MIT’s Drop in Black Students Shows Fallout From Top Court Ruling (3)

The share of Black students in the incoming class at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology plummeted after the Supreme Court effectively banned considering race as a factor in undergraduate admissions last year.

The university said Wednesday the class of 2028 is 5% Black, down from an average of 13% in recent years. The share of Hispanic students in the class is 11%, down from 15%, MIT said.

Meanwhile, Asian Americans will make up 47% of MIT’s incoming class, up from 41%. Students for Fair Admissions, the group that brought the Supreme Court case against Harvard and the University of North Carolina that led to ...