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4-Year Colleges With the Biggest Increases in Percentages of Underrepresented Minorities

By  Chronicle Staff
November 11, 2018

Doctoral, master’s, and liberal-arts colleges increased their representation of students who were American Indian, black, or Hispanic faster than the population of those three groups together grew in the United States from 2010 to 2016. Nevertheless, all categories of institutions below except public master’s institutions continued to collectively underrepresent those three groups. The growth in their representation over six years can be attributed predominantly to an increase in Hispanic students. American Indians lost ground in enrollment, and the number of African-Americans grew at a slower rate than did enrollment over all. Only 14 of the 75 institutions on this list ̶ among them New England College and Texas State University ̶̶ had higher increases in the number of black students than in the number of Hispanics.

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Doctoral, master’s, and liberal-arts colleges increased their representation of students who were American Indian, black, or Hispanic faster than the population of those three groups together grew in the United States from 2010 to 2016. Nevertheless, all categories of institutions below except public master’s institutions continued to collectively underrepresent those three groups. The growth in their representation over six years can be attributed predominantly to an increase in Hispanic students. American Indians lost ground in enrollment, and the number of African-Americans grew at a slower rate than did enrollment over all. Only 14 of the 75 institutions on this list ̶ among them New England College and Texas State University ̶̶ had higher increases in the number of black students than in the number of Hispanics.

Public doctoral institutions

RankInstitution Fall 2016 enrollment Underrepresented minorities, fall 2016Underrepresented minorities, fall 2010Percentage-point difference, 2010 to 2016
1. City U. of New York Graduate Center and other CUNY entities* 7,378 63.1% 28.4% 34.6
2. U. of California at Merced 7,336 58.7% 43.7% 15.0
3. U. of California at Irvine 32,754 32.3% 18.6% 13.8
4. Texas State U. 38,808 45.1% 32.2% 12.9
5. California State U. at Fresno 24,405 57.5% 45.2% 12.3
6. U. at Albany 17,373 31.9% 20.5% 11.4
7. San Francisco State U. 29,045 38.8% 27.8% 10.9
8. U. of Central Florida 64,088 36.7% 26.8% 9.9
9. U. of West Georgia 13,308 42.8% 33.2% 9.6
10. Texas Tech U. 36,551 31.5% 22.0% 9.5
11. U. of Massachusetts at Dartmouth 8,647 24.2% 14.7% 9.5
12. Montclair State U. 20,987 40.1% 30.8% 9.3
13. California State U. at Fullerton 40,235 47.1% 37.8% 9.3
14. Sam Houston State U. 20,477 41.0% 31.7% 9.3
15. Georgia State U. 32,237 50.2% 41.1% 9.2
16. U. of North Carolina at Greensboro 19,647 35.3% 26.3% 9.0
17. U. of Nevada at Las Vegas 29,702 35.1% 26.2% 8.9
18. U. of North Texas 38,145 36.2% 27.5% 8.7
19. U. of Illinois at Chicago 29,120 34.8% 26.3% 8.5
20. U. of Nevada at Reno 21,353 23.6% 15.1% 8.5
Over all for 189 institutions 4,716,493 25.4% 21.6% 3.7

Private nonprofit doctoral institutions

RankInstitution Fall 2016 enrollment Underrepresented minorities, fall 2016Underrepresented minorities, fall 2010Percentage-point difference, 2010 to 2016
1. National-Louis U. 4,515 49.9% 31.7% 18.2
2. Trevecca Nazarene U. 3,221 32.0% 15.7% 16.4
3. U. of La Verne 8,369 65.3% 53.8% 11.5
4. Azusa Pacific U. 10,020 38.8% 27.6% 11.1
5. Illinois Institute of Technology 7,730 26.5% 17.2% 9.4
6. Cardinal Stritch U. 2,464 33.9% 24.5% 9.3
7. Suffolk U. 7,461 22.4% 14.0% 8.3
8. U. of San Francisco 11,003 30.5% 22.9% 7.7
9. U. of Hartford 6,714 28.4% 21.5% 6.9
10. Fielding Graduate U. 1,046 31.4% 24.5% 6.9
11. New School 10,301 27.5% 20.7% 6.9
12. U. of San Diego 8,508 27.0% 20.4% 6.6
13. U. of the Pacific 6,128 22.4% 15.8% 6.6
14. New York U. 50,550 22.7% 16.3% 6.4
15. Union Institute & U. 1,133 49.9% 43.8% 6.1
16. Union U. 3,466 26.3% 20.2% 6.0
17. Loyola U. Chicago 16,422 22.3% 16.3% 6.0
18. Shenandoah U. 3,918 19.5% 13.6% 5.9
19. Teachers College, Columbia U. 4,985 27.0% 21.3% 5.7
20. Regent U. 8,389 40.2% 34.5% 5.7
Over all for 117 institutions 1,377,859 22.8% 20.2% 2.6

