Because we were not able to access faculty diversity data, we decided to analyze the student gender diversity based on acceptance rate, and racial diversity based on enrollment.
The University of Southern California (USC), University of Georgia (UGA), and Texas Christian University's (TCU's) racial diversity data from 2012 to 2019 and gender diversity data from 2014 to 2019 was examined and analyzed to better visualize the improvement or lack thereof of their diversity efforts.
University of Southern California
According to gender diversity data based on acceptance rate gathered from DataUSA, the University of Southern California (USC) saw a significant shift in 2017, when the number of accepted males (16.6%) exceeded the number of accepted females (15.4%). From 2017 to 2020, the number of acceptance rates dramatically decreased, however, the female-male ratio remained relatively close, with the number of males skewing a little higher.
From the racial diversity data gathered from DataUSA, USC has experienced many shifts in the span of seven years from 2012 to 2019. From 2014 to 2015, USC had a minor increase in White representation (34% to 35%), an increase in Non-resident Aliens (24% to 25%), and a decrease in Asian representation (19% to 18%). From 2016 to 2017, USC saw an increase in Hispanic/Latinx representation (13% to 15%). In more recent years, from 2018 to 2019, USC has seen a significant increase in Non-Resident Aliens, decrease in White representation, but a very neutral and insignificant change in Asian, Hispanic/Latinx and Asian representation.
University of Georgia
According to gender diversity data based on acceptance rate gathered from DataUSA, the University of Georgia (UGA), has seen a large gender disparity from 2014 to 2019. From 2016 to 2017, UGA saw a noticeable setback as male representation decreased from 50.7% to 49.9%, and an increase in female representation from 56% to approximately 57%. From 2017 to 2019, UGA experienced significant decreases in both female and male acceptance rates and no significant data shifts that indicate efforts to eliminate UGA's gender disparity.
From the racial diversity data gathered from DataUSA, UGA has a clearly predominately White population, and has had so for the past seven years spanning from 2012 to 2019. UGA has seen little to no shifts nor increases in Black, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian nor Non-resident Alien representations. From 2012 to 2019, UGA has remained between 60-70% White, and below 15% for all other races. The data shows a complete lack of effort to improve racial diversity over the seven year time frame.
Texas Christian University
According to gender diversity data based on acceptance rate gathered from DataUSA, Texas Christian University (TCU) has seen greater females acceptances than male acceptances from 2014 to 2019. From 2014 to 2016, both female and male acceptance rates decreased to below 40%. From 2016 to 2017, there was a 4% increase in female representation (38.2% to 42.2%), and a 3% increase in male representation (36.7% to 39.5%). Overall, the data shows that male and female acceptance rates moved in conjunction with one another over the five year time frame, with female representation skewed relatively higher.
From the racial diversity data gathered from DataUSA, TCU has remained a primarily White campus from 2012 to 2019. The one-year span from 2018 to 2019 shows a significant shift in the data, as the number of White individuals increased from 70% to 79.9%, the number of Hispanic individuals decreased from 14% to 5.3%, and the number of Asian individuals increased from 3% to 7.7%. Although the data shows that TCU has worked on improving its Asian representation over the past year, the data unfortunately also shows TCU's lack of effort to improve racial diversity among Black, Hispanic/Latinx and Non-resident Alien individuals.