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Colleges With the Greatest Racial and Ethnic Diversity Among Faculty Members, Fall 2017

Almanac 2019 August 18, 2019

The diversity index indicates on a scale of 1 to 100 the probability that any two full-time instructional faculty members at an institution are from different racial or ethnic groups. Three historically black colleges and universities were among the 10 four-year public institutions with the greatest faculty diversity, and five HBCUs were among the 10 four-year private nonprofit institutions with the greatest such diversity in the fall of 2017. Click on the plus sign at the beginning of each row to see additional data.

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The diversity index indicates on a scale of 1 to 100 the probability that any two full-time instructional faculty members at an institution are from different racial or ethnic groups. Three historically black colleges and universities were among the 10 four-year public institutions with the greatest faculty diversity, and five HBCUs were among the 10 four-year private nonprofit institutions with the greatest such diversity in the fall of 2017. Click on the plus sign at the beginning of each row to see additional data.

4-year public institutions

4-year private nonprofit institutions


4-year for-profit institutions


2-year public institutions

2-year for-profit institutions

Note: The index measures the probability that two people chosen at random from the full-time instructional faculty are of different racial or ethnic groups. Percentages for nonresident aliens — the U.S. government’s term for non-U.S. citizens, or foreign nationals, without permanent-resident status in the United States — and the various racial and ethnic categories are based on the total number of full-time instructional faculty members in those respective categories out of all faculty members whose race was known. Only full-time instructional staff with faculty status were considered in the analysis. Hispanic and nonresident-alien faculty members are considered as distinct racial or ethnic categories for the purpose of the index, and faculty members who identify as two or more races are considered as automatically diverse. Figures in the diversity-index column are rounded, but institutions were ranked before rounding. Institutions with fewer than 50 total faculty members were excluded. Two-year private nonprofit institutions were excluded. Questions or comments on the Almanac should be sent to the Almanac editor.


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



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A version of this article appeared in the August 23, 2019, issue.
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