Campus Ethnic Diversity National Liberal Arts Colleges
Campus Ethnic Diversity Methodology
College-bound students who believe that studying with people of different racial and ethnic backgrounds is important will want to consider student-body diversity when choosing a school. To identify colleges where students are most likely to encounter undergraduates from racial or ethnic groups different from their own, U.S. News factors in the total proportion of minority students, leaving out international students, and the overall mix of groups. The data are drawn from each institution's 2011-2012 school year student body.
The categories we use in our calculations are Black or African-American, Hispanic, American Indian, Asian, Pacific Islander, White (non-Hispanic), and multiracial. Students who did not identify themselves as members of any of those demographic groups were classified as whites who are non-Hispanic for the purpose of these calculations. Our formula produces a diversity index that ranges from 0.0 to 1.0. The closer a school's number is to 1.0, the more diverse is the student population.
| Save | School | Diversity index |
|---|---|---|
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Colby College
Waterville, ME |
0.30 | |
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Franklin and Marshall College
Lancaster, PA |
0.30 | |
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Moravian College
Bethlehem, PA |
0.30 | |
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Spelman College
Atlanta, GA |
0.30 | |
|
Sweet Briar College
Sweet Briar, VA |
0.30 | |
|
Ursinus College
Collegeville, PA |
0.30 | |
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Wabash College
Crawfordsville, IN |
0.30 | |
|
Wheaton College
Wheaton, IL |
0.30 | |
|
Bethany College
Bethany, WV |
0.29 | |
|
Dickinson College
Carlisle, PA |
0.29 | |
|
Gordon College
Wenham, MA |
0.29 | |
|
Johnson C. Smith University
Charlotte, NC |
0.29 | |
|
Kenyon College
Gambier, OH |
0.29 | |
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Lafayette College
Easton, PA |
0.29 | |
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Virginia Military Institute
Lexington, VA |
0.29 | |
|
Birmingham-Southern College
Birmingham, AL |
0.28 | |
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Fisk University
Nashville, TN |
0.28 | |
|
Goshen College
Goshen, IN |
0.28 | |
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Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts
North Adams, MA |
0.28 | |
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Thomas Aquinas College
Santa Paula, CA |
0.28 | |
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Allegheny College
Meadville, PA |
0.27 | |
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Bridgewater College
Bridgewater, VA |
0.27 | |
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Eastern Mennonite University
Harrisonburg, VA |
0.27 | |
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Eckerd College
St. Petersburg, FL |
0.27 | |
|
Hendrix College
Conway, AR |
0.27 |
