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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Pine Manor College
Chestnut Hill, MA |
0.75 | |
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Pacific Union College
Angwin, CA |
0.72 | |
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Soka University of America
Aliso Viejo, CA |
0.72 | |
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SUNY College–Old Westbury
Old Westbury, NY |
0.71 | |
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Wellesley College
Wellesley, MA |
0.65 | |
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Amherst College
Amherst, MA |
0.63 | |
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Swarthmore College
Swarthmore, PA |
0.63 | |
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Agnes Scott College
Decatur, GA |
0.62 | |
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Whittier College
Whittier, CA |
0.62 | |
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Bloomfield College
Bloomfield, NJ |
0.61 | |
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Wesleyan College
Macon, GA |
0.60 | |
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Harrisburg University of Science and Technology
Harrisburg, PA |
0.59 | |
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Life University
Marietta, GA |
0.59 | |
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Occidental College
Los Angeles, CA |
0.59 | |
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Pomona College
Claremont, CA |
0.58 | |
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Williams College
Williamstown, MA |
0.57 | |
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Austin College
Sherman, TX |
0.56 | |
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Bryn Mawr College
Bryn Mawr, PA |
0.56 | |
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Eastern Nazarene College
Quincy, MA |
0.55 | |
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Oglethorpe University
Atlanta, GA |
0.55 | |
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East-West University
Chicago, IL |
0.53 | |
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Fort Lewis College
Durango, CO |
0.53 | |
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Haverford College
Haverford, PA |
0.52 | |
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Mount Holyoke College
South Hadley, MA |
0.52 | |
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Smith College
Northampton, MA |
0.52 |
