Harvard University (a top universities in the United States, see also best Canadian university programs) in Cambridge, MA, now has the largest percentage of Black students among the eight Ivy League universities, according to a study by The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education.
Harvard has a student body that is 7.2 percent Black. Yale and Columbia follow Harvard each with a student body that is 6.9 percent Black.
Brown University, where 5.7 percent of the students are Black, ranks fourth.
Cornell University has the lowest percentage of Black students among the Ivy League schools. Only 4.2 percent of all Cornell students are Black.
According to the Journal's survey, Harvard also ranks first among the Ivy League schools in the percentage increase of Black students since 1980. The percentage of the total Black student body at Harvard rose from 5.2 percent in 1980 to 7.2 percent today.
Yale, Columbia and the University of Pennsylvania also saw increases in the 1980 to 1996 period, the Journal reported.
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