The university provided racial demographics solely for domestic students, excluding international students – Media by Kaiolena Tacazon | The Brown Daily Herald
Sep 9, 2024 Story by: Editor
The proportion of Black and Hispanic students in Brown University’s incoming Class of 2028 has decreased by 10 percentage points from the previous year, dropping from 29% to 19%, according to demographic data shared by the university. This represents a notable reduction in diversity just a year after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn affirmative action.
Black student enrollment fell by six percentage points, while Hispanic students decreased by four percentage points. Meanwhile, the proportion of white students also saw a decline of three percentage points, but Asian American enrollment rose by four percentage points. Additionally, the share of students who opted not to disclose their race or ethnicity increased from 4% to 7%.
As colleges begin releasing demographic details for their first post-affirmative action class, these figures offer an initial glimpse into the repercussions of the Supreme Court’s 2023 ruling on diversity at selective institutions. Brown is the third Ivy League school to release such data, and its 10-percentage-point drop in Black and Hispanic students is the most significant among its peers. Princeton experienced a two-point decrease, while Yale noted a slight uptick in both Black and Hispanic student enrollment.
Brown’s drop in diversity aligns with other institutions like the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Black and Hispanic enrollment also declined by nearly 10 points, and Amherst College, which recorded a 13-percentage-point decrease. Source: IHE
