From Wikipedia: Historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) are institutions of higher education in the United States that were established before 1964 with the intention of serving the black community. A number of these schools were founded after the passage of the Morrill Act of 1890, requiring states that did not offer integrated public higher education to provide separate land grant colleges or universities for persons of color.
For a full list of HBCUs and information about their missions, see the website of the
National Association For Equal Opportunity in Higher Education (NAFEO).
SCORING: Data for scoring the schools comes from US News & World Report - Sept. 2013
The factors considered in scoring: freshman retention, graduation rate, % of classes with fewer than 20 students, % of classes with more than 50 students, and % of alumni donations. Where alumni donation information was unavailable, schools are given a minimum possible score.
I’m not a professional statistician nor education expert, so this system is not perfect. However, experts say these metrics are strong indicators of student happiness, the happiness of graduates with their experience, the seriousness your student's classmates will take his or her education, and the school's dedication to providing personal attention to your student.
A sample score: Fauxville State University: Freshmen Retention: 75%, Graduation Rate: 50%, Classes 20 & under: 33%, Classes 50 & over: 24%, freshmen in the top 10% of their graduating class 20%, and alumni giving: 10%. Fauxville State’s score would be 75 + 50 + 33 – 24 + 20 + 10 = 164. A perfect score would be 500.
This list includes schools that scored above 170.
The list may not be complete. Please feel free to leave a comment if you feel a school has been omitted in error.
Although this list reports the top scoring schools, this is not necessarily an endorsement of a good match for a student. Be sure to visit colleges and use resources such as the College Board, Cappex, Princeton Review, College Navigator, and College Prowler.
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Bennett College
Minimum Score 183 (Alumni giving percentage unavailable), like Spelman, Bennett is an Historically Black college for women, Greensboro, NC
Claflin University
Score: 227, a National Liberal Arts college, Orangeburg, SC, founded 1869, affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Alumni include artist Leo Twiggs, musician/producer Danny! (a.k.a. Daniel Swain), and Civil Rights activist, Gloria Blackwell.
Fisk University
Score 243, a national liberal arts college in Nashville, TN, Founded 1866, listed among the best colleges in the nation by sources such as Washington Monthly, Parade Magazine, and Princeton Review. Alumni include poet Nikki Giovanni, engineer and inventor of the electrical impulse control for artificial hearts, Otis Boykin, journalist and suffragist, Ida B. Wells, former U.S. Secretary of Energy, Hazel O'Leary, and world-famous sociologist and historian, W.E.B. DuBois.
Hampton University
Score 219, Hampton, Virginia
Howard University
Minimum Score, 226 (Alumni giving percentage is unavailable, because that information is absent, Howard may really have earned a higher spot on the list) Founded 1867, located in Washington DC. Howard is classified as a National Research University and has a student population of 10,000. The university was federally chartered by Congress following the Civil War. Famous Howard University faculty included philosopher and Rhodes Scholar, Alain Locke, and political scientist and Nobel Peace Prize winner, Ralph Bunche.
Former students include authors Zora Neale Hurston, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Amiri Baraka, and Toni Morrison; Musicians Roberta Flack, Shirley Horn, Angela Winbush, and opera singer, Jessye Norman; Politicians presidential adviser, Vernon Jordan, former New York City mayor, David Dinkins, former Governor of Virginia, L. Douglas Wilder, and former Supreme Court Justice, Thurgood Marshall.
Morehouse College
Score 238, a National Liberal Arts college in Atlanta, GA, founded 1867. One of the very few all-men colleges left in the U.S. and the sibling school to Spelman College. Alumni include politician Herman Cain, actor Samuel L. Jackson, director Spike Lee, and historic Civil Rights leader, Martin Luther King, Jr.
Spelman College
Score 294, top 100 national liberal arts college a leading college for women, and the sister school to Morehouse College. Located in Atlanta, GA. Founded 1881. In addition to producing authors like Alice Walker and Pearl Cleage, graduates of Spelman have become leaders in the worlds of business, politics, and media.
Tougaloo College
Score 223, Tougaloo, Mississippi
Tuskegee University
Score 200, Tuskegee, Alabama
Xavier University of Louisiana
Score 208, New Orleans, LA, the only historically black Roman Catholic institution of higher education.