Campus Ethnic Diversity National Universities
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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Florida Atlantic University
Boca Raton, FL |
0.64 | |
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University of California–Irvine
Irvine, CA |
0.64 | |
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University of California–Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA |
0.64 | |
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University of Maryland–Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD |
0.64 | |
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University of Texas–Austin
Austin, TX |
0.64 | |
|
University of Texas–San Antonio
San Antonio, TX |
0.64 | |
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University of Massachusetts–Boston
Boston, MA |
0.63 | |
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University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM |
0.63 | |
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George Mason University
Fairfax, VA |
0.62 | |
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Harvard University
Cambridge, MA |
0.62 |
