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BLACK ENTERPRISE - Oct. 2004
HEADLINE: 50 BEST COLLEGES FOR AFRICAN AMERICANS;

CRUNCHING THE NUMBERS

BYLINE: By Tanisha A. Sykes, Additional reporting by Stephanie Young
BODY: A total of 482 colleges and universities were selected based on the following criteria:

1 Accredited four-year colleges or universities with an African American student enrollment of at least 3%.

2 Colleges or universities that did not meet criteria one, but are large or well-known (e.g., the University of Southern California). The goal was to be as inclusive as possible while targeting schools that would be of interest to black students.

We surveyed 1,855 African American higher education professionals with titles such as president, chancellor, and provost, for their assessments of the social and educational environments of the nation's colleges and universities for African American students. Each school received a rating from 2 (strongly recommended) to -2 (strongly not recommended) with O being neutral.

> Schools were categorized according to the college classification protocol developed by U.S. News and World Report, which is a modified version of the protocol developed by the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching. Survey respondents were asked to rate only schools that they were knowledgeable about.

The BE top colleges list was developed by Thomas A. LaVeist, Ph.D., professor of health policy, management, and sociology at Johns Hopkins University, and CEO of DayStar Research. LaVeist is the author of DayStar Guide to Colleges for African Americans (Kaplan/Simon & Schuster; $ 20) and co-author of 8 Steps to Help Black Families Pay for College (Princeton Review; $ 13). The list, based on the DayStar rating, was calculated by developing a regression-based, weighted, multiplicative index combining four variables:
1 The school's five-year graduation rate for African Americans
2 The school's percentage of African American undergraduate students
3 The school's average survey score for the school's academic environment
4 The school's average survey score for the school's social environment >
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> 2004 2003 Colleges & Universities Admissions

> Rank Rank City/State Phone Number

> 1 1 Morehouse College, Atlanta, GA (800) 851-1254

> 2 3 Spelman College, Atlanta, GA (800) 982-2411

> 3 2 Hampton University, Hampton, VA (800) 624-3328

> 4 4 Howard University, Washington, DC (202) 806-2763

> 5 5 Xavier University, New Orleans, LA (877) XAVIERU

> 6 6 Florida A&M University, Tallahassee, FL (850) 599-3000

> 7 7 Stanford University, Stanford, CA (650) 723-2091

> 8 8 Columbia University, New York, NY (212) 854-2522

> 9 11 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA (617) 495-1551

> 10 12 Duke University, Durham, NC (919) 684-3214

> 11 9 Georgetown University, Washington, DC (202) 687-3600

> 12 10 Clark Atlanta University, Atlanta, GA (800) 688-3228

> 13 13 Berea College, Berea, KY (800) 326-5948

> 14 15 Univ. of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC (919) 966-3621

> 15 16 Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH (800) 622-OBIE

> 16 14 Williams College, Williamstown, MA (413) 597-2211

> 17 19 NC A&T State University, Greensboro, NC (800) 443-8964

> 18 17 Emory University, Atlanta, GA (800) 727-6036

> 19 18 Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT (860) 685-3000

> 20 22 Fisk University, Nashville, TN (800) 433-FISK

> 21 20 University of Maryland, College Park, MD (800) 422-5867

> 22 21 Tuskegee University, Tuskegee, AL (800) 622-6531

> 23 23 University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (215) 898-7507

> 24 25 Cornell Univ.-Endowed Colleges, Ithaca, NY (607) 255-5241

> 25 27 University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (734) 764-7433

> 26 24 George Washington Univ., Washington, DC (800) 447-3765

> 27 30 Amherst College, Amherst, MA (413) 542-2328

> 28 29 Mount Holyoke College, South Hadley, MA (413) 538-2023

> 29 26 Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (781) 283-2270

> 30 28 Univ. of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (213) 740-1111

> 31 31 Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (336) 758-5255

> 32 32 New York University, New York, NY (212) 998-4500

> 33 36 Johnson C. Smith University, Charlotte, NC (800) 782-7303

> 34 35 Morgan State University, Baltimore, MD (443) 885-3000

> 35 38 Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD (410) 516-8171

> 36 33 Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA (800) 667-3110

> 37 34 Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL (850) 644-6200

> 38 40 Yale University, New Haven, CT (203) 432-9300

> 39 39 Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY (800) 827-7270

> 40 37 Southern Univ. A&M College, Baton Rouge, LA (225) 771-2430

> 41 42 Brown University, Providence, RI (401) 863-2378

> 42 43 Dillard University, New Orleans, LA (800) 216-6637

> 43 44 Tennessee State University, Nashville, TN (615) 963-5101

> 44 45 Ohio State University, Columbus, OH (614) 292-3980

> 45 41 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (888) 340-2222

> 46 48 Bethune-Cookman College, Daytona Beach, FL (800) 448-0228

> 47 46 Florida International University, Miami, FL (305) 348-2363

> 48 49 Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA (617) 253-4791

> 49 47 California State University, Los Angeles, CA (323) 343-3901

> 50 - University of Chicago, Chicago, IL (773) 702-8650

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By Celebrian23 (Celebrian23) on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 07:03 pm: Edit

thanks so much for this, it's very helpful

By Carolyn (Carolyn) on Friday, October 01, 2004 - 10:06 pm: Edit

Thank you for posting this. It was very interesting to see that so many of the schools on the list were historically black colleges and universities like Howard and Morehouse.

By Iska (Iska) on Saturday, October 02, 2004 - 01:42 pm: Edit

Check September 24, 12:35 A.M. posting on the Williams board as it pertains to race issues at Williams:

http://www.collegeconfidential.com/cgi-bin/discus/show.cgi?4/36508