Surprise: Harvard is one of the whitest colleges in the Ivy League
Not that big of a surprise
New data confirms what you have probably already guessed: Harvard is one of the whitest Ivies in the League.
Stats from College Scorecard reveal 46 percent of Harvard’s students are white, making us the second whitest college in the Ivy League, after Princeton.
Harvard’s ethnic breakdown: Source
The second biggest demographic is Asian at 18 percent, compared to a 16.4 percent average across the Ivy League and only five percent of the US population.
The next largest group is made up of “non-resident aliens” who account for 10 percent of the college.
On average, white people make up 45 percent of Ivy League colleges, compared to 62 percent of the US population.
And while just over five percent of the US identifies as Asian, the group accounts for 16.4 percent of each Ivy.
Hispanic and black people are under-represented throughout the Ivy League, making up just 10 and seven percent respectively, whereas they constitute over 17 and 13 percent of the national population.