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Looks like only racial/ethnic diversity is considered here (rather than also including other kinds of diversity like SES).
Also, not a surprise that state universities in more diverse states (or areas for non-flagships) have more diversity than those in less diverse states (or areas for non-flagships).
Interesting that the two most “diverse” large schools, and 6 of the top 10, have African-American population percentages well under 1/4 that of the country. I didn’t see where they defined the calculation of this Index.
Reminds me a bit of my former employer championing my “diverse” project team picture - white male (me) in the middle surrounded by 31 Indian males. Diversity can be defined in many ways.
University of California Campuses
Enrollment-Racial Groups, 2017
Group……………….…Berkeley……%.………Davis……….%………Los Angeles…%
Afro-Amer.……………1,016……3.3%…1,055……3.5%…1,623……5.2%
Am. Indian……………….164……0.5%…196………0.7%…164……0.5%
Hispanic……………….4,573……15.0%…6,318……21.0%…6,603……21.3%
Asian……………………11,911……39.0%…9,649……32.1%…9,809……31.6%
White……………………7,867……25.7%…7,422……24.7%…8,079……26.1%
Dom. Unstated……1,291…….4.2%…714……2.4%…1,079………3.5%
International………3,725……12.3%…4,712…15.7%…3,645.……11.8%
Total………………….…30,574…100.0%…30,066…100.01…31,002.…100.0%
Group…………………San Diego……%………Santa Barbara……%
Afro-Amer.………………714….…2.5%…1,017……4.6%
Am. Indian……………….125….…0.4%…210………….0.9%
Hispanic…………………5,111……17.9%…5,686………25.6%
Asian……………………10,890……38.1%…5,430………24.5%
White………………….…5,496……19.2%…7,064………31.8%
Dom. Unstated………705…….2.5%…590….……2.7%
International………5,546……19.4%…2,189……….…9.9%
Total………………….…28,587….100.0%…22,186………100.0%
Comments:
The International students are not broken down ethnically as are the in-state and domestic non-resident students. The vast majority of the sixth group, the “Domestic Unstated” are “White” or “Caucasian” because they’re trying to escape any partiality by UC admissions by not classifying their race.
Here’s the breakdown of residential status of the undergraduates for each, with P.O.C. representing the People’s Republic of China:
Group……………….…Berkeley……%.………Davis……….%………Los Angeles……%
CA Residents……….23,070……75.5%……24,955……83.0%…23,926.……77.2%
Domestic…………….…4,022……13.2%…1,019……3.4%…3,475………11.2%
International…………3,482…11.4%…4,092….…13.6%…3,601………11.6%
Total………………………30,574……100.1%…30,066……100.0%…31,002……100.0%
Internationals:
…P.O.C………………………1,245……4.1%…3,017……….10.0%…1,703……….5.5%
…Others……….….………2,237*……7.3%…1,075….……3.6%…1,898……….6.1%
Total…………………….……3,482……11.4%…4,092….….13.6%…3,601………11.6%
- Berkeley had 425 Internationals whose national origins were not given.
Group……………….…San Diego…%.….Santa Barbara…….%
CA Residents……….22,097……77.3%….….……19,192……86.5%
Domestic…………………1,346………4.7%…860……3.9%
International……………5,144……18.0%…2,134………9.6%
Total………………………28,587…100.0%…22,186….100.0%
Internationals:
…P.O.C………………….…3,687………12.9%…1,860………8.4%
…Others…………………1,457………5.1%…274………1.2%
Total…………………….…5,144………18.0%…2,134………9.6%
Comments:
The numbers of students at U.C. from the P.O.C. has grown from 1,588 in 2010 to 18,293 in 2018, of the respective total undergraduates 179,245 and 222,493 at the University in the referenced years, amounting to 0.8% and 8.2%.
