[ HBCUs | List
of Black Colleges ]
There are currently 110 historically black colleges
and universities (HBCU) in the U.S. including public and private
institutions as well as 2 and 4 year schools and community
colleges. In 1965 the Higher
Education Act refers to historically black colleges and
universities (HBCU) as "...any historically black college
or university that was established prior to 1964, whose principal
mission was, and is, the education of black Americans, and
that is accredited by a nationally recognized accrediting
agency or association determined by the Secretary [of Education]
to be a reliable authority as to the quality of training offered
or is, according to such an agency or association, making
reasonable progress toward accreditation."
While other schools, colleges and universities
have large bodies of African American students if they were
founded after the Higher Education Act and Brown
v. Board of Education ruling by the US Supreme Court,
which outlawed racial segregation, they cannot be historically
black colleges or universities.
See a list of HBCU schools.
