Fact Sheet
*13% of high school students are Latino. 10
*Latinos are three times more likely to take a language AP exam and 5 times more likely to get college credit for passing the exam than white students. 10
*The high school completion rate for Latinos across the nation is 63% compared to 81% for African Americans and 90% for whites. 10
*The top three bachelor degrees for Latinos are in business, social science and education. 10
*Nationally, graduate school enrollment is 4% for Latinos compared to 6% for blacks and 73% for whites. 10
*In 1998-1999, 3.8% of the students earning a bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan were Latino and 4.1% of the total degrees were earned by Latinos. 11
*In 2003-2004, only 3.5% of the students earning a bachelor's degree at the University of Michigan were Latino and 3.9% of the total degrees were earned by Latinos.11
*Of the 60 fraternities and sororities at the University of Michigan only 6 are Latino-based. 12
*The 2001 U.S. News World Report of "America's Best Graduate Schools" ranked the University of Michigan's Latin American history program 12th. 13