Last June, the Supreme Court ruled that colleges and universities that
receive federal funding may no longer consider race in undergraduate
admissions decisions. As I explained in a blog post at the time, we
expected that this would result in fewer students from historically
underrepresented racial and ethnic groups enrolling at MIT. That’s what
has happened.
As a baseline, in recent years around 25% of our enrolling undergraduate
students have identified as Black, Hispanic, and/or Native American and
Pacific Islander. For the incoming Class of 2028, that number is about
16%. (For comparison, federal data show that 45% of K-12 students in
American public schools are classified as members of these groups.)
