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Fourteen percent of Harvard University’s Class of 2028 identify as Black or African American, a drop of four percentage points from last year, according to institutional data released Wednesday. The news comes a little over a year after the Supreme Court ruled against the university in Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard, one of two cases that resulted in the end of affirmative action.
Hispanic enrollment increased by two percentage points, to 16 percent, and Asian American enrollment remained unchanged, at 37 percent. Data for white student enrollment was not made available; 8 percent of students did not disclose their racial or ethnic identity, doubling last year’s undisclosed number.
Harvard is the latest in a slowly growing list of highly selective colleges to release demographic data for the Class of 2028, and the fourth Ivy League institution to do so. As of now, Black enrollment is down at many of the institutions whose data is public, though at some, including Yale and Duke Universities, it remained stable or increased.
