Campus Ethnic Diversity Regional Universities (West)
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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California Lutheran University
Thousand Oaks, CA |
0.55 | |
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Pacific University
Forest Grove, OR |
0.55 | |
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Angelo State University
San Angelo, TX |
0.54 | |
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Northeastern State University
Tahlequah, OK |
0.54 | |
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Stephen F. Austin State University
Nacogdoches, TX |
0.54 | |
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University of Alaska–Anchorage
Anchorage, AK |
0.54 | |
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University of the Incarnate Word
San Antonio, TX |
0.54 | |
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Concordia University Texas
Austin, TX |
0.53 | |
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Humboldt State University
Arcata, CA |
0.53 | |
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New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology
Socorro, NM |
0.53 |
