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.
UC San Diego
UC Berkeley
CalTech
Carnegie Mellon
MIT
Harvey Mudd
NYU
UC Los Angeles
Stanford
Rice
U Southern California
UC Santa Barbara
Swarthmore
Brandeis
U Chicago
U Pennsylvania
Emory
U Texas–Austin
Pomona
Harvard
Boston U
Cornell
Yale
Claremont McKenna
Princeton
Amherst
Case Western
Northwestern
U Illinois
Franklin W. Olin
Johns Hopkins
Duke
Brown
Vanderbilt
Northeastern
U Miami
U Maryland College Park
Santa Clara U
Rensselear
Occidental
Tufts
Wellesley
Barnard
U Washington
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.
Barnard
Bryn Mawr
Wellesley
Mt. Holyoke
Smith
Scripps
Macalester
Pitzer
Bates
Haverford
Oberlin
Bowdoin
Colorado College
Hamilton
Amherst
Occidental
Swarthmore
Carleton
Davidson
Franklin W. Olin
Grinnell
65%
65
62
62
60
57
57
56
55
55
54
53
53
52
51
51
50
50
50
50
50
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.
U Miami
Pomona
Scripps
U Southern California
Georgia Tech
UC Davis
Mt. Holyoke
Bryn Mawr
Occidental
Rensselear
U Illinois
Santa Clara U
Carleton
Colorado College
Wesleyan
U Texas
Emory
Williams
SUNY Binghamton
Purdue
U Maryland College Park
Haverford
Trinity U
Harvey Mudd
UCLA
Ohio State
Grinnell
Wellesley
Macalester
Pitzer
George Washington U
Davidson
U Pennsylvania
Vassar
Yale
Barnard
UC Berkeley
UC San Diego
Claremont McKenna
Stanford
U Michigan
Amherst
Bates
Florida State
38%
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36
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35
35
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33
32
32
31
31
30
30
30
30
29
29
29
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28
28
28
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27
27
27
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27
26
26
26
26
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26
25
25
25
25
25
25