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Top 50 Colleges for Black Students

Based on responses from nearly 1,855 African-American professionals in higher education, Black Enterprise magazine has ranked the top 50 colleges and universities where African-American students are most likely to succeed. The ranking considers factors such as black population (at least 3%), academic strengths, social environment, and graduation rates. (Web: www.blackenterprise.com )

2008
Rank		 Name, location Internet address Total
student
population		 Black
student
population		 2006
Rank
1 Spelman College, Atlanta, Ga. www.spelman.edu 2,191 2,178 5
2 Howard University, Washington, D.C. www.howard.edu 6,807 4,487 2
3 Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga. www.morehouse.edu n.a. n.a. 45
4 Hampton University, Hampton, Va. www.hamptonu.edu 4,736 4,533 6
5 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C. www.georgetown.edu 6,630 467 21
6 Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif. www.stanford.edu 6,392 660 7
7 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa. www.swarthmore.edu 1,491 126 39
8 Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn. www.fisk.edu 862 776 n.a.
9 Amherst College, Amherst, Mass. www.amherst.edu n.a. n.a. n.a.
10 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. www.harvard.edu 7,209 568 4
11 Columbia University, New York, N.Y. www.columbia.edu 6,399 491 8
12 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C. www.wfu.edu 4,236 267 22
13 Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga. www.cau.edu 4,271 3,737 n.a.
14 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. www.wesleyan.edu 2,798 189 10
15 Yale University, New Haven, Conn. www.yale.edu 5,303 437 20
16 Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Ala. www.tuskegee.edu n.a. n.a. n.a.
17 Xavier University, New Orleans, La. www.xula.edu n.a. n.a. n.a.
18 Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Fla. www.famu.edu 9,070 8,610 1
19 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa. www.upenn.edu 10,138 695 9
20 Brown University, Providence, R.I. www.brown.edu 5,750 396 19
21 North Carolina A&T Univ., Greensboro, N.C. www.ncat.edu 8,666 8,093 3
22 Pomona University, Claremont, Calif. www.csupomona.edu n.a. 1,545 not listed
23 Princeton University, Princeton, N.J. www.princeton.edu 4,790 415 38
24 Williams College, Williamstown, Mass. www.williams.edu 2,000 193 24
25 Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. www.cornell.edu 13,548 681 26
26 North Carolina Central University, Durham, N.C. www.nccu.edu 4,800 4,271 30
27 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md. www.jhu.edu n.a. n.a. n.a.
28 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio www.oberlin.edu 2,744 150 29
29 Emory University, Atlanta, Ga. www.emory.edu 6,538 597 37
30 Dillard University, New Orleans, La. www.dillard.edu n.a. n.a. n.a.
31 Duke University, Durham, N.C. www.duke.edu 6,294 597 14
32 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C. www.unc.edu 16,319 1,753 32
33 University of California-Berkeley, Berkeley, Calif. http://berkeley.edu n.a. n.a. n.a.
34 Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tenn. www.tnstate.edu 5,752 4,887 17
35 Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill. www.northwestern.edu 8,132 462 49
36 Jackson State University, Jackson, MS www.jsums.edu 5,583 5,383 28
37 Smith College, Northampton, MA www.smith.edu 2,598 186 15
38 Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn. www.vanderbilt.edu n.a. n.a. n.a.
39 University of Virginia-Main Campus, Charlottesville, V. www.virginia.edu n.a. n.a. n.a.
40 Grambling State University, Charlottesville, V. www.gram.edu 4,219 3,850 n.a.
41 Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass. www.wellesley.edu 2,200 125 12
42 Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md. www.morgan.edu 5,334 4,965 n.a.
43 Barnard College, New York, N.Y. www.barnard.edu 2,300 105 16
44 Haverford College, Haverford, Penn. www.haverford.edu 1,169 88 n.a.
45 Davidson College, Davidson, N.C. www.davidson.edu 1,674 109 43
46 New York University, New York, N.Y. www.nyu.edu 19,482 780 n.a.
47 Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif. www.usc.edu n.a. n.a. n.a.
48 University of Maryland, College Park, Md. www.maryland.edu 23,124 2,913 50
49 South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, S.C. www.scsu.edu 3,528 3,453 n.a.
50 Charlton College, Northfield, Minn. www.carleton.edu 1,966 109 n.a.
NOTE: 2009 survey is the latest available.
Copyright 2009. Reprinted with permission from Black Enterprise magazine, New York, N.Y.

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