Minority Enrollment Holds Steady At Top U.S. Law Schools

Reuters, Minority Enrollment Holds Steady at Top U.S. Law Schools, Early Data Indicates:

Early data from a handful of top U.S. law schools shows the percentage of nonwhite students enrolling this year has remained mostly unchanged following the 2023 U.S. Supreme Court ruling barring colleges and universities from considering race in admissions.

Six of the top 20 U.S. law schools—as ranked by U.S. News & World Report—have disclosed some racial diversity data on their websites or provided it directly to Reuters as of Sept. 5. Of those, five reported that the percentage of first-year students of color this fall increased or remained steady this year. One said that figure declined.

The five that reported either no change or increases in the percentage of minorities in their entering classes were the University of Virginia School of Law; the University of California at Los Angeles School of Law; Cornell Law School; Vanderbilt University Law School; and the University of Southern California Gould School of Law. Minority enrollment for first-year classes at those five law schools averaged 44%.

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