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Most Diverse Colleges

Colleges ranked by balance across eight stored race, ethnicity and international-student share categories

Top 50 of 885 eligible institutions shown Source family: U.S. Department of Education stored fields Methodology reviewed July 21, 2026

What this ranking measures

The score measures balance across eight stored race, ethnicity and international-student share categories. It is a normalized Simpson index from 0 to 100; a higher score means the reported shares are distributed more evenly across those categories.

Eligibility requires at least four positive known categories, at least 80% known coverage, no more than 20% unknown share, a reported total between 90% and 110%, and positive enrollment. Unknown share affects eligibility but is not counted as diversity. This metric does not measure inclusion, campus climate, socioeconomic diversity or an individual student's experience.

#1
Pacific Rim Christian University
Urban Honolulu, HI · Private
94.9
Balance
#2
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore, MD · Private
92.0
Balance
#3
Stanford University
Stanford, CA · Private
91.9
Balance
#4
Otis College of Art and Design
Los Angeles, CA · Private
91.7
Balance
#5
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA · Private
91.5
Balance
#6
Hawaii Pacific University
Urban Honolulu, HI · Private
91.1
Balance
#7
Columbia University in the City of New York
New York, NY · Private
91.1
Balance
#8
Academy of Art University
San Francisco, CA · Private
90.9
Balance
#9
New York University
New York, NY · Private
90.8
Balance
#10
University of Southern California
Los Angeles, CA · Private
90.7
Balance
#11
University of Chicago
Chicago, IL · Private
90.5
Balance
#12
Yale University
New Haven, CT · Private
89.8
Balance
#13
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA · Private
89.8
Balance
#14
Rice University
Houston, TX · Private
89.6
Balance
#15
University of Massachusetts-Boston
Boston, MA · Public
89.5
Balance
#16
Emory University
Atlanta, GA · Private
89.4
Balance
#17
Seattle University
Seattle, WA · Private
89.3
Balance
#18
University of Hawaii at Hilo
Hilo CDP, HI · Public
89.2
Balance
#19
Arizona College of Nursing-Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV · Private
89.1
Balance
#20
Christian Brothers University
Memphis, TN · Private
89.1
Balance
#21
Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD · Private
89.0
Balance
#22
University of Silicon Valley
San Jose, CA · Private
89.0
Balance
#23
Amberton University
Garland, TX · Private
88.8
Balance
#24
Brown University
Providence, RI · Private
88.8
Balance
#25
Barnard College
New York, NY · Private
88.8
Balance
#26
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA · Private
88.8
Balance
#27
Northwestern University
Evanston, IL · Private
88.7
Balance
#28
MCPHS University
Boston, MA · Private
88.7
Balance
#29
University of Pennsylvania
Philadelphia, PA · Private
88.4
Balance
#30
University of Maryland-Baltimore County
Baltimore, MD · Public
88.3
Balance
#31
California Institute of Technology
Pasadena, CA · Private
88.2
Balance
#32
Boston University
Boston, MA · Private
88.1
Balance
#33
California College of the Arts
San Francisco, CA · Private
88.0
Balance
#34
University of Nevada-Las Vegas
Las Vegas, NV · Public
87.9
Balance
#35
The Juilliard School
New York, NY · Private
87.8
Balance
#36
University of Washington-Tacoma Campus
Tacoma, WA · Public
87.8
Balance
#37
University of California-Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA · Public
87.7
Balance
#38
University of Maryland Baltimore
Baltimore, MD · Public
87.6
Balance
#39
University of California-Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, CA · Public
87.6
Balance
#40
The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
New York, NY · Private
87.5
Balance
#41
Hope International University
Fullerton, CA · Private
87.5
Balance
#42
Seattle Pacific University
Seattle, WA · Private
87.4
Balance
#43
Oral Roberts University
Tulsa, OK · Private
87.4
Balance
#44
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Urban Honolulu, HI · Public
87.3
Balance
#45
Duke University
Durham, NC · Private
87.3
Balance
#46
Northeastern University Professional Programs
Boston, MA · Private
87.3
Balance
#47
Illinois Institute of Technology
Chicago, IL · Private
87.2
Balance
#48
Samuel Merritt University
Oakland, CA · Private
87.2
Balance
#49
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA · Private
87.2
Balance
#50
Case Western Reserve University
Cleveland, OH · Private
87.1
Balance

Methodology and source limits

Normalized Simpson balance index across eight known student-share categories; unknown share affects eligibility but is not scored as diversity. Source periods can vary by field and institution. Missing values are not proof of zero, and these lists are not universal judgments of educational quality.

Tie-breakers are known demographic coverage, then total enrollment, institution name and slug. The formula is 100 × (1 − Σp²) ÷ (1 − 1/8), where each p is a known category's normalized share.

Methodology reviewed July 21, 2026.