At seven of the 40 colleges that were the most diverse in their sectors in 2015, more than 30 percent of students reported being of two or more races. Six of those colleges are in Hawaii. The seventh, National American University at Sioux Falls, which also had the highest percentage of American Indians among institutions on the list, is in South Dakota. Diversity-index figures are shown in the last column of the table (which can be viewed — along with additional racial and ethnic data — by clicking the plus sign at the beginning of each row). They indicate, on a scale of 1 to 100, the probability that any two students at an institution are from different racial or ethnic groups.
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4-year public colleges
| 1. | U. of Hawaii at Hilo | 3,829 | 3.6% | 0.6% | 20.4% | 1.1% | 12.7% | 9.9% | 21.4% | 30.4% | 0.5% | 88.5 |
| 2. | U. of Hawaii Maui College | 3,593 | 1.4% | 0.2% | 27.1% | 0.7% | 12.7% | 8.5% | 20.3% | 29.1% | 0.2% | 86.2 |
| 3. | U. of Hawaii-West Oahu | 2,692 | 0.5% | 0.2% | 37.1% | 1.5% | 11.7% | 6.7% | 10.7% | 31.7% | 0.3% | 83.3 |
| 4. | U. of Hawaii-Manoa | 18,865 | 6.5% | 0.2% | 35.6% | 1.3% | 9.1% | 3.7% | 20.4% | 23.2% | 0.4% | 81.8 |
| 5. | Highline College | 6,560 | 9.1% | 0.6% | 17.3% | 11.7% | 13.5% | 1.3% | 35.6% | 10.9% | 10.7% | 80.3 |
| 6. | California State U.-East Bay | 15,528 | 9.7% | 0.3% | 23.5% | 11.1% | 30.2% | 1.0% | 18.7% | 5.7% | 6.1% | 79.7 |
| 7. | New Jersey Institute of Technology | 11,325 | 20.9% | 0.0% | 19.1% | 8.3% | 19.2% | 0.0% | 29.7% | 2.7% | 10.4% | 78.8 |
| 8. | Rutgers U. at Newark | 11,720 | 9.3% | 0.1% | 19.3% | 17.0% | 21.2% | 0.5% | 30.4% | 2.2% | 5.3% | 78.8 |
| 9. | U. of Houston | 42,704 | 9.8% | 0.2% | 20.7% | 10.2% | 27.9% | 0.2% | 28.0% | 3.1% | 1.5% | 78.1 |
| 10. | City U. of New York Bernard M. Baruch College | 18,433 | 12.8% | 0.2% | 29.4% | 9.4% | 20.5% | 0.2% | 26.1% | 1.5% | 0.0% | 77.8 |
4-year private nonprofit colleges
| 1. | Hawaii Pacific U. | 4,781 | 13.8% | 0.4% | 16.9% | 5.5% | 14.7% | 2.3% | 29.8% | 16.6% | 6.8% | 83.8 |
| 2. | Charles R. Drew U. of Medicine and Science | 533 | 0.8% | 0.0% | 20.6% | 35.6% | 12.9% | 0.2% | 7.5% | 22.4% | 5.3% | 80.8 |
| 3. | Menlo College | 787 | 15.5% | 0.8% | 10.7% | 6.8% | 24.2% | 2.1% | 31.6% | 8.2% | 8.8% | 80.1 |
| 4. | Chaminade U. of Honolulu | 2,466 | 1.6% | 0.8% | 32.6% | 7.0% | 7.3% | 21.6% | 19.6% | 9.5% | 11.0% | 79.8 |
| 5. | U. of San Francisco | 10,797 | 17.4% | 0.2% | 19.6% | 5.0% | 19.0% | 0.8% | 31.7% | 6.3% | 4.6% | 79.2 |
| 6. | Pacific Union College | 1,555 | 3.4% | 0.3% | 20.5% | 9.1% | 29.9% | 1.7% | 27.6% | 7.6% | 6.4% | 78.3 |
| 7. | Andrews U. | 3,366 | 20.7% | 0.2% | 10.1% | 20.6% | 13.9% | 0.3% | 32.4% | 1.7% | 2.1% | 78.0 |
| 8. | Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art | 972 | 20.2% | 0.0% | 20.5% | 3.7% | 9.9% | 0.0% | 35.8% | 10.0% | 13.3% | 77.8 |
| 9. | Long Island U. at Brooklyn | 8,170 | 8.8% | 0.3% | 15.2% | 30.8% | 15.7% | 0.2% | 26.8% | 2.2% | 14.7% | 77.8 |
| 10. | Otis College of Art and Design | 1,160 | 24.9% | 0.9% | 28.8% | 4.6% | 7.9% | 0.3% | 26.7% | 6.0% | 5.7% | 77.6 |
4-year for-profit colleges
| 1. | National American U. at Sioux Falls | 503 | 0.0% | 6.7% | 1.6% | 6.7% | 1.4% | 0.6% | 36.9% | 46.0% | 2.0% | 85.4 |
