{"id":11360,"date":"2023-09-22T20:18:46","date_gmt":"2023-09-22T20:18:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11360"},"modified":"2023-09-22T20:18:46","modified_gmt":"2023-09-22T20:18:46","slug":"augsburg-ranked-as-most-ethnically-diverse-regional-university-in-the-midwest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2023\/09\/22\/augsburg-ranked-as-most-ethnically-diverse-regional-university-in-the-midwest\/","title":{"rendered":"Augsburg Ranked as Most Ethnically Diverse Regional University in the Midwest"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"The<\/a>Â̲èÖ±²¥ is the most ethnically diverse regional university in the Midwest, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2024 rankings<\/span><\/a>. U.S. News & World Report also ranked Augsburg #2 in undergraduate teaching, #3 for both social mobility and innovation, and #17 overall among the regional universities in the Midwest this year.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

To identify colleges where students are most likely to encounter undergraduates from racial or ethnic groups different from their own, U.S. News factors in the total proportion of students who identify as non-Hispanic African American, Hispanic, American Indian, Pacific Islander\/Native Hawaiian, Asian, non-Hispanic white, and multiracial (two or more races), as well as the overall mix of groups. The data for this year\u2019s rankings was drawn from each institution’s fall 2022 total undergraduate student body. The formula produces a diversity index that ranges from 0 to 1, with a high number indicating more diversity. Augsburg\u2019s diversity index in this year\u2019s ranking is 0.73.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Â̲èÖ±²¥ is the most ethnically diverse regional university in the Midwest, according to the U.S. News & World Report 2024 rankings. U.S. News & World Report also ranked Augsburg #2 in undergraduate teaching, #3 for both social mobility and innovation, and #17 overall among the regional universities in the Midwest this year.\u00a0 To identify …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[849,3628],"class_list":["post-11360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-diversity","tag-u-s-news-world-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11360"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11361,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11360\/revisions\/11361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}