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Looking for a College With a Diverse Student Body? - Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings (usnews.com)

Looking for a College With a Diverse Student Body? - Morse Code: Inside the College Rankings (usnews.com)

Looking for a College With a Diverse Student Body?

August 26, 2010 09:38 AM ET | Robert Morse | Permanent Link | Print

Many prospective college students and their parents believe that an ethnically diverse student body enhances the education of every pupil on campus. A university is truly diverse if there are many different ethnic groups enrolled on campus and those groups have around the same percentage of students enrolled. In other words, if a college has only one ethnic group that makes up the vast percentage of its entire student body, it's not very diverse, even though it might have many other ethnic groups represented in very small percentages.

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We have published the lists of the most and least ethnically diverse colleges on our Web site; the lists are broken down by college category: