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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Barnard College
New York, NY |
0.51 | |
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Bowdoin College
Brunswick, ME |
0.51 | |
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Guilford College
Greensboro, NC |
0.51 | |
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Kentucky State University
Frankfort, KY |
0.51 | |
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United States Naval Academy
Annapolis, MD |
0.51 | |
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Virginia Wesleyan College
Norfolk, VA |
0.51 | |
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Wesleyan University
Middletown, CT |
0.51 | |
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Harvey Mudd College
Claremont, CA |
0.50 | |
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Pitzer College
Claremont, CA |
0.50 | |
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Scripps College
Claremont, CA |
0.50 | |
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Vassar College
Poughkeepsie, NY |
0.50 | |
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Drew University
Madison, NJ |
0.49 | |
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Claremont McKenna College
Claremont, CA |
0.48 | |
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Purchase College–SUNY
Purchase, NY |
0.48 | |
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Lake Forest College
Lake Forest, IL |
0.47 | |
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Grinnell College
Grinnell, IA |
0.45 | |
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Berea College
Berea, KY |
0.44 | |
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Huston-Tillotson University
Austin, TX |
0.44 | |
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Southwestern University
Georgetown, TX |
0.44 | |
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United States Military Academy
West Point, NY |
0.44 | |
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University of Wisconsin–Parkside
Kenosha, WI |
0.44 | |
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Westmont College
Santa Barbara, CA |
0.44 | |
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Knox College
Galesburg, IL |
0.42 | |
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Linfield College
McMinnville, OR |
0.42 | |
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Trinity College
Hartford, CT |
0.42 |
