Columbia Has Highest Black Freshman Percentage
The Brown Daily Herald points out that Brown has one of the lowest black freshman enrollments in the Ivy League, with its 6.7 percent black freshman population just beating Cornell's 4.5 percent black enrollment. According to a study by the Journal of Blacks in Higher Education, Columbia boasts the highest black freshman enrollment percentage (12.1 percent) for the top-ranked national universities, while Amherst has highest ratio for liberal arts colleges at 11.2 percent.
Top 5 black freshman enrollment at highest-ranked national universities:
- Columbia (12.1 percent)
- University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill (10.8 percent)
- Stanford University (10.5 percent)
- Duke University (10.1 percent)
- Yale University (10 percent)
Top 5 black freshman enrollment at highest-ranked liberal arts colleges:
- Amherst College (11.2 percent)
- Williams College (10.4 percent)
- Swarthmore College (10.2 percent)
- Wellesley College (10.1 percent)
- Haverford College (9.5 percent)
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I feel good about it. It's high time we started creating opportunities for all & sundry irrespective of race & color. If we must achieve this millenium global goals, then, we must give all the sense of belonging.
Black Freshmen Percentages
12.1% of the student population
Black Freshmen Percentages
Where is the core information..Columbia has the highest black freshmen enrollment percentage(12.1) of what. How many black freshmen is that? 12.1 % of what The writer Alison Go needs to go back and take Journalism 101 and english 101. This is a great example of no information,plus the editor needsto join her in that class. J. Peters
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