UH named top ethnically diverse school

Best College Reviews, a ranking service for American colleges and universities, recently released a list of the top 50 Ethnically Diverse Schools, which included the University of Houston.

According to the ranking service, UH’s total student population is 21.6 percent Asian, 10.8 percent black or AfricanAmerican, 30.7 percent Hispanic/Latino, and 27.7 percent white. Amongst the college’s diverse student body are a number of student clubs and organizations available for students. There is the Afghan Student Association, Albanian Coogs, Bangladeshi Students Association, Black Student Union, Chinese Student Association, MexicanAmerican Pharmacy Student Association, Middle Eastern Student Association, Russian Coogs, and the South Asian Law Students Association, to name a few.

Best College Reviews’ gathered statistics and definitions of race/ethnicity gathered from the National Center for Education Statistics and Diverse Issues in Higher Education and school websites.

The full list can be viewed at www.bestcollegereviews.org/features/ top-ethnically-diversecolleges.

“For me, diversity is an important concept in my life,” said Nick Plato, who compiled the list, in a news release. “I thought it important to find schools with intentional mission to be diverse that would serve young people in their search for a college to call home. A paraphrase of Maya Angelou communicates the truth about diversity best, ‘It is time to teach that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.’”