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  1. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 78: Alcorn State University

    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...
  2. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 77: Southern University of Shreveport

    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...
  3. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 76: Allen 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...
  4. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 75: Texas Southern University

    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...
  5. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 74: Central State University (OH)

    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...
  6. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 73: Florida Memorial University

    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...
  7. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 72: Fayetteville State University

    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...
  8. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 71: South Carolina State University

    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...
  9. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 70: Wiley College

    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...
  10. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 69: Southern University and A&M College

    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...
  11. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 68: Lincoln University (Missouri)

    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...
  12. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 67: Cheyney University of Pennsylvania

    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...
  13. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 66: Morehouse College

    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...
  14. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 65: H. Councill Trenholm State Community College

    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...
  15. DrBanneker

    Spin: Educated Black women largely end up with the same kind of men (Black or White)

    I really pondered throwing this data out for a while. I am not into gender warring and I figured this may end up as that. However, I guess the Eboni Williams thread got me to go ahead and do it. To be clear: This is not an anti-IR thread. If someone is happy with a White man or woman, good for...
  16. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 64: Virginia University of Lynchburg

    We last covered Tennessee State University which received an average score of 8.5. See the updated leaderboard here Virginia University of Lynchburg is a small Christian HBCU in Lynchburg, VA. Originally started as a Baptist seminary in 1888 (the Lynchburg Baptist Seminary and later the...
  17. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU: HBCU Major Best Buys

    With all the talk at @get these nets thread on HBCU gender gaps relating to the "worth" or not of college for boys, I thought I might throw out some info I have been collecting. Generally, the highest paying HBCUs are the top four (Howard, Hampton, Morehouse, Spelman) and the engineering focused...
  18. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 63: Tennessee State University

    We last covered Livingstone College which received an average score of 6. See the updated leaderboard here Now we had back to Nashville to cover Tennessee State University (TSU). The largest HBCU in Nashville as well as Tennessee, TSU was actually the last HBCU established in the Nashville...
  19. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 62: Livingstone College

    We last covered Arkansas Baptist College which received an average score of 5.5. See the updated leaderboard here Livingstone College has a unique history in being one of the first colleges established by the AME Zion Church. The reasons for its founding were ones of self-determination. As has...
  20. DrBanneker

    Rate this HBCU Day 61: Arkansas Baptist College

    We last covered Savannah State University which received an average score of 5.5. See the updated leaderboard here We now look at the last HBCU in Arkansas we have not covered, Arkansas Baptist College. A small HBCU, it was founded in 1884 by the Black Baptists of Arkansas as the Minister's...
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