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UNDERGRADUATE STUDENTS

Composition by Race/Ethnicity

  • About 21% of undergraduates identified as Underrepresented Racial minorities (URM) in fall 2019.
  • Latino/a/x/Hispanic are the largest racial and ethnic minority group among undergraduates at Santa Clara, comprising 17.9% of the undergraduate student body.
  • More students (7.5% in 2019) identify as belonging to "Two or more races" and consider themselves as Multi-Racial. This has been steady since 2013.
  • As demonstrated in the trend figures, Santa Clara is more diverse today than it was in 2007. In 2019, 52.9% of undergraduates identified as a race/ethnicity other than white compared to 36.3% in 2007.

Composition by Gender

50% of undergraduates were female-identified in fall 2019.

GRADUATE STUDENTS

Composition by Race/Ethnicity

  • About 17% of graduate students identified as domestic URM in fall 2019. This proportion has been increasing since 2003 (7.9%).
  • Latino/a/x/Hispanics are the largest URM group among graduates at Santa Clara, and comprise 15.3% of all graduate students.
  • About a third  (30%) of graduate students identify as international or unknown.

Composition by Gender

  • 53.7% of graduate students were female-identified in fall 2019.

FACULTY

  • Full-time faculty are included in data. Faculty members with administrative positions such as Dean, Vice Provost, Provost, and President are excluded in faculty metrics, and included in staff metrics.
  • Faculty data do not disaggregate international and domestic.
  • Faculty categories by tenure status (i.e. tenured/tenure-track and non-tenure track) are available on the dashboard. Through faculty composition also varies by college/school and department, those data are not provided to IPEDS (data source for the dashboards); as such, those category breakdowns are not available on the dashboard.
  • It is important to acknowledge that the compositional diversity differences within the faculty become more apparent when you view the data by ranks (Assistant Professor, Associate Professor and Full Professor).

Composition by Race/Ethnicity

  • About 11% of faculty self-identify as domestic URM in fall 2019. This proportion has increased only slightly since 2003 (8.6%).
  • The fastest growing population of faculty is the Asian population, 16% in fall 2019.
  • 68% of faculty identified as white in fall 2019, compared to 81% in fall 2003.
  • Latino/a/x/Hispanics are the largest URM group among faculty at Santa Clara and comprise 7.9% of all full-time faculty.

Composition by Gender

  • About 46.1% of faculty were female-identified in fall 2019. This is an increase since 2003 when 37% of faculty were female-identified.

STAFF

  • Staff include non-academic (non-faculty) employees. Only full-time employees are included.
  • Faculty with administrative appointments such as Dean, Vice Provost, Provost, and President are included in staff data.
  • Only aggregated staff categories are included in the dashboard at this time. Composition varies by position (i.e., service workers, clerical, other professional, senior managers, etc.). 

Composition by Race/Ethnicity

  • About 24.6% of staff identify as URM.
  • "Two or more races" is included as a reporting category in fall 2013, which may account for the apparent stagnant diversity of staff since 2001. In fall 2019, 43.5% of staff identified as something other than white. That proportion was 35.8% in fall 2003 and 40.4% in fall 2006.
  • Latino/a/x/Hispanic staff proportions have remained consistent since Fall 2006 as well as the Black or African American staff proportions during this period. It is important to note that the introduction of the "Two or more races" category in 2007 may account for some of the variation.

Composition by Gender

  • Females comprise a majority of staff at Santa Clara in fall 2019 (60%), which has changed only slightly since fall 2003 (57%). However, differences do exist in staff position categories (e.g., senior managers, service workers, administrative staff, etc.), which will be presented at a later date. For example, in fall 2009, clerical, secretarial, skilled crafts, and service/maintenance staff were 67% female compared to 55% female within executive, administrative, managerial and other professional categories.