John Jay Is #11 Nationwide for Best Hispanic-Serving Colleges
John Jay College was ranked #11 nationally for best Hispanic-serving colleges by Washington Monthly and Excelencia in Education. The rankings combine the social mobility focus of the Monthly’s college rankings with the deep knowledge that Excelencia has built over decades of studying Hispanic performance in higher education.
Forty-four percent of John Jay's student population is Hispanic and John Jay is committed to providing access to higher education for members of historically underserved communities. Initiatives like the ¡Adelante! Leadership Program, Immigrant Student Success Center, and MBK Connect support their success, helping them thrive in college and achieve meaningful, impactful careers.
The Washington Monthly list is created by isolating access, affordability and outcomes metrics from their main rankings. The access metric ranks colleges by how well they provide access to non-wealthy students by tracking how many students are on federal Pell Grants in comparison to how many Pell recipients those schools might be expected to enroll based on test scores, admission rates and statewide family income. The affordability metric ranks colleges by their affordability and includes the net price of the institution, or the amount that students with family incomes below $75,000 pay, minus aid. It also tracks how much debt graduates leave with. The outcomes metric ranks colleges by the academic and financial outcomes they provide to students by comparing the percentage of students graduating within eight years to statistical predictions and by comparing graduation rates between wealthy and non-wealthy students and tracking the incomes that students make in their early careers compared that to their peers’ early-career incomes. Learn more about the ranking here.
John Jay was also recently ranked #5 nationwide for best value by the Wall Street Journal, #3 nationwide for sending Black applicants to law school and #13 for Hispanic applicants by the Law School Admissions Council #3 for social mobility and #5 in best public colleges in the North by US News, #9 nationwide for best return on investment by Forbes and a best college in America by Money.
