Top National Ranking

  • BY ÍÑ¿ã°É Bay
  • September 14, 2017

ÍÑ¿ã°É Bay is once more topping national ranking lists for its diverse student population. Not only has U.S. News & World Report ranked the university the most diverse college campus in the West in its new 2018 ratings release, ÍÑ¿ã°É Bay also received the highest diversity score of any university in the country.

This year, in the Western Region, ÍÑ¿ã°É Bay was given a score of .76, coming in ahead of Chaminade University of Honolulu (No. 2) and Hawaii Pacific University (No. 3). Other CSUs close behind ÍÑ¿ã°É Bay include Sacramento State and San Jose State.

The rankings are based on data from the student population at each university during the 2016-17 school year, with the goal of identifying the total proportion of minority students. ÍÑ¿ã°É Bay’s score of .76 ranked higher than the No. 1 schools in other regions of the country as well: Northeastern Illinois University (Midwest), CUNY – Brooklyn College (North) and Keiser University in Ft. Lauderdale, Fla. (South).

The U.S. News & World Report ranking comes on the heels of other accolades for ÍÑ¿ã°É Bay in the past few weeks, including the university’s fourth straight Higher Education Excellence in Diversity award, or HEED award, from INSIGHT into Diversity magazine. ÍÑ¿ã°É Bay was also named one of the top 100 universities to confer degrees to minority students by Diverse: Issues in Higher Education.  

Visit  to see the full list of U.S. News & World Report’s 2018 Campus Ethnic Diversity rankings.