UNLV joins Stanford, 2 other schools atop US News rankings in 1 category

UNLV is location to 1 of the nation’s astir divers campuses, according to U.S. News & World Report.

The Campus Ethnic Diversity ranking identifies colleges wherever students are astir apt to brushwood undergraduates from radical oregon taste groups antithetic from their own. UNLV finished successful a four-way necktie for archetypal with Stanford, the University of Hawaii astatine Hilo and the University of San Francisco.

“At UNLV, our unthinkable pupil diverseness is 1 of our biggest assets, arsenic it brings aggregate perspectives to schoolroom and argumentation discussions, probe labs, co-curricular activities and assemblage conversations,” UNLV President Keith E. Whitfield said. “In places wherever there’s much diversity, I judge there’s amended learning. As 1 of the nation’s astir divers universities and 1 that continues to emergence arsenic a apical nationalist probe university, we enactment hard each time to amended the societal mobility of our graduates and to supply opportunities and enactment for each of our students, staff, and faculty.”

The listing considers the wide premix of Black, Latinx, Native American, Asian-American, Pacific Islander/Native Hawaiian, achromatic and multiracial (two oregon much races) students.

UNLV has ranked successful the apical 10 since the rankings debuted much than a decennary ago.

According to the ranking, much than 65 percent of UNLV’s undergraduates place arsenic portion of a radical oregon taste minority.

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