2018 NSU Fact Book

102 Degrees Conferred July 2016–June 2017 Demographic Bachelor’s Master’s Specialist Doctoral Professional All Degrees By Gender Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Female 910 72.2% 2,416 71.7% 96 91.4% 750 72.2% 539 57.6% 4,794 70% Male 351 27.8% 953 28.3% 9 8.6% 289 27.8% 396 42.4% 2,051 30% By Race/Ethnicity Black 170 13.5% 710 21.1% 63 60.0% 287 27.6% 51 5.5% 1,314 19.2% Hispanic 448 35.5% 890 26.4% 11 10.5% 197 19.0% 245 26.2% 1,814 26.5% Nonresident Alien 59 4.7% 173 5.1% 1 1.0% 20 1.9% 56 6.0% 330 4.8% Other Minority 167 13.2% 252 7.5% 3 2.9% 55 5.3% 194 20.7% 689 10.1% Unknown 39 3.1% 278 8.3% 5 4.8% 82 7.9% 54 5.8% 473 6.9% White 378 30.0% 1,066 31.6% 22 21.0% 398 38.3% 335 35.8% 2,225 32.5% Grand Total* 1,261 100% 3369 100% 105 100% 1,039 100% 935 100% 6,845 100% Source: IPEDS Completions Survey *Total graduates in Table 10 (FY 2017) includes 2 associates degrees and 134 certificates awarded, but not otherwise shown in the table. Table 10 Nova Southeastern University has educated significant numbers of minority students when compared to other colleges and universities in Florida and across the country. The following facts place NSU’s contribution in some perspective: ■ Analysis of data from the National Center for Education Statistics IPEDS Data Center for four- year, private, nonprofit, degree-granting institutions nationally revealed that in academic year 2014–2015, NSU ranked 15th in total degrees awarded and fourth in the total number of degrees awarded to students from all racial/ethnic minorities combined. NSU ranked first in total degrees awarded to Hispanics and fourth in total degrees to black or African American students. With regard to master’s degrees, NSU ranked tenth overall, fourth in degrees to all minority students, second in Hispanic, and third in black or African American. For combined doctoral and first- professional degrees, NSU ranked first nationally in total degrees awarded, awards to all minorities, and awards to Hispanics. NSU ranked second nationally in awards to black or African American students. ■ NSU awarded 21 percent of all doctoral and first- professional degrees that were conferred in Florida in 2014–2015 by the Independent Colleges and Universities of Florida and the Florida public universities combined. ■ Nova Southeastern University awarded 20 percent as many master’s and 37 percent as many doctoral or first-professional degrees as the entire state university system of Florida during the 2014–2015 fiscal year. ■ Of all degrees awarded by Nova Southeastern University in 2016–2017, 70 percent were awarded to women. Approximately half of all the degrees awarded were master’s degrees. ■ Of all the degrees awarded at NSU, 37 percent were awarded through the Health Professions Division, with an additional 16 percent through the Abraham S. Fischler College of Education (Table 11).