INSTITUTIONAL PARITY SCORES
Minoritized students in data fields are significantly less likely to see themselves in the classroom than their white and Asian peers.
We created a new metric called the institutional parity score, which compares representation by race/ethnicity and gender in data fields.
THE BREAKDOWN
This interactive map shows parity scores at hundreds of schools across the United States. Click on a state to see all the schools and their scores. You can explore by institution type and race and gender.
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HBCUs include all historically black colleges and universities that were established prior to 1964.
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HSI stands for Hispanic Serving Institutions, a federal designation for institutions of higher education that enroll at least 25% Hispanic undergraduate full-time students.
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PWI Predominantly white institution is used to describe institutions of higher education in which 50% or greater of the student enrollment is white.
Sources
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U.S. Department of Education National Centers for Science and Engineering Statistics 2018 Survey of Graduate Students and Postdoctorates in Science and Engineering
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Data science (DS) graduate students are operationalized as those enrolled in a full time Master's or Doctoral degree program in Computer and Information Systems (i.e., GSS codes: 410, 411 and 412) or Mathematics and Statistics (GSS codes: 402 and 403).
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2018 Taulbee Survey results on CS and IS faculty across its 164 responding institutions by race, ethnicity and gender.
