RANKINGS

Diversity of background of both the students and the faculty broadens and strengthens an education. I loved the diversity of the student body at the University of Maryland and would want a college that could offer this and also offer a wide diversity of professors.

For the measure of student diversity, I also consider all international students to add to the diversity–regardless of race–so they are included. Below are the schools for which the percentage of students who are non-Caucasian and/or international is 50% or higher. I give all of these schools with 50% or higher an equal score of 50–for me, anything above 50% is more icing on the cake rather than added value. Then, in order to put this on a 100-point scale, I simply doubled the percentage for them (so all on the list below score 100) and all those under 50%, as well.

To measure faculty diversity, I looked at both the percentage of faculty who are women and the percentage who are members of minority groups. As with the student population, I considered any percentage of 50% or higher to be of equal value (maximum score of 50), and then added the score for the two measures together to place it on a 100-point scale.

Here are the colleges that have reached parity for women and men, along with the percentage of women professors at each school. The first six should be no surprise.

And here’s the list of colleges that have gotten to the point where 25% or more of their faculty are members of a minority group.