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The share of Black and Hispanic students in Brown University’s incoming Class of 2028 dropped by 10 percentage points since last year, from 29 percent to 19 percent, according to demographic data released by the university. That marks a significant decline in diversity one year after the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action.
The proportion of incoming Black students fell by six percentage points and Hispanic students by four percentage points. The proportion of white students also fell by three percentage points, while Asian American enrollment increased by four percentage points. The share of students who declined to report their race or ethnic rose from 4 percent to 7 percent.
Colleges are slowly releasing demographic data for the first post–affirmative action class, providing an early snapshot of the impact summer 2023’s landmark Supreme Court decision has had on diversity at selective institutions. Brown is the third Ivy League institution to do so, and its 10-percentage-point decline in Black and Hispanic students is the steepest among its peers: Princeton saw a two-percentage-point decline, while Yale experienced a slight increase in Black and Hispanic enrollment.
The drop-off in diversity puts Brown more in line with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where Black and Hispanic student enrollment fell by nearly 10 points, and Amherst College, which saw a 13-percentage-point decline.
