Diversity at Massachusetts Institute of Technology has fallen since a Supreme Court ban on affirmative action
A prestigious US university has recorded a sharp fall in admissions from minorities following a Supreme Court decision to end affirmative action.
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology said 16 per cent of its new intake identify as from a minority, down 10 percentage points in one year.
Black enrolment fell from 15 per cent to 5 per cent.
The Supreme Court ruled in 2023 that university admissions schemes promoting diversity violated the US Constitution's equal protection clause.
In recent years, around 25% of MIT's enrolling undergraduate students have identified as Black, Hispanic, and/or Native American and Pacific Islander.
Its figures show that this year, the percentage of black students enrolled dropped to 5% from 15%, and the percentage of Hispanic and Latino students dropped to 11% from 16%.
White students make up 37% of the new class, compared with 38% last year, while the percentage of Asian American students rose to 47% from 40%.
The figures do not total 100% as some students identify as more than one race or ethnicity.
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