UCLA seems to be going in an opposite trend by taking more domestic non-residents than Internationals. Berkeley’s trend is evening of the two and has an especially tough admissions rate on Internationals. Actually they both do with rates of acceptances < 10%.
And lest anyone were to want to question the numbers of those of South and East Asian descent at the UCs, this person should realize that if he or she wants to work at Facebook, Google, etc., (s)he should get accustomed to being around a very diverse workforce.
Correction: that of course should be P.R.C. for People’s Republic of China not P.O.C. or People of Color – maybe I meant People of China. 
California public schools are not allowed to use race as a factor in admissions.
@twoinanddone . . . I’m speaking of the perceptions some students may have in the admissive process, and this is probably how the University labeled those who most likely didn’t choose a box or x’ed the box “None of Your Business.”
It doesn’t appear that they are of mixed race or the University would have stated them as such; or the university puts those of mixed background into various categories; or the students more likely chose a singular race/ethnicity.
And race is still a factor a very large one, but the way the UCs are able to meet their diversity indexes is by admitting by economic diversity and first-generation status. Those of poorer economic background implies first generation; first generation implies a greater underrepresented-minority probability. And the admissions people know who’s who and what race they are, and they would know this even if they went (edit: to) a race-blind admissions.
It is probable that Asian applicants are more likely to “decline to state” on college applications (generally, regardless of the college and whether or not it considers race/ethnicity) than white applicants.
It is odd that the stats add up to exactly 100% but do not include a row for “more than one”. Typically, there is a “more than one” category listed. Less commonly, those who indicate more than one are listed in all categories, resulting in the categories adding up to more than 100%.
Probably defining it in terms of dissimilarity, so that colleges which attract significant numbers of more different groups (regardless of who they are, and based on their in-state and often local populations) tend to score higher. For example, the colleges in California score higher because of substantial Latino and Asian (as well as white) populations in the state attending the colleges, but the black population in the state is low. (Your project team would not be “diverse” by this type of measure, comparable to colleges like UT-RGV that is listed at 566 out of 577.)
The colleges that score high and have larger black populations are in states that have both large black populations and large populations of other minorities (e.g. Texas and Florida). However, many black people live in states where there are few other minorities, so those states’ public colleges are less likely to score highly (since there are largely only two groups instead of three or more). Also, some of those states have legacy segregation where at least some of the historically white and historically black public colleges do not appear to attract students of the other race very well, despite being generations removed from legally mandated segregation.
@ucbalumnus . . . I always appreciate your input.
I’m sorry I excluded Irvine, Merced, Riverside, and Santa Cruz, but if I get a chance, I’ll add them later. Including them would have pushed the max-character threshold-boundary.
Per your quote…
There is a subset of Whites, those of Jewish background, whom I believe might have gone underground on a lot of college campuses including the UCs. UCLA, especially, has always been Jewish friendly, but there have been a couple of incidents within a few years; one in which a person of such background was asked, “Are you Jewish?” as if this were relevant as to whether she were qualified to take a seat on student council. I believe she might have even been asked this by another Jewish person.
The population of Jewish students at a broad spectrum of universities per study conducted by Brandeis shows a really low percentage at UCLA, perhaps too low.
Just a wild theory, which may or may not have any basis. But I can’t think of any other ethnic group that might be feeling such pressure. But would this cause them to decline stating? In which case it wouldn’t be a concern of admissions policy.
I think this is a little easier to answer. I believe a student is typically going to present as whatever (s)he feels gives him or her the best chance of admission, even if race isn’t ostensibly used.
That theory about Jewish students declining to state their race/ethnicity (whatever it may be, since Jewish students can be of any of the groups that can be checked and there is no “Jewish” category on college applications’ race/ethnicity questions) is too wild of a theory to be more believable than Asian students declining to state because they believe (not necessarily correctly) that they are subject to limiting quotas because they are overrepresented.
Regarding “more than one”, it is very unlikely that exactly zero students indicated more than one category. So having all of the categories add up to exactly 100% but with no row for “more than one” looks odd.
