Answered by Professor X
BlackEnterprise/DayStar just completed a study in which they ranked what they term "The Top 50 Colleges and Universities for African-Americans." This excellent study resulted in a number of lists for national liberal arts colleges, national universities, regional liberal arts colleges, regional universities, and HBCUs. You can find their entire report at the website cited below. I urge you to visit, scroll down on the site, and see their various ranking lists. Here are the top 20 in their overall top 50 ranking, which as you will note, includes non-HBCUs, but most of their top ten are indeed HBCUs. 1 Spelman College (Atlanta, GA) 2 Morehouse College (Atlanta, GA) 3 Florida A&M Univ. (Tallahassee, FL) 4 Clark Atlanta Univ. (Atlanta, GA) 5 Howard Univ. (Washington, DC) 6 Xavier University (New Orleans, LA) 7 Hampton Univ. (Hampton, VA) 8 Tuskegee Univ. (Tuskegee, AL) 9 N. Carolina A&T Univ. (Greensboro, NC) 10 Stanford Univ. (Palo Alto, CA) 11 Georgetown Univ. Washington, DC) 12 Oberlin College (Oberlin, OH) 13 Swarthmore College (Swarthmore, PA) 14 Vassar College (Poughkeepsie, NY) 15 Columbia Univ. (New York, NY) 16 Emory University (Atlanta, GA) 17 Amherst College (Amherst, MA) 18 Johnson C. Smith Univ. (Charlotte, NC) 19 Univ. of N. Carolina (Chapel Hill, NC) 20 Duke University (Durham, NC) I'm not assuming you'd prefer an HBCU -- I am just noting that Clark Atlanta is highly ranked, and Norfolk State did not make the top 50 list. Best wishes, whichever school you choose! :)