Newcastle University Ranks Low on Minority Students

According to this year's Times Good University Guide, Newcastle university has ranked amongst the lowest of UK Russell Group Universities for percentage of student population coming from an ethnic minority background with just 13.5% of the attendees being comprised of students not from an ethnic majority upbringing.

The University ranks third from the bottom, just above the University of Exeter and Queen’s University Belfast according to the report, (10.6% and 4.6% respectively) and just below Durham University, which was recorded as having a minority student population of 13.7%.

Dominating further up on the list was London, taking up the entire top 5: University College London, 58.2%, Imperial College London, 61.6%, the London School of Economics, 62.6%, King College London 66.4% and at the number one spot for most students of an ethnic minority background was Queen Mary, University of London with 88.4% of the student population being reported as not being from an ethnic majority.