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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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
| 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