Hispanic-Serving Institutions: 2026 Factbook

Overview

Excelencia in Education develops and releases a list of HSIs every year since 2004 to inform the field of where Latinos enroll, examine institutional efforts to increase student success, and compel action to transform higher education and intentionally serve Latino, and all, students. Because the definition of an HSI is grounded in enrollment, not in mission to serve, the numbers of HSIs are dependent on the population growth and enrollment concentration of Hispanic students geographically. Therefore, Excelencia created the Emerging HSIs (eHSIs) category in 2009 and maintains this list to track the pipeline to HSI status. Further, with the authorization of the Promoting Postbaccalaureate Opportunities for Hispanic Americans (PPOHA) grant program, Excelencia began to catalogue HSIs with graduate programs (gHSIs) to identify institutions potentially eligible.

This Factbook includes information on HSIs for 2024-25, the latest academic year of publicly available data, using Excelencia in Education’s analysis of U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 1994 through 2024 Fall Enrollment, Institutional Characteristics, and Completions Surveys.