@ucbalumnus – you make a good point. From what I understand, roughly half of WUSTL’s endowment is earmarked to the University hospitals and medical school. WUSTL has definitely stated that the cost of education is significantly more than tuition and expenses – so the endowment and gifts do figure prominently.
WUSTL has made a commitment to increase the economic diversity of the school – they have a long ways to go but are approaching 13% of student body that are Pell-eligible. As an aside, they just signed an agreement with KIPP in St. Louis to either provide a free or cover significant portions of the cost of education of any admitted alumni of KIPP schools from across the nation. Small steps…
Here are the top 50 sorted by percent white based on 12-month total enrollment.
From IPEDS
82% Washington and Lee University
70% University of Notre Dame
67% Colgate University
65% Carleton College
64% Hamilton College
64% Haverford College
63% Macalester College
61% University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
61% Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
60% College of William and Mary
59% Vassar College
59% Boston College
59% Reed College
58% Grinnell College
58% Vanderbilt University
56% Williams College
55% Tufts University
55% Washington University in St Louis
53% Georgetown University
53% Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
52% Case Western Reserve University
50% Northeastern University
50% University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
49% Duke University
48% Northwestern University
47% Dartmouth College
46% University of Pennsylvania
45% Johns Hopkins University
45% Princeton University
44% University of Chicago
44% Harvard University
44% Harvey Mudd College
43% Brown University
43% Claremont McKenna College
43% Pomona College
42% Amherst College
42% Cornell University
41% Swarthmore College
40% Emory University
39% Yale University
39% Columbia University in the City of New York
39% Wellesley College
38% Rice University
36% Massachusetts Institute of Technology
35% Stanford University
34% University of Southern California
33% Carnegie Mellon University
32% Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
28% California Institute of Technology
27% University of California-Berkeley
Assuming that the number of Black, Hispanic, Native American or Asian Jews approaches zero, that means that 12 percent of Yale’s undergraduates are non-Jewish whites.
If we assume the same mix applies to the Jewish student body at Yale, and multiply the 27 percent who are Jewish by 94 percent who self-identify as white, that leaves us with Yale’s student body being 25 percent white Jews, or 14 percent non-Jewish whites.
81% Clemson University
75% University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus
75% University of Wisconsin-Madison
72% North Carolina State University at Raleigh
70% Tulane University of Louisiana
70% University of Notre Dame
67% University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
64% University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
61% University of Michigan-Ann Arbor
60% University of Connecticut
60% University of Virginia-Main Campus
59% Boston College
58% Vanderbilt University
57% University of Florida
55% Tufts University
55% George Washington University
55% Washington University in St Louis
53% Georgetown University
53% Georgia Institute of Technology-Main Campus
52% Case Western Reserve University
52% University of Maryland-College Park
50% Northeastern University
50% University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
49% Duke University
48% Brandeis University
48% Northwestern University
46% The University of Texas at Austin
46% University of Pennsylvania
45% Johns Hopkins University
45% Princeton University
44% University of Chicago
44% Harvard University
43% Brown University
42% Boston University
42% Cornell University
40% Emory University
40% University of Miami
39% Yale University
39% Columbia University in the City of New York
39% The University of Texas at Dallas
38% Rice University
36% Massachusetts Institute of Technology
36% New York University
35% Stanford University
34% University of Southern California
33% Carnegie Mellon University
28% California Institute of Technology
28% University of California-Los Angeles
27% University of California-Berkeley
22% University of California-San Diego
The top 50 colleges and universities nationally were included precisely by @collegehelp (#44) as considered by the standardized scoring of entering students.
for example different numbers were shown for Tulane.
For the class of 2020 on their website:
Nearly one-fourth of the incoming class are students of color, multi-racial, bi-racial or international, and just over 41 percent of the class is male.
So if that’s 24% non-white / non-International, Tulane seems to be much whiter than those numbers…
Interesting that the eight of the 10 schools with the highest percentage of whites are public (Notre Dame and Tulane are outliers), while other than the UC’s, most of the least-white schools are private.
The source for my data is the US Department of Education IPEDS database. It comes from the most recent year that is publically available.(2014-15).
I divided “White” by “Grand Total”.
Here are the categories used by the US Dept of Ed:
American Indian or Alaska Native
Asian
Black or African American
Hispanic
Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander
White
Two or more races
Race/ethnicity unknown
Nonresident alien
I would take that number with a gigantic grain of salt, especially given that the specified number of Jewish undergrads (1,500) exactly equals the specified number of Jewish grad students. I think that somebody guestimated a big round number and they went with it…
@foosondaughter - That was my initial thought, but if you look at the numbers reported by Hillel for the other Ivy League schools or for other highly ranked schools in general, they do not appear to be out of line. If the numbers are fudged, they are probably done so on the national level by Hillel.
Here is the percent white data for some top LACs. I had never heard of Concordia College at Moorhead. Are they legit?
83% Concordia College at Moorhead
82% Washington and Lee University
81% Elon University
80% Truman State University
80% Centre College
78% Bucknell University
76% St Olaf College
75% Wheaton College
74% University of Puget Sound
74% SUNY College at Geneseo
74% Rhodes College
74% St John’s College
74% Kenyon College
74% Villanova University
73% Whitman College
71% Thomas Aquinas College
70% New College of Florida
70% Oberlin College
69% Davidson College
68% Lafayette College
67% Colgate University
67% United States Military Academy
65% United States Coast Guard Academy
65% Emerson College
65% United States Air Force Academy
65% Carleton College
65% United States Naval Academy
64% Hamilton College
64% Haverford College
63% Middlebury College
63% Macalester College
61% Skidmore College
61% Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
61% Colby College
60% College of William and Mary
59% Vassar College
59% California Polytechnic State University-San Luis Obispo
59% Reed College
58% Grinnell College
58% University of Richmond
56% Trinity University
56% Williams College
53% Barnard College
53% University of San Diego
49% Occidental College
49% Scripps College
47% Santa Clara University
47% Dartmouth College
45% Pepperdine University
44% Harvey Mudd College
43% Claremont McKenna College
43% Pomona College
42% Amherst College
41% Swarthmore College
39% Wellesley College
37% Bryn Mawr College
32% Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art
Yep. They are associated with the Concordia Language Villages, and are the credit granting institution for the 4-week college credit courses. A small school that doesn’t get many mentions other than locally.
@foosondaughter - Something about the numbers bothered me, so I did some more research. If you go to the Hillel site and add up their estimate of Jewish college students in the US (about 120+ schools), the total number is around 210,000 undergraduates, or 52,500 per annum.
The Pew report linked earlier lists the total population of Jews in America at 5,300,000. Of that total, 20% are in the 19 to 29 age cohort. Multiplying 5.3 million by 20 percent, and then dividing that number by 12 for the years in the age cohort produces a total of around 88,333 new 18 year olds each year.
The Pew survey also reports that 58 percent of Jews are college graduates, in comparison with 29 percent for the general population. Multiplying the 88,300 by 58 percent suggests about 51,233 new college graduates per year. This is a very similar figure to what Hillel reports for undergraduate enrollment.
If Hillel were significantly over-counting or under-counting, the overall numbers of college students would not be so similar.