Public master’s institutions

RankInstitution Fall 2016 enrollment Underrepresented minorities, fall 2016Underrepresented minorities, fall 2010Percentage-point difference, 2010 to 2016
1. Buffalo State College 9,475 42.4% 23.1% 19.3
2. State U. of New York College at Potsdam 3,696 27.7% 10.1% 17.6
3. California State U. at Chico 17,557 37.5% 20.4% 17.1
4. Humboldt State U. 8,503 41.3% 25.6% 15.7
5. Sonoma State U. 9,323 35.3% 19.7% 15.6
6. California State U.-Channel Islands 6,611 55.6% 40.0% 15.6
7. Western Connecticut State U. 5,721 28.9% 13.5% 15.4
8. California State U. at San Marcos 13,144 50.1% 34.8% 15.3
9. California State U.-Monterey Bay 7,274 56.1% 41.1% 15.0
10. California State U. at San Bernardino 20,767 74.8% 60.2% 14.7
Over all for 261 institutions 2,398,673 30.1% 25.9% 4.2

Private nonprofit master’s institutions

RankInstitution Fall 2016 enrollment Underrepresented minorities, fall 2016Underrepresented minorities, fall 2010Percentage-point difference, 2010 to 2016
1. Touro U. Worldwide 1,069 38.3% 3.8% 34.5
2. Harrisburg U. of Science and Technology 2,992 50.0% 21.5% 28.5
3. New England College 2,781 32.1% 7.2% 24.9
4. Albertus Magnus College 1,555 56.5% 34.0% 22.5
5. Southern New Hampshire U. 73,177 28.0% 5.7% 22.3
6. Judson U. (Ill.) 1,298 31.3% 11.4% 20.0
7. College of Saint Elizabeth 1,200 51.5% 31.5% 20.0
8. Dominican U. 3,522 47.5% 29.6% 17.9
9. Felician U. 2,014 56.3% 40.7% 15.6
10. Medaille College 2,053 27.9% 12.8% 15.1
Over all for 402 institutions 1,559,371 26.0% 23.0% 3.0

Public bachelor’s: arts and sciences institutions

RankInstitution Fall 2016 enrollment Underrepresented minorities, fall 2016Underrepresented minorities, fall 2010Percentage-point difference, 2010 to 2016
1. Fort Lewis College 3,600 39.1% 29.2% 9.9
2. Pennsylvania State U.-Berks 2,888 23.1% 14.5% 8.6
3. Charter Oak State College 1,583 34.5% 27.3% 7.2
4. St. Mary’s College of Maryland 1,629 18.3% 11.5% 6.8
5. State U. of New York College at Purchase 4,156 32.4% 25.7% 6.7
Over all for 23 institutions 49,511 21.6% 18.1% 3.5

Private nonprofit bachelor’s: arts and sciences institutions

RankInstitution Fall 2016 enrollment Underrepresented minorities, fall 2016Underrepresented minorities, fall 2010Percentage-point difference, 2010 to 2016
1. Bethany College (W.Va.) 680 31.3% 14.8% 16.6
2. Albright College 2,318 36.6% 20.2% 16.4
3. Schreiner U. 1,308 44.0% 28.3% 15.7
4. Lycoming College 1,263 21.2% 6.7% 14.5
5. Knox College 1,359 26.9% 13.3% 13.7
6. Harvey Mudd College 842 22.7% 9.0% 13.7
7. Whittier College 2,072 51.3% 38.0% 13.3
8. William Peace U. 1,034 45.3% 32.2% 13.1
9. Wells College 510 29.1% 16.2% 12.9
10. Warren Wilson College 716 16.5% 3.8% 12.8
Over all for 211 institutions 332,381 21.6% 18.3% 3.3

* The figure for the City University of New York Graduate Center includes enrollment at four administratively linked programs: the CUNY Baccalaureate for Unique and Interdisciplinary Studies, the CUNY School of Professional Studies (including the Joseph S. Murphy Institute for Worker Education and Labor Studies), the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism, and Macaulay Honors College.

Note: “Underrepresented minorities” are defined as American Indians and Alaska Natives, blacks, and Hispanics, all of whom have been traditionally underrepresented in higher education. The percentage of underrepresented minorities for each year was calculated by dividing the total number of students from those three groups into the total number of students, minus those whose race or ethnicity was unknown or who were nonresident aliens. Institutions are ranked from highest to lowest percentage-point increases in representation of the three underrepresented groups. Data are for four-year public and private-nonprofit degree-granting institutions in the United States that are eligible to participate in federal Title IV financial-aid programs. Only four-year institutions that are classified as doctoral, master’s, or “baccalaureate colleges: arts and sciences focus” by the 2015 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education and that had reported enrollment figures for both the fall of 2010 and 2016 were included. Colleges with fewer than 500 students were excluded from the rankings, but their data were considered in overall figures for each category. Enrollment figures include all full- and part-time graduate and undergraduate students. Percentages and percentage-point differences are rounded, but institutions were ranked before rounding. Questions or comments on the Chronicle List should be sent to Ruth Hammond.

Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data

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A version of this article appeared in the November 16, 2018, issue.
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