Law School Diversity Index
Ranked in 2013, part of Best Law Schools | Law School Diversity Index Rankings Methodology
The diversity index is based on data collected by U.S. News. The methodology used to compute the index was published in a 1992 article by Philip Meyer and Shawn McIntosh in the International Journal of Public Opinion Research. For the purposes of this index, students classified as ethnicity unknown/unreported were counted as white.
| School name | Diversity Index | Largest minority and its proportion |
|---|---|---|
|
University of Hawaii–Manoa (Richardson)
Honolulu, HI |
0.74 | Multiracial, 30% |
|
Texas Southern University (Marshall)
Houston, TX |
0.68 | African-American, 45% |
|
Whittier College
Costa Mesa, CA |
0.67 | Asian-American, 15% |
|
St. Thomas University
Miami Gardens, FL |
0.64 | Hispanic, 41% |
|
University of the District of Columbia (Clarke)
Washington, DC |
0.63 | African-American, 32% |
|
University of San Francisco
San Francisco, CA |
0.63 | Asian-American, 14% |
|
University of California–Irvine
Irvine, CA |
0.62 | Asian-American, 23% |
|
University of California–Berkeley
Berkeley, CA |
0.62 | Asian-American, 17% |
|
Florida International University
Miami, FL |
0.62 | Hispanic, 45% |
|
CUNY
Long Island City, NY |
0.62 | Hispanic, 18% |
|
University of California (Hastings)
San Francisco, CA |
0.61 | Asian-American, 21% |
|
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara, CA |
0.61 | Asian-American, 25% |
|
Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey–Newark
Newark, NJ |
0.60 | African-American, 13% |
|
Cornell University
Ithaca, NY |
0.60 | Asian-American, 15% |
|
University of La Verne
Ontario, CA |
0.59 | Hispanic, 24% |
|
Atlanta's John Marshall Law School
Atlanta, GA |
0.59 | African-American, 26% |
|
Stanford University
Stanford, CA |
0.59 | Hispanic, 13% |
|
University of Southern California (Gould)
Los Angeles, CA |
0.59 | Asian-American, 19% |
|
University of New Mexico
Albuquerque, NM |
0.58 | Hispanic, 28% |
|
Western State College of Law at Argosy University
Fullerton, CA |
0.58 | Hispanic, 18% |
|
Loyola Marymount University
Los Angeles, CA |
0.57 | Asian-American, 19% |
|
Thomas Jefferson School of Law
San Diego, CA |
0.57 | Hispanic, 16% |
|
University of California–Davis
Davis, CA |
0.57 | Asian-American, 25% |
|
Southwestern Law School
Los Angeles, CA |
0.57 | Hispanic, 17% |
|
North Carolina Central University
Durham, NC |
0.56 | African-American, 49% |
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