List Of Historically Black Colleges And Universities

List of Historically Black Colleges and UniversitiesFounded as "Colored Normal School at ublicFounded as "Lincoln Normal School of comMississippi1871PublicFounded as "Albany Bible and Manual TrainingInstitute"Founded as "Alcorn University" in honor of JamesL. AlcornYeshbcuconnect.comColumbiaSouth Carolina1870PrivateAfrican MethodistEpiscopalFounded as "Payne Institute"Yeshbcuconnect.comAmerican Baptist connect.comArkansas Baptist CollegeLittle rber-Scotia CollegeConcordNorth nedict CollegeColumbiaSouth Carolina1870PrivateFounded as "Benedict Institute"Yeshbcuconnect.comBennett CollegeGreensboroNorth Carolina1873PrivateFounded as "Bennett Seminary"Yeshbcuconnect.comDaytona BeachFlorida1904PrivateFounded as "Daytona Educational and IndustrialTraining School for Negro ginally a branch of Alabama State CollegeYeshbcuconnect.comBluefieldWest Virginia1895PublicFounded as "Bluefield Colored Institute"YesBowieMaryland1865PublicFounded as "Baltimore Normal School"Yeshbcuconnect.comhbcuconnect.comOriginally a department at Wilberforce UniversityYeshbcuconnect.comThe oldest HBCU. Foundedby Quakerphilanthropist Richard Humphreys as"Institute for Colored Yeshbcuconnect.comFounding predecessor institutions: "StraightUniversity" and "New Orleans University"Yeshbcuconnect.comFounded as "Brown Theological TypeAlabama A&M UniversityNormalAlabama1875PublicAlabama State UniversityMontgomeryAlabama1867Albany State UniversityAlbanyGeorgiaAlcorn State UniversityLormanAllen UniversityBethune-Cookman UniversityBishop State CommunityCollegeBluefield State CollegeBowie State UniversityCentral State UniversityCheyney University ofPennsylvaniaClaflin UniversityClark Atlanta UniversityClinton Junior CollegeCoahoma CommunityCollegeConcordia College, AlabamaCoppin State UniversityDelaware State UniversityDenmark Technical a1837PublicOrangeburgSouth Carolina1869PrivateAtlantaGeorgia1865PrivateRock HillSouth Carolina1894PrivateCoahoma DenmarkSouth Carolina1947PublicDillard UniversityNew OrleansLouisiana1869PrivateEdward Waters CollegeJacksonvilleFlorida1866PrivatePage 1HBCUsReligious AffiliationAmerican BaptistChurches USAUnited MethodistChurchUnited MethodistChurchAfrican MethodistEpiscopal ChurchUnited MethodistChurchUnited MethodistChurchAME ZionCommentFederal designation as a historically Black collegeor university was awarded on March 20, 2013 bythe U.S. Education Department.Founded as "Minister’s Institute"Founded as two institutions, Scotia Seminary andBarber Memorial CollegeOriginally two institutions, Clark College andAtlanta UniversityFounded as "Clinton Institute"Founded as "Coahoma County Agricultural HighSchool"Lutheran Church–Missouri SynodUnited Church ofChristand the UnitedMethodist ChurchAME ChurchKnown as "Alabama Lutheran Academy and JuniorCollege" until 1981Founded as "Colored High School"Founded as "The State College for ColoredStudents"Founded as "Denmark Area Trade School"Additionalresources

Elizabeth City StateUniversityFayetteville State UniversityElizabeth CityNorth Carolina1891PublicFayettevilleNorth Carolina1867PublicUnited Church ofChrist[9]Yeshbcuconnect.comFounded as "Howard School"Yeshbcuconnect.comNamed for Clinton Bowen FiskYeshbcuconnect.comFounded as "State Normal College for ColoredStudents"Yeshbcuconnect.comFounded as "Florida Baptist Institute in Live eTallahasseeFlorida1887PublicFlorida Memorial UniversityMiami GardensFlorida1879PrivateFort Valley State UniversityFort ValleyGeorgia1895PublicFounded as "Fort Valley High and IndustrialSchool"Yeshbcuconnect.comGadsden State CommunityCollegeGadsdenAlabama1925PublicFounded as "Alabama School of Trades"Yeshbcuconnect.comGrambling State ct.comHampton .comHarris-Stowe State UniversitySt. LouisMissouri1857PublicYeshbcuconnect.comHinds Community College atUticaUticaMississippi1903PublicFounded as "Utica Junior College"Yeshbcuconnect.comWashingtonDistrict of Columbia1867PrivateFounded