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We last covered Bethune Cookman University which received an average score of 7.3. See the updated leaderboard here Today we travel to the historic Georgia Black Belt to cover Albany State University. Albany State is interesting in that it is the only HBCU I know of that was founded by direct...

We last covered Texas College which received an average score of 5.3. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head to the university founded by icon Mary McLeod Bethune (last Florida school @get these nets). Mary McLeod Bethune was well-known for her passionate pursuit of education and her...

We last covered Morgan State University which received an average score of 8. See the updated leaderboard here Today we check out another small Texas liberal arts HBCU, in this case Texas College of Tyler, TX. Texas college is managed by the Christian Methodist Episcopal (formerly Colored...

We last covered Fisk University which received an average score of 8.9. See the updated leaderboard here Today we cover the final Maryland HBCU, Morgan State University of Baltimore. Morgan State is the largest and most well-known HBCU in Maryland. However, unlike many public HBCUs it did not...

We last covered Coahoma Community College which received an average score of 6. See the updated leaderboard here When one speaks of the most historically elite schools of the HBCUs, Fisk University is at the top of the list. It has much less notoriety than many other HBCUS: it has a small...

We last covered Alcorn State University which received an average score of 8.8. See the updated leaderboard here Coahoma Community College is a HBCU community college in Clarksdale, Mississippi in north central Mississippi towards Memphis. It is a traditional community college in the sense of...

We last covered Southern University of Shreveport which received an average score of 5. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head to Mississippi to celebrate one of the least-known large HBCUs, Alcorn State University. In rural Mississippi, it has long been one of the top 25 largest HBCUs...

We last covered Allen University which received an average score of 6. See the updated leaderboard here Today we check out the largest 2-Year Community College amongst HBCUs, Southern University of Shreveport, often abbreviated SUSLA or sometimes SUSBO (for Southern University...

We last covered Texas Southern University which received an average score of 7. See the updated leaderboard here Allen University is one of two HBCUs in Columbia, SC (Benedict College, to be covered, is the other). Allen, being the smaller of the two, is often overshadowed by Benedict. It was...

We last covered Central State University which received an average score of 5.75. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head to H-Town to review Texas Southern University, the second largest HBCU in Texas after Prairie View A&M. Texas Southern's origin story is similar to that of...

We last covered Florida Memorial University which received an average score of 5. See the updated leaderboard here We previously covered Wilberforce University of Ohio which was once one of the largest HBCUs in the country by enrollment in the late 19th/early 20th century. What is also not...

We last covered Fayetteville State University which received an average score of 7.5. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head to sunny Miami, Florida to profile South Florida's only HBCU: Florida Memorial University. Located in the traditionally Black area of Miami Gardens, FMU probably...

We last covered South Carolina State University which received an average score of 6.3. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head to another North Carolina public HBCU, Fayetteville State University. It is the smallest of the public NC HBCUs but one of the oldest dating to the end of the...

We last covered Wiley College which received an average score of 7. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head back to Orangeburg, SC where we previously covered Claflin University. Its neighboring HBCU is the public HBCU South Carolina State University. SCSU is the largest HBCU in South...

We last covered Southern University and A&M College which received an average score of 8.4. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head to Marshall, TX to look at Wiley College, one of the first HBCUs established west of the Mississppi. Established by the Methodist Episcopal Church in 1873...

We last covered Lincoln University (Missouri) which received an average score of 7. See the updated leaderboard here Today we head to the Boot, to visit the eminent Southern University and Agricultural & Mechanical College. Usually known as just Southern University or SUBR, due to its location...

We last covered Cheyney University of Pennsylvania which received an average score of 6.7. See the updated leaderboard here Missouri has two HBCUs. He first covered Harris-Stowe University of St. Louis and today we will cover the other Lincoln University (MO) in the capital Jefferson City (not...

We last covered Morehouse College which received an average score of 9.2. See the updated leaderboard here Today we cover the oldest HBCU in the nation--Cheyney University of Pennsylvania. Founded in 1937 from the $10,000 donation of a Quaker businessman, Richard Humphreys, who was horrified...

We last covered H. Councill Trenholm State Community College which received an average score of 6. See the updated leaderboard here Morehouse College needs little introduction. Part of the big three of the HBCUs including Spelman College (Day 33) and Howard University (Day 50), Morehouse...

We last covered Virginia University of Lynchburg which received an average score of 6.3. See the updated leaderboard here Montgomery is best known for Alabama State but like Alabama A&M shares Huntsville with J.F. Drake Community College, there is H. Councill Trenholm State Community College...