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More of the past HBCUS.... Friendship College Rock Hill, South Carolina 1891-1981 Friendship College, originally the Friendship Normal and Industrial Institute, was established in 1891 after conferences by Black Baptists in York and Chester counties. It originally combined an elementary...

Mary Holmes College West Point, Mississippi 1892-2005 Mary Holmes College was a two-year coed college in West Point, Mississippi. It was founded by a White Presbyterian Minister - Rev. Mead Holmes and his daughter Mary Emilie Holmes as an institute for Black women to train them in homemaking...

The main series is done but as I stated before there were a few more posts I wanted to do on the HBCUs that have gone out of existence. There are a significant number though almost all were small private schools except for some community colleges in Alabama. It looks like Alabama lost the most...

We last covered Bishop State Community College which received an average score of 6. See the updated leaderboard here Today we cover the final school that will receive a standalone Rate this HBCU thread, and this school needs no introduction. Tuskegee University is one of the most storied...

We last covered Benedict College which received an average score of 7.3. See the updated leaderboard here Today we cover the final community college HBCU, Bishop State Community College (BSCC) in Mobile, AL. BSCC was established in 1927 as the Mobile branch of Alabama State University to offer...

We last covered Southern University at New Orleans which received an average score of 6.3. See the updated leaderboard here We turn back to Columbia, South Carolina, where we previously covered Allen University, to look at the last school in South Carolina in the series, Benedict College...

We last covered Shaw University which received an average score of 8.4. See the updated leaderboard here Today we look at our last school in Louisiana, the third undergraduate institution in the Southern University System, Southern University at New Orleans, known as SUNO. SUNO has an...

We last covered Jarvis Christian University which received an average score of 6. See the updated leaderboard here Today we start the countdown to the final five HBCUs that will be covered in the series. We go to one of the most impactful, yet least chronicled, small HBCUs, Shaw University of...

This is a special edition of Rate this HBCU covering the newly re-accredited Morris Brown College. There will not be a traditional poll since initial progress is still being made but rather an opinion poll about where you think MBC's future lies. Morris Brown was the first Black founded and run...

We last covered North Carolina Central University which received an average score of 7.9. See the updated leaderboard here Today we check out the small Christian University, Jarvis Christian University in Hawkins, Texas, about thirty minutes north of Tyler where the HBCU Texas College is...

We last covered Talladega College which received an average score of 7. See the updated leaderboard here We will now cover the final large public HBCU, North Carolina Central University (NCCU). The second largest HBCU in North Carolina behind North Carolina A&T, NCCU was one of the last HBCUs...

We last covered Talladega College which received an average score of 7. See the updated leaderboard here We will now cover the final large public HBCU, North Carolina Central University (NCCU). The second largest HBCU in North Carolina behind North Carolina A&T, NCCU was one of the last HBCUs...

We last covered Lawson State Community College which received an average score of 5.5. See the updated leaderboard here Talladega College has a long history as the first private HBCU in Alabama. For many years, it was considered one of the premier liberal arts HBCUs second only to schools such...

We last covered Morris College which received an average score of 5.7. See the updated leaderboard here Today we cover another HBCU vocational/community college, Lawson State Community College of Birmingham. It offers liberal arts and vocational courses including manufacturing...

We last covered Albany State University which received an average score of 6.7. See the updated leaderboard here Today, we head to Sumter, SC east of Columbia to visit Morris College, a small liberal arts HBCU in South Carolina. Originally started as a Baptist school that contained a grade...

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...