as "Howard Normal and TheologicalSchool for the Education of Teachers ateUnited MethodistChurch /United Churchof ChristFounded as "Tillotson Collegiate and svilleAlabama1961PublicFounded as "Huntsville State Vocational TechnicalSchool"Yeshbcuconnect.comJackson State UniversityJacksonMississippi1877PublicFounded as "Natchez Seminary" by the AmericanBaptist Home Mission Society, became public in1942Yeshbcuconnect.comJarvis Christian hnson C. Smith UniversityCharlotteNorth Carolina1867PrivateFounded as "Biddle Memorial Institute"Yeshbcuconnect.comKentucky State UniversityFrankfortKentucky1886PublicFounded as "State Normal School for csville)Tennessee1875PrivateNohbcuconnect.comLane omLangston .comLawson State nnect.comLeMoyne-Owen omChester CountyPennsylvania1854PublicFounded as "LeMoyne Normal and CommercialSchool"[12] (elementary school until 1870)Founded as "Ashmun Institute"YesJefferson CityMissouri1866PublicFounded as "Lincoln Institute"hbcuconnect.comhbcuconnect.comFisk UniversityFlorida A&M UniversityHoward UniversityHuston-Tillotson UniversityInterdenominationalTheological CenterJ. F. Drake State TechnicalCollegeKnoxville CollegeLincoln UniversityLincoln University of MissouriPage 2HBCUsAmerican BaptistChurches USAFounded as "Colored Industrial and AgriculturalSchool"Founded as "Hampton Normal and AgriculturalInstitute"Founded as "St. Louis Normal School" for whites in1857, with Stowe Teachers College begun in 1890for blacks; merged in 1954The DisciplesPresbyterian Church(U.S.A.)United PresbyterianChurch of NorthAmericaChristian MethodistEpiscopal ChurchUnited Church ofChristFounded as "Colored Methodist Episcopal HighSchool"Founded as "Oklahoma Colored Agricultural andNormal University"Yes

Livingstone CollegeSalisburyNorth Carolina1879PrivateMeharry Medical CollegeNashvilleTennessee1876PrivateAME ZionUnited MethodistChurchMiles CollegeFairfieldAlabama1905PrivateCME ChurchMississippi Valley StateUniversityItta BenaMississippi1950PublicMorehouse CollegeAtlantaGeorgia1867PrivateMorehouse School nd1867PublicMorris Brown CollegeAtlantaGeorgia1881PrivateMorris CollegeSumterSouth Carolina1908PrivateNorfolk State UniversityNorfolkVirginia1935PublicGreensboroNorth Carolina1891DurhamNorth CarolinaHuntsvilleAlabamaMorgan State UniversityNorth Carolina Agricultural &Technical State UniversityNorth Carolina CentralUniversityOakwood UniversityFounded as "Zion Wesley Institute"Founded as the Medical Department of CentralTennessee CollegeKnown until 1941 as "Miles Memorial College";named after Bishop William H. nnect.comFounded as "Mississippi Vocational College"Yeshbcuconnect.comFounded as "Augusta Institute"Yeshbcuconnect.comFounded as a part of Morehouse CollegeYeshbcuconnect.comFounded as "Centenary Biblical Institute"Yeshbcuconnect.comNamed after the second Bishop in the AfricanMethodist Episcopal ChurchNohbcuconnect.comYeshbcuconnect.comFounded as "Norfolk Unit of Virginia StateUniversity"Yeshbcuconnect.comPublicFounded as "The Agricultural & MechanicalCollege for the Colored Race"Yeshbcuconnect.com1910PublicFounded as "National Religious Training Schooland Chautauqua"Yeshbcuconnect.com1896PrivateFounded as "Oakwood Industrial School"Yeshbcuconnect.comFounded as "Paine bcuconnect.comOriginally: AmericanBaptist Home MissionSocietyOriginally: MethodistEpiscopalAfrican MethodistEpiscopalBaptist Educationaland MissionaryConventionSeventh-day AdventistUnited MethodistChurch and ChristianMethodist EpiscopalChurchAME atePayne Theological SeminaryWilberforceOhio1856PrivateAfrican MethodistEpiscopal ChurchNamed for William Paul QuinnNamed for Bishop Daniel Payne. Founded as aseminary with Wilberforce University in 1856. Laterbecame Payne Theological Seminary in 1894Philander Smith CollegeLittle RockArkansas1877PrivateUnited MethodistChurchFounded as "Walden Seminary"Yeshbcuconnect.comPrairie View A&M UniversityPrairie ViewTexas1876PublicFounded as "Alta Vista Agriculture & MechanicalCollege for