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Thus, it may be a surprise to many readers, that Harvey Mudd College ranks second in our survey this year with an entering class that is 17.7 percent Black. While the achievement of Amherst College in attracting Black students to rural Massachusetts, can not be overstated, an equally compelling tale has taken place at Harvey Mudd College in Claremont, California, which bills itself as the nation’s top liberal arts college of engineering, science, and mathematics.

Black First-Year Enrollments at High-Ranking Liberal Arts Colleges, 2021 They make up 19.5 percent of the Class of 2025. There are 100 Black students in this year’s entering class. Now Amherst College has set a new standard. This was the largest percentage of Black students in an entering class in the history of our surveys of both high-ranking liberal arts colleges and the nation’s leading research universities. They make up 18.7 percent of the first-year class. There were 81 Black students in the 2020 entering class.

A year ago, Amherst College sat on top of the survey and the college set a new standard. At that time, this was the largest percentage of Black first-year students at any of the high-ranking liberal arts colleges in the history of the JBHE survey. They made up a whopping 18.2 percent of the first-year class. On six occasions, Wesleyan University in Middletown, Connecticut, had enrolled the highest percentage of Black first-year students.įive years ago, there were 87 Black first-year students at Amherst.

Over this long period, there have been 13 years when Amherst College in Massachusetts reported the highest percentage of Black first-year students. For the past 28 years, JBHE has collected Black student admissions data from the highest-ranked liberal arts colleges.