Enrollment of Black and Latino students at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has significantly declined in the first admissions cycle since the Supreme Court’s ruling against race-conscious admissions. The admissions department revealed that only 5% of the incoming class of 2028 is Black, down from an average of 13% in previous years. Latino students now comprise 11% of the class, a drop from the typical 15%. In total, 1,102 students make up the first-year class.
MIT’s dean of admissions, Stu Schmill, attributed this decline to the 2023 Supreme Court decision, which barred the consideration of race in the college admissions process. “We anticipated this would lead to fewer students from historically underrepresented racial and ethnic groups enrolling at MIT,” Schmill said. “And that’s exactly what happened.”