Colored Youth"Yeshbcuconnect.comRust CollegeHolly SpringsMississippi1866PrivateKnown as "Shaw University" until nded as "Georgia State Industrial College forColored Youth"Yeshbcuconnect.comSelma UniversitySelmaAlabama1878PrivateFounded as "Alabama Baptist Normal andTheological School"Yeshbcuconnect.comShaw UniversityRaleighNorth Carolina1865PrivateYeshbcuconnect.comShelton State CommunityCollegeTuscaloosaAlabama1952PublicFounded as "J.P. Shelton Trade School"Yeshbcuconnect.comShorter CollegeLittle RockArkansas1886PrivateTwo-year college; founded as "Bethel University"Yeshbcuconnect.comSimmons CollegeLouisvilleKentucky1869PrivateFounded as Kentucky Normal TechnologicalInstituteYeshbcuconnect.comPaine CollegePaul Quinn CollegeSavannah State UniversityPage 3HBCUsUnited MethodistChurchAlabama StateMissionary BaptistConventionNational BaptistConvention, USA, Inc.African MethodistEpiscopal

OrangeburgSouth Carolina1896PublicFounded as "Colored, Normal, Industrial,Agricultural, and Mechanical College of SouthCarolina"Yeshbcuconnect.comBaton RougeLouisiana1880PublicConceptualized by P. B. S. Pinchback, T. T. Allain,and Henry DemasYeshbcuconnect.comNew OrleansLouisiana1959PublicFounded as a branch unit of Southern University inBaton icPart of the Southern University nded as "Southern Bible Institute"Yeshbcuconnect.comSpelman CollegeAtlantaGeorgia1881PrivateFounded as "Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary"Yeshbcuconnect.comSt. Augustine's UniversityRaleighNorth Carolina1867PrivateYeshbcuconnect.comSt. Philip's CollegeSan AntonioTexas1898PublicOriginally, AmericanBaptist Home MissionSocietyEpiscopal Church(United States)Episcopal ChurchYeshbcuconnect.comStillman nded as "St. Philip's Sewing Class for Girls"Founded as Tuscaloosa Institute, the College wasa concept of Reverend Dr. Charles Allen Stillman,pastor of First Presbyterian Church of TuscaloosaYeshbcuconnect.comTalladega CountyAlabama1867PrivateUnited Church ofChristKnown as "Swayne School" until Founded as "Agricultural and Industrial StateNormal bcuconnect.comHoustonTexas1927PublicFounded as "Texas State University for Negroes"Yeshbcuconnect.comTougaloo CollegeHinds CountyMississippi1869PrivateFounded as "Tougaloo University"Yeshbcuconnect.comTrenholm State TechnicalCollegeMontgomeryAlabama1947PublicFounded as "John M. Patterson Technical eFounded as Tuskegee Institute, Now a NationalHistoric SiteYeshbcuconnect.comPine BluffArkansas1873PublicFounded as "Branch Normal College"Yeshbcuconnect.comPrincess AnneMaryland1886PublicFounded as "Delaware Conference Academy"Yeshbcuconnect.comWashingtonDistrict of Columbia1851PublicFounded as "Miner Normal School"Yeshbcuconnect.comSt. Croix & St.ThomasUnited StatesVirgin Islands1962PublicFounded as "College of the Virgin Islands"Yeshbcuconnect.comVirginia State ct.comVirginia Union UniversityRichmondVirginia1865PrivateAmerican BaptistChurches USAFounded as "Virginia Normal and CollegiateInstitute at Petersburg"Founded as "Wayland Seminary," and merged withRichmond Institute (1865) in BaptistFounded as "Lynchburg Baptist Seminary"Yeshbcuconnect.comDenmarkSouth Carolina1897PrivateEpiscopal ChurchFounded as "Denmark Industrial School"YesInstituteWest Virginia1891PublicFounded as "West Virginia Colored Institute"YesWilberforceOhio1856PrivateNamed for William nnect.comSouth Carolina StateUniversitySouthern University and A&MCollegeSouthern University at NewOrleansSouthern University atShreveportSouthwestern ChristianCollegeTalladega CollegeTennessee State UniversityTexas CollegeTexas Southern UniversityTuskegee UniversityUniversity of Arkansas atPine BluffUniversity of MarylandEastern ShoreUniversity of the District ofColumbiaUniversity of the VirginIslandsVirginia University ofLynchburgVoorhees CollegeWest Virginia State UniversityWilberforce UniversityPage 4HBCUsChurch of ChristChristian MethodistEpiscopal ChurchAmerican MissionaryAssociationOriginally: MethodistEpiscopalAME Church