The enrollment rate of black students in architecture has remained stagnant for the last decade and decreased over the past two and a half decades. In 2020, of the 26,977 total students enrolled in accredited structural architecture programs, only 5 percent identified as black. For accredited landscape architecture programs in 2020, of the 5,613 total students enrolled, only 3 percent identified as black. To explore this issue, a case study was used to provide an understanding of racial disparities in enrollment trends for black students in North Carolina undergraduate and graduate architecture programs. Specifically, descriptive statistics were used to explore how racial homophily, a bond influenced by shared racial identity, corresponds to black student enrollment trends in architecture programs for North Carolina State University (NC State) compared to North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University (NC A&T). Additionally, a content analysis was used to assess the role of diversity initiatives — any effort by an organization to facilitate recruitment, inclusion, or participation of underrepresented groups in their program — for black student enrollment trends in architecture programs for NC State compared to NC A&T. Overall, results suggested racial homophily had greater influence over black student enrollment than the implementation of diversity initiatives in North Carolina architecture programs.