>\n<li>7th Psychology<\/li>\n<li>8th Education<\/li>\n<li>9th Area, Ethnic, Cultural, Gender and Group Studies<\/li>\n<li>9th Social Sciences<\/li>\n<li>11th Biological and Biomedical Sciences<\/li>\n<li>11th Business, Management, Marketing and Related Support Services<\/li>\n<li>14th Communication, Journalism and Related Programs<\/li>\n<li>15th\u00a0Parks, Recreation, Leisure, and Fitness Studies<\/li>\n<li>18th\u00a0Business Administration, Management and Operations<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Latino Graduates<\/strong><strong>\u2028<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>47th All Disciplines Combined<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>5th Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities<\/li>\n<li>6th Hospitality Administration\/Management<\/li>\n<li>8th Education<\/li>\n<li>28th Natural Resources and Conservation<\/li>\n<li>30th\u00a0Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing<\/li>\n<li>33rd Public Administration and Social Service Professions<\/li>\n<li>44th Biological and Biomedical Sciences<\/li>\n<li>46th Health Professions and Related Programs<\/li>\n<li>47th\u00a0Finance and Financial Management Services<\/li>\n<li>48th\u00a0Business, Management, Marketing and Related Support Services<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/nau-named-among-top-schools-for-graduating-minority-students\/\">Northern Arizona University ranks among the best in the nation for conferring bachelor\u2019s degrees to minorities, particularly for\u00a0Native American and Latino students, according to an\u00a0annual report\u00a0produced by\u00a0Diverse Issues in Higher Education. NAU ranks ninth\u00a0in the nation for awarding bachelor\u2019s degrees to Native Americans in all disciplines, and 47th\u00a0in the nation for graduating Latino students in&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":41005,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-40985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-campus-community"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40985","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40985\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}