The Office for Minority Student Education is responsible for fostering and furthering the community that supports underrepresented students, specifically Native American, African American, and Latino students in graduating from Caltech.
This includes developing and implementing retention programs, responding to day-to-day issues and concerns that arise with students, and sponsoring educational support and leadership development programs. MSE works closely with other offices to educate the campus related to diversity issues and develops support structures for current students.

Much of the support services and programming for minority students at Caltech is coordinated by the Office for Minority Student Education while recruitment is coordinated by Undergraduate Admissions and Graduate Studies.