HBCU Stats ... Enrollments and 6-Year Graduation Rates

Last update: Friday 8/15/14 @ 9:38 am

Table 2, at the bottom of this note, presents the enrollments and 6-year graduation rates for the 86 HBCUs that offered bachelors degree programs in the Fall 2012 -- which is the most recent semester for which this IPEDS data is available. The overview presented in Table 1 provides a useful context for reviewing the detailed information presented in Table 2. 

Key points to note in Tables 1 and 2 include:

•  Of the 106 colleges and universities officially designated in 2012 as HBCUs, only 86 offered bachelors degree programs. Eleven (11) HBCUs offered associates degrees, two offered medical degrees, one offered religious degrees, and six (6) were not accredited, so IPEDS does not include any data about them.
   
• Although more private HBCUs (46) than public HBCUs (40) offered bachelors programs, 70 percent of the black students were enrolled at public HBCUs, but only 30 percent at private HBCUs ... less than half as many.
   
• The last row of Table 1 refers to the 12 HBCUs having the highest 6-year graduation rates for black students. As the reader will see in Table 2 (below), all 12 were private HBCUs
   
• However these top level private HBCUs only enrolled 10.4 percent of the HBCU community's black students.
   
• The data in Table 2 was extracted from the IPEDS database via its Website on Monday 8/11/14

Table 1. Total Enrollments of Black Students at HBCUs in the Fall 2012 Semester

Components	Black Enrollment	Number of HBCUs	Enrollment Share
Public HBCUs	136,294	40	70.0%
Private HBCUs	58,468	46	30.0%
All HBCUs	194,762	86	100.0%
Private HBCUs -- 12 Highest Grad Rates	20,314	12	10.4%

Table 2. Enrollment and 6-Year Graduation Rates of Black Students at HBCUs in Fall 2012

Historically Black Colleges & Universities (HBCUs)	ST	Type	Black Enrollment Fall 2012	Black 6-Year Grad Rates
Virginia University of Lynchburg	VA	Private	456	82%
Wilberforce University	OH	Private	482	80%
Spelman College	GA	Private	1764	74%
Hampton University	VA	Private	3562	65%
Howard University	DC	Private	6160	63%
American Baptist College	TN	Private	115	56%
Morehouse College	GA	Private	2278	54%
Tougaloo College	MS	Private	936	52%
Fisk University	TN	Private	479	50%
Xavier University of Louisiana	LA	Private	1965	50%
Tuskegee University	AL	Private	2118	48%
Selma University	AL	Private	455	46%
Jackson State University	MS	Public	6167	45%
North Carolina Central University	NC	Public	5350	44%
Elizabeth City State University	NC	Public	1980	43%
North Carolina A & T State University	NC	Public	7480	43%
Virginia State University	VA	Public	4487	43%
Claflin University	SC	Private	1710	42%
Johnson C Smith University	NC	Private	1227	42%
Bethune-Cookman University	FL	Private	2736	41%
Winston-Salem State University	NC	Public	3909	41%
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University	FL	Public	9378	40%
Albany State University	GA	Public	3100	39%
Clark Atlanta University	GA	Private	2373	39%
Florida Memorial University	FL	Private	1281	38%
Lincoln University of Pennsylvania	PA	Public	1324	38%
Bennett College	NC	Private	609	37%
Norfolk State University	VA	Public	5342	37%
Oakwood University	AL	Private	1688	37%
Harris-Stowe State University	MO	Public	1221	36%
Prairie View A & M University	TX	Public	5743	36%
Bowie State University	MD	Public	3803	35%
Delaware State University	DE	Public	2763	35%
Lane College	TN	Private	1512	35%
Tennessee State University	TN	Public	5112	35%
Saint Augustine's University	NC	Private	1385	34%
South Carolina State University	SC	Public	3087	34%
Alabama A & M University	AL	Public	3898	33%
Alcorn State University	MS	Public	2999	33%
Fayetteville State University	NC	Public	3411	33%
Savannah State University	GA	Public	3776	32%
University of Maryland Eastern Shore	MD	Public	2758	32%
Dillard University	LA	Private	1221	31%
Morris College	SC	Private	810	31%
Philander Smith College	AR	Private	603	31%
Rust College	MS	Private	890	31%
Fort Valley State University	GA	Public	3055	30%
Virginia Union University	VA	Private	1292	30%
Benedict College	SC	Private	2878	29%
Morgan State University	MD	Public	5652	28%
Southern University and A & M College	LA	Public	4916	28%
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff	AR	Public	2549	28%
University of the Virgin Islands	VI	Public	1651	28%
Central State University	OH	Public	2011	27%
Grambling State University	LA	Public	3880	27%
Southwestern Christian College	TX	Private	181	27%
Voorhees College	SC	Private	610	27%
Alabama State University	AL	Public	4863	26%
Stillman College	AL	Private	926	26%
Wiley College	TX	Private	1186	26%
Allen University	SC	Private	666	25%
Huston-Tillotson University	TX	Private	630	25%
Talladega College	AL	Private	1122	25%
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania	PA	Public	1126	23%
Edward Waters College	FL	Private	869	23%
Livingstone College	NC	Private	1022	23%
Mississippi Valley State University	MS	Public	1819	23%
Shaw University	NC	Private	1733	23%
Paine College	GA	Private	751	22%
Lincoln University	MO	Public	1047	18%
Southern University at New Orleans	LA	Public	1827	18%
Texas College	TX	Private	734	18%
Saint Pauls College	VA	Private	105	17%
Coppin State University	MD	Public	2591	16%
West Virginia State University	WV	Public	277	16%
Langston University	OK	Public	1770	15%
Miles College	AL	Private	1631	14%
University of the District of Columbia	DC	Public	2736	14%
Bluefield State College	WV	Public	194	13%
Jarvis Christian College	TX	Private	506	13%
Kentucky State University	KY	Public	1195	13%
Texas Southern University	TX	Public	6047	12%
Arkansas Baptist College	AR	Private	1007	8%
Concordia College Alabama	AL	Private	569	8%
Le Moyne-Owen College	TN	Private	1069	8%
Paul Quinn College	TX	Private	166	1%