Re, paragraph 1…
Colleges want to know with specificity what group a student resides. With that the University can send materials to a him or her about clubs, etc., that might interest him or her once accepted. White has just as many subsets as the Asian grouping does, but the numbers are collated to present in general groupings as here with UC. But it is a fact that many Jewish students have gone underground. It’s just the climate of the times. I don’t doubt that Asians may feel the heat of limiting quotas, i.e., Harvard, but these quotas extremely high at UC, seemingly non-existent. Edit: See UCSD, 38% Asian Domestics and 12% from the PRC ≥ 50%.
Paragraph 2…
Perhaps the Domestic Unknowns is a catch-all. Because I would think it would be odd to have a percentage > 100%; that a student could check more than one box among different groupings. The universities are trying to gain accurate percentages of each group for whatever purposes they see fit.
https://www.universityofcalifornia.edu/sites/default/files/Race-Eth%20Data%20Collection.pdf indicates that there is no “Jewish” subgrouping under any race/ethnicity for UC purposes.
@ucbalumnus . . . good link, thank you. I found it myself when I went looking around on the web before I came here by typing in and inquiring with Google search, “uc application race question.” The groupings for White are definitely based on national origin and not so much an ethnic basis, but there are certainly distinguishing ethnic bases to many if not the majority of countries. The biggest exception is the United States, of course.
And since a good half or more of Jewish people live in the Diaspora outside of the land of Israel, many can associate their nationality to many different countries. But the Jewish in the U.S. can perhaps in the majority point their origins as Ashkenazi to Eastern Europe, and students on their UC apps would most likely best state themselves as being European. But would they identify with this?
Would it be easier for an American to identify with European as a Jewish person, rather than an Asian who is American of, say, Chinese background as Chinese? You have to remember that a Jewish student whose grandparents had to flee, say, Poland, was a land where only 1 of ~ 11 of their people didn’t perish in WWII.
So who is more apt to decline to answer the race question? I think there would a greater hesitancy with the Jewish student especially if (s)he is remotely observant – obviously now because of my seeing the rounds of questions – for a different set of reasons. That still doesn’t belie, too, that some Jewish students are keeping an extremely low profile – they’ve gone underground.
At Jewish friendly UCLA, there was the student who was asked about her Jewish background in a round of questions as to whether she was fit to sit on student council; there was the student from UCLA who became student regent and drew protests, but there were none when a Palestinian woman from Berkeley was regent a year earlier. But it turned out that the Palestinian woman and the Jewish man became good friends, so there is good reason for attending colleges with lots of diversity.
So one set for internal purposes, one for IPEDS; maybe I’ll look at IPEDS for more detail. Here’s a [url= <a href=“https://www.hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/university-of-california–los-angeles%5Dlink%5B/url”>https://www.hillel.org/college-guide/list/record/university-of-california–los-angeles]link[/url] to Hillel’s page for UCLA. 2,500 might be a bit low of a number.
Israeli - Palestinian politics on college campuses have commonly been racist shouting matches between the most extreme and noisy participants; that the nastiness and bigotry sometimes bleeds into other situations can be a growing annoyance to everyone else.
Interesting list. The three University of Texas schools listed under “small schools” are medical/science graduate schools. No undergrad programs at any of those three campuses as far as I know except perhaps UTHSC Houston may have a nursing program.
The list is about as random as it comes. IMO, those schools that match either the local population percentages by race or the national population percentage by race should be considered the most diverse by race. Underrepresenting certain populations isn’t diversity.
