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

The Chronicle List November 11, 2018 PREMIUM

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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

Rank	Institution	Fall 2016 enrollment	Underrepresented minorities, fall 2016	Underrepresented minorities, fall 2010	Percentage-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

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Private nonprofit doctoral institutions

Rank	Institution	Fall 2016 enrollment	Underrepresented minorities, fall 2016	Underrepresented minorities, fall 2010	Percentage-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

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Public master’s institutions

Rank	Institution	Fall 2016 enrollment	Underrepresented minorities, fall 2016	Underrepresented minorities, fall 2010	Percentage-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

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Private nonprofit master’s institutions

Rank	Institution	Fall 2016 enrollment	Underrepresented minorities, fall 2016	Underrepresented minorities, fall 2010	Percentage-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

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Public bachelor’s: arts and sciences institutions

Rank	Institution	Fall 2016 enrollment	Underrepresented minorities, fall 2016	Underrepresented minorities, fall 2010	Percentage-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

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Private nonprofit bachelor’s: arts and sciences institutions

Rank	Institution	Fall 2016 enrollment	Underrepresented minorities, fall 2016	Underrepresented minorities, fall 2010	Percentage-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

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* 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