Brandeis University
- Diversity

Diversity.

The campus is very diverse ethnically. Peoples of all different races are represented. Lots of lgbt students and very accepting of those from other backgrounds. There is obviously a very large jewish population, which takes away from religious diversity to an extent. Almost everyone is on some form of financial aid or academic scholarship, so its not your normal private school. Personally, I find this annoying because everyone is always complaining about money, and is too poor to go out more than twice a month. Almost everyone is very liberal and the vast majority of students are democrats.

Brandeis Diversity

You make your own experience at Brandeis. I grew up in an affluent Jewish suburb and knew that I wanted a more diverse group of friends in college and find this at Brandeis was not difficult.

If you want the typical Jewish experience, it is there for the taking (and quite a few people, including some of my closest friends took this route). If you only want to hang out with internationals, that's also doable. I can't say enough good things about the students from the Posse Program and the TYP Program.

My best friends were Jewish, Catholic, scattered across the socio-economic spectrum, from Latin America and Asia.

As Diverse as It Gets

One of the huge deciding factors for me in choosing Brandeis was its diverse student body. Many schools will brag about the statistics of the percentages of different racial and ethnic minorities, yet the students will self segregate themselves. Brandeis is extremely special in that all of these different types of people are extremely close knit. Students of all colors are very accepting of each other, along with warm and welcoming.