| 2. | Los Angeles Film School | 2,334 | 7.4% | 0.6% | 3.6% | 28.5% | 26.9% | 0.1% | 20.4% | 12.7% | 21.5% | 79.8 |
| 3. | Art Institute of California at San Francisco | 791 | 5.8% | 1.2% | 11.8% | 11.8% | 37.5% | 2.0% | 20.6% | 9.3% | 16.7% | 78.5 |
| 4. | Gurnick Academy of Medical Arts | 957 | 0.0% | 0.9% | 31.6% | 9.5% | 23.8% | 3.2% | 23.3% | 7.7% | 1.4% | 77.9 |
| 5. | Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising at Los Angeles | 2,814 | 18.1% | 0.6% | 12.0% | 5.8% | 23.8% | 1.1% | 35.3% | 3.4% | 5.8% | 76.8 |
| 6. | Plaza College | 732 | 0.0% | 0.0% | 11.6% | 31.3% | 32.7% | 0.0% | 12.4% | 12.0% | 0.0% | 76.7 |
| 7. | Pacific College of Oriental Medicine (N.Y.) | 555 | 3.5% | 0.2% | 28.2% | 11.7% | 10.1% | 0.6% | 37.2% | 8.6% | 7.4% | 75.7 |
| 8. | DeVry College of New York | 1,875 | 11.7% | 0.8% | 8.9% | 36.1% | 27.2% | 1.0% | 13.3% | 1.0% | 1.6% | 75.6 |
| 9. | DeVry U. of California | 6,166 | 3.8% | 0.4% | 14.6% | 13.2% | 34.9% | 2.6% | 28.7% | 1.8% | 6.2% | 75.5 |
| 10. | Musicians Institute | 1,118 | 38.6% | 1.1% | 4.5% | 9.0% | 13.7% | 0.3% | 26.6% | 6.4% | 6.1% | 75.2 |
2-year public colleges
| 1. | U. of Hawaii Hawaii Community College | 3,087 | 1.9% | 0.1% | 18.4% | 0.7% | 14.4% | 9.8% | 15.0% | 39.8% | 0.4% | 91.3 |
| 2. | U. of Hawaii Windward Community College | 2,610 | 0.5% | 0.1% | 18.8% | 1.1% | 16.3% | 7.0% | 15.7% | 40.6% | 0.4% | 90.9 |
| 3. | U. of Hawaii Kauai Community College | 1,401 | 1.1% | 0.1% | 29.0% | 0.5% | 11.6% | 6.2% | 18.3% | 33.1% | 0.3% | 86.5 |
| 4. | U. of Hawaii Leeward Community College | 7,535 | 1.4% | 0.1% | 36.8% | 2.3% | 13.2% | 5.4% | 8.8% | 31.9% | 0.3% | 83.5 |
| 5. | Berkeley City College | 7,164 | 6.3% | 0.3% | 16.6% | 16.9% | 26.7% | 0.4% | 26.0% | 6.9% | 4.8% | 80.1 |
| 6. | U. of Hawaii Honolulu Community College | 4,328 | 0.9% | 0.2% | 42.6% | 2.0% | 9.9% | 6.8% | 8.6% | 29.2% | 1.0% | 79.7 |
| 7. | Kapiolani Community College | 7,816 | 9.4% | 0.2% | 41.8% | 1.3% | 9.1% | 3.1% | 10.3% | 24.8% | 0.4% | 79.6 |
| 8. | Laney College | 11,667 | 4.3% | 0.3% | 27.0% | 25.2% | 22.1% | 0.6% | 15.2% | 5.4% | 5.6% | 79.0 |
| 9. | Montgomery College (Md.) | 25,320 | 10.1% | 0.3% | 10.8% | 28.4% | 22.7% | 0.3% | 24.8% | 2.7% | 0.2% | 78.4 |
| 10. | Cosumnes River College | 14,398 | 0.7% | 0.4% | 28.2% | 12.7% | 25.3% | 2.0% | 24.4% | 6.4% | 1.4% | 78.0 |
Note: Percentages for nonresident aliens — the U.S. government’s term for non-U.S. citizens, or foreign nationals, without permanent-resident status to live in the United States — and the various racial and ethnic categories are based on the total number of students in that particular category out of all students whose race is known. The U.S. Department of Education counts Hispanic and nonresident-alien students as part of distinct racial or ethnic categories, so they are considered as such when calculating the diversity index. The index measures the probability that two people chosen at random from the student body are of different racial or ethnic groups. Students who identify as two or more races are considered as automatically diverse in calculating the index. Institutions with fewer than 500 total students were excluded.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data