Fresno State has been designated an Opportunity College and University by the Carnegie Classifications for however higher acquisition tin foster opportunities for pupil success.
The designation is portion of a recently developed Student Access and Earnings Classification published this period by the Carnegie Foundation and the American Council connected Education. The classification examines the grade to which an instauration is enrolling students who bespeak the communities it serves and whether its students spell connected to gain competitory wages compared to peers successful their area. This year, 479 institutions (or astir 16% of U.S. colleges and universities that are successful the Student Access and Earnings Classification) person been identified arsenic Opportunity Colleges and Universities.
“Fresno State, without a doubt, reflects the assemblage it serves,” said Fresno State President Saúl Jiménez-Sandoval. “We person agelong enrolled the talented students of the Central Valley to person a world-class, broad acquisition wherever the skills and experiences they person assistance to alteration their lives; Fresno State is dynamically linked to the communities and system of our Valley region. This caller designation confirms the pivotal relation Fresno State plays successful our portion and beyond.”
The methodology for the caller Student Access and Earnings Classification uses a assortment of groupings from the 2025 Institutional Classification to measure pupil entree and net betwixt akin colleges and universities. The Institutional Classification was redesigned to see a wider look astatine types of degrees awarded by institutions, the grade subjects and the size of the institution. It besides builds connected the probe designations published successful February.
Fresno State’s 2025 Institutional Classification is “Mixed Undergraduate/Graduate-Master’s Large/Medium.” The university’s R2 probe designation “High Spending and Doctorate Production,” archetypal earned successful 2022, was renewed by the Carnegie Classifications successful February.
An instauration is designated R2 presumption if it awarded astatine slightest 20 probe doctorates and had astatine slightest $5 cardinal successful full probe expenditures during the classification update year. Only 8 of the 23 universities successful the California State University strategy stock this designation.
Fresno State awarded 25 probe doctoral degrees and spent $11.4 cardinal connected probe expenditures successful the 2022-23 world year. The assemblage offers a Doctoral Program successful Educational Leadership (Ed.D.), Doctor of Physical Therapy (DPT) and Doctor of Nursing Practice (DNP).
