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What Are Minority Serving Institutions?

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What’s a Minority Serving Institution (MSI)? MSIs are academic institutions that take deliberate steps to recruit, enroll, and retain students from underserved populations. MSIs receive federal funding to support diversity and improve graduation rates of historically excluded students. Learn more about MSIs below.

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Colorado College: One of the Best Liberal Arts Education Options

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Student Cohort Size: Colorado College has a current enrollment of approximately 2,425 students. of international students and 33 graduate students. The largest undergraduate major at this university is Economics, which comprises 82 students. The 3 graduate programs at Colorado College are all on-campus.

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Alabama Nonprofit Joins Push to Diversify the Tech Field

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Some HBCU programs that aim to retain, train, recruit, and graduate students in the STEM field include: Spelman College's free six-week Women in STEM Summer Bridge Accelerator Howard University's Howard West program and the Karsh STEM Scholars Program, which aim to increase the number of minorities earning a Ph.D. or MD/Ph.D.

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Consortium Colleges: The Best of Both Worlds

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Faculty care deeply about teaching and, in these more intimate learning communities, students receive more individualized attention and mentorship from professors. Additionally, without graduate students on campus, undergraduate students also have greater access to research and internship opportunities.

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Best HBCUs for Entrepreneurship

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Bowie State University Bowie State University serves 6,275 undergraduate and graduate students across 66 academic programs. It maintains campuses in Tulsa and Oklahoma City, serving more than 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students. Xavier University offers both a minor and a certificate in entrepreneurship.

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What You Need to Know About Williams College

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Student Cohort Size Williams College has a total student population of 2,307 with 2,251 undergraduate students and 56 graduate students. 79% of students are out of state and 9% of students are international. The students represent 49 states and 93 countries. Williams has no summer session.

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Campus Visit Notes: Whittier College

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College: Whittier College Location: Whittier, CA (about 20 minutes southeast of downtown Los Angeles) Type of Institution: private liberal arts college Size: 1,200 undergraduates, and a handful of graduate students Admissions Advice: Whittier is a fairly accessible college for students from a range of different backgrounds and academic profiles.