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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 )

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

NOTE: 2003 survey is the latest available.

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