Hawaii’s universities landed top rankings in a list that graded colleges across the country on overall diversity.
Hawaii Pacific University got first place, while Chaminade got second and the University of Hawaii at Manoa got fourth.
Third place went to Stanford University.
The rankings, from College Factual, looked at ethnic, geographic and male to female diversity.

Photo: Students at UH Manoa’s spring 2013 commencement ceremony. (Courtesy of UH System via Flickr.)
— Alia Wong
GET IN-DEPTH
REPORTING ON HAWAII’S BIGGEST ISSUES
What it means to support Civil Beat.
Supporting Civil Beat means you’re investing in a newsroom that can devote months to investigate corruption. It means we can cover vulnerable, overlooked communities because those stories matter. And, it means we serve you. And only you.
Donate today and help sustain the kind of journalism Hawaiʻi cannot afford to lose.