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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.

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School name	Diversity Index	Largest minority and its proportion
West Virginia University Morgantown, WV	0.22	African-American, 5%
Vermont Law School South Royalton, VT	0.22	Hispanic, 4%
University of Missouri–Kansas City Kansas City, MO	0.21	African-American, 5%
Charleston School of Law Charleston, SC	0.21	African-American, 6%
Southern Illinois University–Carbondale Carbondale, IL	0.21	Multiracial, 6%
Ohio Northern University (Pettit) Ada, OH	0.21	African-American, 7%
Quinnipiac University Hamden, CT	0.21	Asian-American, 5%
Gonzaga University Spokane, WA	0.20	Hispanic, 4%
Campbell University Raleigh, NC	0.20	African-American, 5%
Drake University Des Moines, IA	0.20	Hispanic, 5%
University of Utah (Quinney) Salt Lake City, UT	0.19	Asian-American, 4%
University of Louisville (Brandeis) Louisville, KY	0.19	African-American, 5%
University of Montana Missoula, MT	0.17	Native American, 4%
University of Maine Portland, ME	0.15	Asian-American, 3%
University of South Dakota Vermillion, SD	0.15	Multiracial, 2%
Appalachian School of Law Grundy, VA	0.14	African-American, 4%
Northern Kentucky University (Chase) Highland Heights, KY	0.13	African-American, 3%
Duquesne University Pittsburgh, PA	0.12	Asian-American, 3%
University of Nebraska–Lincoln Lincoln, NE	0.12	Asian-American, 2%

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