University of California Campuses
Enrollment-Racial Groups, 2017
Cohort……………….…Irvine…………%.………Merced…….%……Riverside……%
Afro-Amer.………………868……3.0%…484……6.6%…1,203……6.0%
Am. Indian…….…………. 71………0.2%…31…….0.4%…66……0.3%
Hispanic…………………7,535……25.7%…3,805……51.6%…7,876.…39.2%
Asian……………………11,242…38.4%…1,649……22.4%…7,442.…37.1%
White……………………4,090……14.0%…748……10.1%…2,387……11.9%
Dom. Unstated………595…….2.0%…112………1.5%…364….…1.8%
International………4,906……16.7%…546…….7.4%…735……3.7%
Total………………………29,307…100.0%…7,375…100.0%…20,073…100.0%
Cohort…………………Santa Cruz….%
Afro-Amer.………………730….…4.2%
Am. Indian……………….147………0.8%
Hispanic…………………4,853……27.6%
Asian………………………4,940……28.1%
White………………………5,525……31.4%
Dom. Unstated….……292……….1.7%
International…………1,090………6.2%
Total………………………17,577….100.0%
Here’s the breakdown of residential status of the undergraduates for each, with P.R.C. representing the People’s Republic of China. There are actually two types of International students, those who are domestic residents presumably of California (instead of anywhere within the U.S.), and those who are residents of foreign countries. Therefore, I added another subset, the International CA residents, abbreviated as Int’l, CA Res. I’m guessing that these could possibly be Dreamers, those who are alien but attend the UC as California residents.
Cohort……………………….Irvine………%.………Merced……….%………Riverside………%
CA Residents…………….23,753…80.8%….….7,347……92.4%…19,181………95.6%
Domestic Non-Res…….715.……2.4%…13……0.2%…157…………0.8%
Int’l, Non-Res………………4,839…16.5%…15………0.2%…535…………2.7%
Int’l, CA Res……………………….67…….0.2%…531……7.2%…200…….….1.0%
Total……………………………29,307….99.9%…7,375…100.0%…20,073……100.1%
International Non-Residents
…P.R.C……………………….…3,921……13.4%…9…….0.1%…360……….1.8%
…Others………………………918…………3.1%…6……0.1%…175……….0.9%
Total……………………………4,839………16.5%…15……0.2%…535……….2.7%
Cohort…………………Santa Cruz……%
CA Residents…………15,883………90.4%
Domestic Non-Res……604.………3.4%
Int’l Non-Res……………1,045…5.9%
Int’l CA Res……………………45……….0.3%
Total………………………17,577……100.0%
Internationals:
…P.R.C…………………………818……4.6%
…Others……………………227……1.3%
Total…………………………1,045….5.9%
Here’s an adjustment of Internationals for the following UCs with the additional cohort added to residential status.
Cohort……………………Berkeley……%.……………Davis……….%…………Los Angeles……%
CA Residents……………22,800……74.6%….….24,335……80.9%…23,882………77.0%
Domestic Non-Res……4,022…13.2%…1,019…3.4%…3,475………11.2%
Int’l, Non-Res……………3,482………11.4%…4,092……13.6%…3,601………11.6%
Int’l, CA Res…………………270………0.9%…620…2.1%…44…………0.1%
Total…………………………30,574….100.1%…30,066……100.0%…31,002………99.9%
Cohort……………….…San Diego…%.….Santa Barbara…….%
CA Residents……………21,695….…75.9%………19,137………86.3%
Domestic Non-Res……1,346…4.7%…860…3.9%
Int’l, Non-Res……………5,144……18.0%…2,134……….9.6%
Int’l, CA Res…………………402………1.4%…55…0.2%
Total…………………………28,587…100.0%…22,186……100.0%
@firmament2x, I’m Jewish and have never had any kind of dilemma filling out forms that ask about things like race and/or ethnicity. I can’t imagine other Jews having those kinds of problems, either. On questions about race and ethnicity, I put white. The only time I get asked questions about my Jewish origins (three of four grandparents are from Eastern Europe, the fourth is from Cleveland) is when I’m filling out something like a medical form, where they’re trying to figure out where your family originated because that tells them something about your genetics.