Stanford University Exhibits for Asian Focus Areas

Last update: Saturday 12/8/18

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Stanford University Exhibit 1. Asian American and White Graduates by IPEDS Degree Areas
The chart shown in Exhibit 1 (below) shows the number of White students and Asian students who graduated from Stanford Class of 2016 in each of the 19 IPEDS degree areas into which Stanford's degree programs were classified. Blue bars show the number of White students; light blue bars show Asian students. The exact numbers for each category will be displayed in the table in Exhibit 3.

Key points worth noting:

• The "AFA" prefix in front of the names of the five degree areas listed at the bottom of the vertical axis designates these areas as Asian Focus Areas.
• It's important to note that Asian students outnumber White students in two AFA categories: "Computer Information Sciences" and "Biological Biomedical Sciences". These will be seen to be the two strongest focus areas for Asian students, not only at Stanford, but at most of the 21 institutions covered by this report.
• On the other hand, White students greatly outnumber Asian students in the programs that fall into the 14 degree categories that fall outside of the Asian Focus Areas.

Stanford Exhibit 2. Asian Focus Areas Identified by Overall Asian-to-White Ratio
The chart shown in Exhibit 2 displays the Asian-to-White ratios in all IPEDs categories plus a dashed red line the marks the 0.51 overall ratio of Asian to White students in the graduating class. The bars for the five degree areas wherein the Asian-to-White ratio is greater than 0.51, i.e., the AFA areas, end at positions to the right of the dotted red line; the bars for all other areas end at positions to the left of the dotted line.  The exact Asian-to-White ratios will be displayed in the table in Exhibit 3.

Stanford Exhibit 3A. Graduates -- All Races
The table in Exhibit 3 displays the number of students in each racial category for each of the 19 degree areas. The right-most column displays the ratio of the number in the Asian column to the number in the White column for each category. The last three rows of the table show the total number of students in the Asian Focus areas, the total number in all areas, and the percentage of students in the Asian Focus Areas, respectively.

• A2W, the right-most column, displays the ratio of the number of students in the Asian column to the number in the White column for each category. 
• The last four rows of the table show the total enrollments, total number of students in Asian Focus areas, percentage of total enrollments, the total number in Asian Focus Areas, and the percentage of enrollments in Asian Focus Areas, respectively.

Stanford University Graduates, Class of 2016

DegreeAreas	All	White	Asian	Hispanic	Black	A2W
CommunicationJournalism	21	12	1	3	3	0.08
PublicAdministrationSocialService	19	11	1	4	1	0.09
ForeignLanguagesLiteraturesLinguistics	38	21	2	6	2	0.10
AreaEthnicCulturalGenderGroup	49	21	3	5	9	0.14
VisualPerformingArts	33	22	4	3	2	0.18
History	41	25	5	4	2	0.20
EnglishLanguageLiterature	53	29	6	7	2	0.21
PoliticalScience	45	21	5	10	1	0.24
EngineeringTechnologies	60	35	9	3	4	0.26
PhilosophyReligiousStudies	19	11	3	3	0	0.27
SocialSciencesWithoutEconPoli	78	36	11	13	5	0.31
MultiInterdisciplinaryStudies	303	139	47	40	23	0.34
PhysicalSciences	54	25	10	10	2	0.40
Psychology	47	14	7	10	5	0.50
AFA-Engineering	358	121	71	68	25	0.59
AFA-Economics	105	31	21	17	5	0.68
AFA-MathematicsStatistics	57	18	16	4	2	0.89
AFA-ComputerInformationSciences	259	72	91	26	10	1.26
AFA-BiologicalBiomedicalSciences	107	31	39	17	3	1.26
...SumClassOf2016...	1746	695	352	253	106	0.51
...PercentClassOf2016...	100	40	20	14	6	0.51
...SumAsianFocusAreas...	886	273	238	132	45	0.87
...PercentAsianFocus...	51	39	68	52	42	1.74

Key points worth noting:

• The right most column for the "...SumAllDegreeAreas..." row shows that the ratio of the total number of Asian graduates to the total number of White graduates = 352/695 = 0.51, the defining ratio for the Asian Focus Areas shown in Exhibit 2.
• The last row of the table shows that only 39 percent of all White students obtained degrees in one of the five Asian Focus Areas; whereas 68 percent of all Asian students obtained degrees in those areas.
• The converse statements are also worth noting: 61 percent of all White students obtained degrees outside of Stanford's Asian Focus Areas; whereas only 32 percent of Asian students obtained degrees in the 14 areas outside of the Asian Focus Areas.

Stanford Exhibit 3B. Graduates -- Others

Abbreviated column headings have the usual meanings:

• The "Others" category includes AmericanIndians/AlaskaNatives and NativeHawaiians/Other Pacific Islanders
• "TwoOrMore" = multiracial students 
• "Unknown" = students who did not specify any racial group
• "NonResAlien" = non-resident aliens, i.e., foreign students.

Stanford University Graduates, Class of 2016

DegreeAreas	All	Others	TwoOrMore	Unknown	NonResAlien
CommunicationJournalism	21	NA	2	NA	0
PublicAdministrationSocialService	19	0	1	0	1
ForeignLanguagesLiteraturesLinguistics	38	1	3	1	2
AreaEthnicCulturalGenderGroup	49	1	8	0	2
VisualPerformingArts	33	0	1	0	1
History	41	2	1	0	2
EnglishLanguageLiterature	53	1	4	1	3
PoliticalScience	45	0	6	0	2
EngineeringTechnologies	60	1	4	0	4
PhilosophyReligiousStudies	19	0	0	0	2
SocialSciencesWithoutEconPoli	78	1	8	0	4
MultiInterdisciplinaryStudies	303	1	38	2	13
PhysicalSciences	54	1	5	0	1
Psychology	47	4	5	0	2
AFA-Engineering	358	3	45	3	22
AFA-Economics	105	0	5	0	26
AFA-MathematicsStatistics	57	0	5	0	12
AFA-ComputerInformationSciences	259	1	26	0	33
AFA-BiologicalBiomedicalSciences	107	0	10	0	7
...SumClassOf2016...	1746	17	177	7	139
...PercentClassOf2016...	100	1	10	0	8
...SumAsianFocusAreas...	886	4	91	3	100
...PercentAsianFocus...	51	24	51	43	72