Top 50 Colleges for Black Students, 2008

Updated June 13, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

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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
1	Spelman College, Atlanta, Ga.	www.spelman.edu
2	Howard University, Washington, D.C.	www.howard.edu
3	Morehouse, Atlanta, Ga.	www.morehouse.edu
4	Hampton University, Hampton, Va.	www.hamptonu.edu
5	Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.	www.georgetown.edu
6	Stanford University, Palo Alto, Calif.	www.stanford.edu
7	Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, Pa.	www.swarthmore.edu
8	Fisk University, Nashville, Tenn.	www.www.fisk.edu
9	Amherst College, Amherst, Mass.	www.amherst.edu
10	Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass.	www.harvard.edu
11	Columbia University, New York, N.Y.	www.columbia.edu
12	Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C.	www.wfu.edu
13	Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, Ga.	www.www.cau.edu
14	Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.	www.wesleyan.edu
15	Yale University, New Haven, Conn.	www.yale.edu
16	Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, Ala.	www.www.tuskegee.edu
17	Xavier University, New Orleans, La.	www.www.xula.edu
18	Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, Fla.	www.www.famu.edu
19	University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa.	www.upenn.edu
20	Brown University, Providence, R.I.	www.www.brown.edu
21	North Carolina A&T Univ., Greensboro, N.C.	www.www.ncat.edu
22	Pomona College, Claremont, Calif.	www.pomona.edu
23	Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.	www.princeton.edu
24	Williams College, Williamstown, Mass.	www.williams.edu
25	Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.	www.cornell.edu
26	North Carolina Central University, Durham, N.C,	www.nccu.edu
27	Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, Md.	www.jhu.edu
28	Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio	www.oberlin.edu
29	Emory University, www.emory.edu Atlanta, Ga.	www.emory.edu
30	Dillard University, New Orleans, La. www.dillard.edu New Orleans, La.	www.dillard.edu
31	Duke University, www.duke.edu Winston-Salem, N.C.	www.duke.edu
32	University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, N.C.	www.unc.edu
33	University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, Calif.	www.berkeley.edu
34	Tennessee State University, Nashville, Tenn.	www.tnstate.edu
35	Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.	www.northwestern.edu
36	Jackson State University, Jackson, Miss.	www.jsums.ed
37	Smith College, Northampton, Mass.	www.smith.edu
38	Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tenn.	www.vanderbilt.edu
39	University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Va.	www.virginia.edu
40	Grambling State University, Grambling, La.	www.gram.edu
41	Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.	www.wellesley.edu
42	Morgan State University, Baltimore, Md.	www.morgan.edu
43	Barnard College, New York City, N.Y.	www.barnard.edu
44	Haverford College, Haverford, Pa.	www.haverford.edu
45	Davidson College, Davidson, N.C.	www.davidson.edu
46	New York University, New York, N.Y.	www.nyu.edu
47	Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif.	www.usc.edu
48	University of Maryland, College Park, Md.	www.maryland.edu
49	South Carolina State University, Orangeburg, S.C.	www.scsu.edu
50	Carleton College, Northfield, Minn.	www.carleton.edu