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 )
2003 Name, location Internet address Total % black 2001 1 Morehouse College, www.morehouse.edu 2,729 95.2% 1 2 Hampton University, www.hamptonu.edu 4,965 94.8 4 3 Spelman College, www.spelman.edu 2,138 96.4 2 4 Howard University, www.howard.edu 6,971 68.7 5 5 Xavier University, www.xula.edu 3,340 89.5 6 6 Florida A&M University, www.famu.edu 10,853 95.1 3 7 Stanford University, www.stanford.edu 7,279 7.9 7 8 Columbia University, www.columbia.edu 6,867 7.0 10 9 Georgetown University, www.georgetown.edu 6,422 6.3 9 10 Clark Atlanta University, www.cau.edu 3,923 93.2 8 11 Harvard University, www.harvard.edu 9,637 6.7 19 12 Duke University, www.duke.edu 6,203 10.2 16 13 Berea College, www.berea.edu 1,673 14.2 32 14 Williams College, www.williams.edu 1,997 6.7 24 15 University of North Carolina, www.unc.edu 15,844 11.2 14 16 Oberlin College, www.oberlin.edu 2,840 8.0 11 17 Emory University, www.emory.edu 6,374 9.6 12 18 Wesleyan University, www.wesleyan.edu 2,792 8.6 17 19 North Carolina A&T Univ., www.ncat.edu 7,331 91.7 13 20 University of Maryland, www.maryland.edu 25,099 13.1 33 21 Tuskegee University, www.tuskegee.edu 2,513 97.5 15 22 Fisk University, www.fisk.edu 819 93.2 22 23 University of Pennsylvania, www.upenn.edu 11,781 6.1 28 24 George Washington University, www.gwu.edu 10,063 6.4 31 25 Cornell University, www.cornell.edu 2,273 5.9 45 26 Wellesley College, www.wellesley.edu 2,273 5.9 35 27 University of Michigan, www.umich.edu 24,547 7.8 44 28 Univ. of Southern California, www.usc.edu 16,037 6.5 27 29 Mount Holyoke College, www.mtholyoke.edu 2,037 4.6 42 30 Amherst College, www.amherst.edu 1,640 8.7 20 31 Wake Forest University, www.wfu.edu/ 4,136 7.0 n.a. 32 New York University, www.nyu.edu 19,028 6.1 39 33 Swarthmore College, www.swarthmore.edu 1,467 8.0 18 34 Florida State University, www.fsu.edu 28,231 12.5 23 35 Morgan State University, www.morgan.edu 5,974 91.4 26 36 Johnson C. Smith University, www.jcsu.edu 1,595 99.9 25 37 Southern University and A&M College, www.subr.edu 7,472 97.5 36 38 Johns Hopkins University, www.jhu.edu 5,370 6.9 29 39 Vassar College, www.vassar.edu 2,439 4.7 21 40 Yale University, www.yale.edu 5,286 7.5 40 41 Temple University, www.temple.edu 19,606 23.9 37 42 Brown University, www.brown.edu 5,999 5.8 50 43 Dillard University, www.dillard.edu 2,137 99.3 41 44 Tennessee State University, www.tnstate.edu 7,060 82.3 30 45 Ohio State University, www.osu.edu 36,049 8.1 n.a. 46 Florida International University, www.fiu.edu 25,971 13.9 n.a. 47 California State University, www.calstatela.edu 14,150 7.5 n.a. 48 Bethune-Cookman College, www.bethune.cookman.edu 2,724 88.5 34 49 Mass. Institute of Technology, www.mit.edu 4,213 6.1 49 50 Univ. of California Los Angeles, www.ucla.edu 25,328 3.7 46
NOTE: 2003 survey is the latest available.
Copyright 2006. Reprinted with permission from Black Enterprise magazine, New York, N.Y.
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