At Peirce College in Pennsylvania, 76 percent of online bachelor's students were minorities in 2013-2014.
In these 10 online bachelor's programs, more than half of the students enrolled in 2013-2014 were minorities.
In a virtual classroom, students don't always get the chance to see their fellow classmates. But if they had the chance to peek, they'd likely see a lot of white faces.
Despite being 63 percent of the population, white students were an even larger presence in online courses. They made up nearly 70 percent of online students in 2014, according to a recent study by Aslanian Market Research and the Learning House, a company that helps colleges and universities develop and deliver online degree programs.
Yet there are some programs where whites are not the majority.
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At the 10 online bachelor's programs with the highest percentages of minority students, 57 percent of students or more identified as black, Asian or part of another minority group in 2013-2014, according to data reported to U.S. News by 217 ranked schools in an annual survey.
Peirce College, the school with the largest percentage of minority students, enrolled 849 black students and 84 Hispanic students among the 1,280 studying for online bachelor's degrees in 2013-2014. The private, Philadelphia-based school focuses on giving working adults access to higher education.
Hispanic students made up more than half the enrollment in the online bachelor's program at Florida International University, which had the second-highest percentage of minority students. At the Miami-based school, 75 percent of online bachelor's students were minorities. New York had three online bachelor's programs that cracked the top 10 list of programs with the most minority students: Monroe College, St. John's University and Mercy College.
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Overall, minority students made up an average of 27 percent of the student body at the online bachelor's programs that reported the data to U.S. News. West Virginia-based Wheeling Jesuit University and Michigan's Madonna University were the only programs that reported having no minority students in their online bachelor's programs.
Below are the 10 ranked online bachelor's programs with the highest percentages of minority students enrolled in 2013-2014. Percentages are calculated using the total student body and the number of Hispanic, black, indigenous, Asian, Polynesian and multiracial students each program reported.
Unranked schools, which did not meet certain criteria required by U.S. News to be numerically ranked, were not considered for this report. Keiser University was labeled RNP, or Rank Not Published, which means it fell in the bottom one-fourth of its ranking category. U.S. News calculates numerical ranks for RNP schools, but does not publish them.
| School name (state) | Total students in 2013-2014 | Percentage of minority students in 2013-2014 | U.S. News rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Peirce College (PA) | 1,280 | 76% | 72 (tie) |
| Florida International University | 1,059 | 75% | 98 (tie) |
| North Carolina A&T State University | 429 | 75% | 119 (tie) |
| Monroe College (NY) | 583 | 75% | 142 (tie) |
| Faulkner University (AL) | 50 | 74% | 167 (tie) |
| St. John's University (NY) | 41 | 68% | 34 (tie) |
| California State University—Dominguez Hills | 785 | 67% | 140 (tie) |
| Mercy College (NY) | 1,436 | 64% | 207 (tie) |
| University of the Incarnate Word (TX) | 2,594 | 59% | 50 (tie) |
| Keiser University (FL) | 1,509 | 57% | RNP |
U.S. News surveyed 296 public, private and for-profit schools for our 2015 Best Online Bachelor's Programs rankings. Schools reported myriad data regarding their academic programs and the makeup of their student body, among other areas, making U.S. News' data the most accurate and detailed collection of college facts and figures of its kind. While U.S. News uses much of these survey data to rank schools for our annual Best Online Bachelor's Programs rankings, the data can also be useful when examined on a smaller scale. U.S. News will now produce lists of data, separate from the overall rankings, meant to provide students and parents a means to find which schools excel, or have room to grow, in specific areas that are important to them. These data are specific to schools' online bachelor's degree program offerings and have no influence over U.S. News' Best Colleges rankings assessing
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