Soka University of America, the liberal-arts institution that had the highest percentage of Asian students in the fall of 2015, is a nonsectarian university in Southern California that was founded on Buddhist principles. Martin University, which had the greatest representation of African-Americans, was created in Indianapolis in 1977 with the mission of serving low-income, minority, and adult learners. Alice Lloyd College, in Kentucky, which had the highest percentage of white students, was founded in 1923 to cultivate community leaders in the Appalachian region. After non-Hispanic whites, who represented nearly three-quarters of all students at liberal-arts colleges, Hispanics had the highest overall representation, at 8.5 percent.
American Indian
| 1. | Fort Lewis College | 903 | 25.7% |
| 2. | U. of Science and Arts of Oklahoma | 134 | 16.8% |
| 3. | U. of Minnesota at Morris | 114 | 6.9% |
| 4. | Louisiana State U. at Alexandria | 170 | 5.7% |
| 5. | U. of Maine at Machias | 24 | 3.7% |
| 6. | Northland College | 12 | 2.4% |
| 7. | Westminster College | 16 | 2.1% |
| 8. | Lyon College | 13 | 2.0% |
| 9. | Sterling College | 2 | 1.9% |
| 10. | Sweet Briar College | 5 | 1.6% |
| All 215 colleges | 2,469 | 0.7% |
Asian
| 1. | Soka U. of America | 74 | 30.0% |
| 2. | Wellesley College | 533 | 26.5% |
| 3. | Harvey Mudd College | 166 | 24.6% |
| 4. | Pacific Union College | 298 | 21.2% |
| 5. | Swarthmore College | 269 | 19.8% |
| 6. | East-West U. | 98 | 18.5% |
| 7. | Scripps College | 159 | 18.4% |
| 8. | Pomona College | 228 | 16.5% |
| 9. | Amherst College | 244 | 15.8% |
| 10. | Barnard College | 356 | 15.3% |
| All 215 colleges | 15,376 | 4.7% |
Black or African-American
| 1. | Martin U. | 324 | 93.4% |
| 2. | East-West U. | 307 | 57.9% |
| 3. | Bloomfield College | 991 | 55.4% |
| 4. | Pine Manor College | 125 | 43.3% |
| 5. | Wesleyan College | 218 | 40.4% |
| 6. | William Peace U. | 370 | 39.2% |
| 7. | Agnes Scott College | 294 | 37.2% |
| 8. | Oglethorpe U. | 209 | 26.8% |
| 9. | Virginia Wesleyan College | 345 | 26.1% |
| 10. | LaGrange College | 262 | 25.7% |
| All 215 colleges | 24,707 | 7.5% |
Hispanic
| 1. | Whittier College | 895 | 42.7% |
| 2. | Schreiner U. | 419 | 34.6% |
| 3. | Antioch U. at Santa Barbara | 110 | 31.2% |
| 4. | Pacific Union College | 435 | 30.9% |
| 5. | South U. at Austin | 98 | 29.9% |
| 6. | Bloomfield College | 518 | 28.9% |
| 7. | Providence Christian College | 38 | 27.5% |
| 8. | Pine Manor College | 68 | 23.5% |
| 9. | Southwestern U. | 328 | 22.5% |
| 10. | Manhattanville College | 366 | 21.5% |
| All 215 colleges | 28,086 | 8.5% |
Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander
| 1. | Pacific Union College | 25 | 1.8% |
| 2. | Providence Christian College | 2 | 1.4% |
| 3. | College of Idaho | 10 | 1.1% |
| 4. | Antioch U. at Santa Barbara (Calif.) | 3 | 0.8% |
| 5. | Southern Virginia U. | 6 | 0.8% |
| 6. | Linfield College | 12 | 0.8% |
| 7. | King’s College (N.Y.) | 3 | 0.8% |
| 8. | Virginia Military Institute | 12 | 0.7% |
| 9. | Houghton College | 5 | 0.5% |
| 10. | Saint John’s U. (Minn.) | 9 | 0.5% |
| All 215 colleges | 360 | 0.1% |
White
| 1. | Alice Lloyd College | 586 | 96.7% |
| 2. | Bethany Lutheran College | 464 | 92.2% |
| 3. | Saint Anselm College | 1,596 | 92.1% |
| 4. | Concordia College at Moorhead | 1,827 | 91.8% |
| 5. | Marlboro College | 145 | 91.8% |
| 6. | Westminster College | 1,014 | 91.8% |
| 7. | Simpson College | 1,457 | 91.7% |
| 8. | Davis & Elkins College | 511 | 91.6% |
| 9. | Sterling College | 97 | 91.5% |
| 10. | U. of Pittsburgh at Johnstown | 2,461 | 91.5% |
| All 215 colleges | 245,967 | 74.6% |
2 or more races
| 1. | Linfield College | 213 | 12.5% |
| 2. | U. of Minnesota at Morris | 202 | 10.9% |
| 3. | Pitzer College | 99 | 9.3% |
| 4. | Occidental College | 186 | 9.2% |
| 5. | Colorado College | 193 | 9.1% |
| 6. | U. of Puget Sound | 232 | 8.4% |
| 7. | Harvey Mudd College | 66 | 8.0% |
| 8. | Scripps College | 79 | 8.0% |
| 9. | Willamette U. | 215 | 7.8% |
| 10. | Swarthmore College | 120 | 7.6% |
| All 215 colleges | 12,678 | 3.5% |
Note: Data cover baccalaureate colleges in the United States that have a focus on arts and sciences, as classified by the 2015 Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education; that are eligible to participate in Title IV federal financial-aid programs; and that are not historically black colleges and universities. Most of the 215 liberal-arts colleges are private nonprofit institutions, but 23 are public. All students, full and part time, graduate and undergraduate, who were enrolled in the fall of 2015 were counted. Students of unknown race and nonresident aliens were excluded from the totals before the percentages for each racial or ethnic group were calculated. Percentages were rounded, but institutions were ranked before rounding.
Source: Chronicle analysis of U.S. Department of Education data</p>