Affirmative
action
may
have
been
dismantled
in
higher
education
and
diversity
may
be
under
attack,
but
this
hasn’t
stopped
students
from
navigating
the
pathway
to
law
school.
Despite
these
challenges,
law
schools
have
been
doing
their
very
best
to
recruit
diverse
students
and
professors,
attempting
to
make
the
legal
profession
look
more
like
society
at
large.
Student
diversity
may
sadly
be
declining,
but
if
you’re
a
person
of
color
searching
for
a
law
school
where
you’ll
be
truly
valued
for
who
you
are
as
a
person,
then
have
we
got
a
ranking
for
you.
The
National
Jurist’s
preLaw
magazine
recently
released
its
Most
Diverse
Law
Schools
ranking,
highlighting
the
schools
that
are
really
doing
their
homework
when
it
comes
to
diversifying
their
institutions.
Here’s
the
methodology
that
was
used:
We
graded
schools
based
on
how
well
each
school
matches
with
the
U.S.
average
for
each
minority
population.
For
students,
we
looked
at
Asian
(which
includes
native
Hawaiian),
Black,
Hispanic,
Caucasian
and
American
Indian
populations.
For
faculty,
we
compared
the
percentage
of
minority
faculty
members
to
the
overall
U.S.
minority
population.
A
school
received
full
credit
when
it
matched
the
national
average
and
could
receive
up
to
40%
added
value
if
its
percentage
was
higher
than
the
national
average
for
each
population.
Faculty
diversity
accounted
for
25%
of
the
final
grade,
with
each
student
population
accounting
for
16.67%,
except
American
Indian,
which
accounted
for
8.32%
of
the
final
grade.
We
have
used
this
methodology
since
2013.
Without
further
ado,
here
are
the
top
20
most
diverse
law
schools:
-
CUNY
School
of
Law -
Texas
Southern
University -
University
District
of
Columbia -
Florida
A&M
University -
UNT
Dallas
|
College
of
Law -
University
of
San
Francisco -
Atlanta’s
John
Marshall -
Penn
State
–
Dickinson
Law -
North
Carolina
Central
University -
Barry
Law
School -
University
of
Nevada,
Las
Vegas -
University
of
Arizona -
Northern
Illinois
University -
UCLA
Law -
South
Texas
Houston -
Yale
Law
School -
Southwestern
Law
School -
University
of
Houston -
George
Washington
University -
Oklahoma
City
University
As
you
can
see,
two
of
the
best
law
schools
in
the
country
—
UCLA
and
Yale
—
made
their
way
to
the
top
of
the
diversity
ranking
this
time
around.
If
you’re
looking
for
T14
law
schools,
you’ll
find
several
of
them
in
the
unranked
portion
of
this
list,
designated
only
by
their
letter
grades
(A-).
Click
here
to
see
the
full
rankings,
courtesy
of
National
Jurist.
Congratulations
to
each
of
the
law
schools
listed
and
all
of
their
students!
Most
Diverse
Law
Schools
[preLaw
magazine
/
National
Jurist]
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