Hi,
I don’t meant to make bring race into this but do asians dominate the engineering department at CMU? I went to CMU this past weekend to walk around campus and when I walked into the engineering/cs building it was all asians.
I have a lot of asian friends but not seeing another white face was surprising.
If you look at CMU’s demographic data, they say there are 2,050 students classified at Asian, of 6,843 undergraduate students - or 30%.
But looking deeper, they have 1,507 as “International”, 736 as “multiracial” and 394 as “race not reported”. So of the 4,206 with a reported race, it’s 49%. And I’d say it’s a decent wager that the “International” students would raise that percentage. And these are total university numbers - I’m guessing that Engineering skews that way more than Fine Arts.
This is obviously not a statistically significant sample, so it needs to be treated as anecdotal evidence. My son, and seven of his colleagues in CIT at CMU all share a duplex off campus. They all met in their first year dorm (E-Tower), half from a women’s floor and half from a men’s floor. The gender/ethnic/home/major breakdown is as follows:
Female/ Chinese/California/Mechanical Engineering
Female/ Chinese/Texas/Electrical Engineering
Female/ Jordanian/Jordan/Materials Science
Female/ Caucasian/New Jersey/Mechanical Engineering
Male / Indian / Georgia / Mechanical Engineering
Male /Indian / India/ Materials Science
Male/ Caucasian / The Netherlands / Mechanical Engineering
Male/ Caucasian / New York/ Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science
As an undergraduate at CMU, you will encounter a variety of students from different ethnicities and countries of origin. I consider this to be a good thing.
@RichInPitt thx for the reply
@MillerDXXXI i agree I’m looking forward to meeting people from all over