Based on responses from nearly 1,000 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 1.5%), academic strengths, social environment, and graduation rates. (Web:
www.blackenterprise.com )
2001
Rank Name, location Internet address Total
student
population % black 1999
Rank
1 Morehouse College, Atlanta, Ga.
www.morehouse.edu 2,876 96.5% 2
2 Spelman College, Atlanta, Ga.
www.spelman.edu 2,008 96.5 1
3 Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Fla.
www.famu.edu 9,185 95.1 3
4 Hampton University, Hampton, Va.
www.hamptonu.edu 4,765 n.a. 7
5 Howard University, Washington, D.C.
www.howard.edu 6,050 98.5 5
6 Xavier University, New Orleans, La.
www.xula.edu 3,131 93.8 6
7 Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.
www.stanford.edu 6,408 8.5 10
8 Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.
www.cau.edu 3,721 99.8 4
9 Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.
www.georgetown.edu 6,085 5.9 11
10 Columbia University, New York, N.Y.
www.columbia.edu 3,913 9.5 15
11 Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio
www.oberlin.edu 2,848 7.3 12
12 Emory University, Atlanta, Ga.
www.emory.edu 6,091 n.a. 16
13 North Carolina A&T Univ., Greensboro, N.C.
www.ncat.edu 6,088 96.4 9
14 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.
www.unc.edu 14,592 11.0 19
15 Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Ala.
www.tuskegee.edu 2,510 98.1 8
16 Duke University, Durham, N.C.
www.duke.edu 6,322 8.8 20
17 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
www.wesleyan.edu 2,753 9.6 22
18 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.
www.swarthmore.edu 1,461 8.9 13
19 Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.
www.harvard.edu 6,663 7.9 28
20 Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.
www.amherst.edu 1,688 6.3 17
21 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
www.vassar.edu 2,276 5.0 14
22 Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.
www.fisk.edu 794 100.0 23
23 Florida State University, Tallahassee, Fla.
www.fsu.edu 22,241 12.4 26
24 Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.
www.williams.edu 2,074 6.7 35
25 Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, N.C.
www.jcsu.edu 1,546 99.9 18
26 Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md.
www.morgan.edu 6,179 92.8 21
27 Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.
www.usc.edu 14,757 5.9 30
28 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.
www.upenn.edu 9,323 5.4 34
29 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.
www.jhu.edu 3,904 5.9 29
30 Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tenn.
www.tnstate.edu 6,125 87.3 24
31 George Washington University, Washington, D.C.
www.gwu.edu 7,427 6.0 36
32 Berea College, Berea, Ky.
www.berea.edu 1,493 11.9 —
33 University of Maryland, College Park, Md.
www.maryland.edu 21,845 16.9 —
34 Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, Fla.
www.bethune.cookman.edu 2,357 91.0 27
35 Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.
www.wellesley.edu 2,240 7.1 40
36 Southern University and A&M College, Baton Rouge, La.
www.subr.edu 9,567 n.a. 33
37 Temple University, Philadelphia, Pa.
www.temple.edu 14,291 26.8 —
38 Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr, Pa.
www.brynmawr.edu 1,197 4.3 25
39 New York University, New York, N.Y.
www.nyu.edu 15,983 6.0 43
40 Yale University, New Haven, Conn.
www.yale.edu 5,381 7.2 41
41 Dillard University, New Orleans, La.
www.dillard.edu 1,792 n.a. 37
42 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, Mass.
www.mtholyoke.edu 1,900 5.1 46
43 North Carolina Central Univ., Durham, N.C.
www.nccu.edu 3,175 92.0 31
44 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Mich.
www.umich.edu 23,063 8.0 —
45 Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.
www.cornell.edu 13,669 4.5 50
46 Univ. of California Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Calif.
www.ucla.edu 24,668 4.7 42
47 Univ. of South Carolina, Columbia, S.C.
www.sc.edu 12,676 17.6 —
48 Wayne State University, Detroit, Mich.
www.wayne.edu 9,015 23.2 —
49 Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
www.mit.edu 4,690 5.7 45
50 Brown University, Providence, R.I.
www.brown.edu 5,777 6.2 —
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