JHU rated high in black enrollee gain
(11/21/02 5:00am)
A recent article in The Journal of Blacks in Higher Education stated that this year's undergraduate freshman class at Johns Hopkins showed an 82.9 percent increase in the number of African-American enrollees as compared to last year. The report said "Johns Hopkins ... [a school] with a heavy concentration in the sciences, posted impressive gains in black first-year enrollments ...[T]he number of blacks in the first-year class rose from 35 in 2001 to 64 this year. Blacks make up 5.7 percent of all freshmen... this year compared to 3.5 percent last year."