Campus Ethnic Diversity Regional Colleges (South)
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.
These rankings are split into 4 regions: North, South, Midwest, and West.
| Save | School | Diversity index |
|---|---|---|
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Bluefield College
Bluefield, VA |
0.43 | |
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Central Baptist College
Conway, AR |
0.43 | |
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Catawba College
Salisbury, NC |
0.42 | |
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Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College
Tifton, GA |
0.40 | |
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Mars Hill College
Mars Hill, NC |
0.40 | |
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Louisiana College
Pineville, LA |
0.39 | |
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Huntingdon College
Montgomery, AL |
0.38 | |
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Aquinas College
Nashville, TN |
0.36 | |
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St. Andrews Presbyterian College
Laurinburg, NC |
0.35 | |
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University of Charleston
Charleston, WV |
0.35 | |
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Meredith College
Raleigh, NC |
0.34 | |
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Florida Southern College
Lakeland, FL |
0.33 | |
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University of the Ozarks
Clarksville, AR |
0.33 | |
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Glenville State College
Glenville, WV |
0.32 | |
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Anderson University
Anderson, SC |
0.29 | |
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Mid-Continent University
Mayfield, KY |
0.29 | |
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Toccoa Falls College
Toccoa Falls, GA |
0.28 | |
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West Virginia Wesleyan College
Buckhannon, WV |
0.27 | |
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Brescia University
Owensboro, KY |
0.26 | |
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Carson-Newman College
Jefferson City, TN |
0.25 | |
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Flagler College
St. Augustine, FL |
0.25 | |
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St. Catharine College
St. Catharine, KY |
0.25 | |
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Blue Mountain College
Blue Mountain, MS |
0.24 | |
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Milligan College
Milligan College, TN |
0.24 | |
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Shaw University
Raleigh, NC |
0.24 |
