Most Successful, Colleges for Graduating Low-Income Black Students

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By Ivory A. Toldson (The Root)

This is the list of the 23 schools, of more than 2,100 evaluated, that fit my criteria. I call them the 50-50 club for serving more than 50 percent Pell-eligible students and graduating more than 50 percent of their black students:

Institution, State: (Black Undergraduate Population): Percent Black

Talladega College, Ala.*: (867): 85 percent
Agnes Scott College, Ga.: (309): 32 percent
Apex School of Theology, N.C.: (609): 81 percent
University of California-Riverside, Calif.: (1,170): 5 percent
University of California-Santa Cruz, Calif.: (335): 2 percent
William Carey University, Miss.: (1,025): 30 percent
Adventist University of Health Sciences, Fla.: (530): 17 percent
Georgia State University, Ga.: (11,343): 35 percent
Shorter University-College of Adult & Professional Programs, Ga.: (1,077): 66 percent
William Peace University, N.C.: (358): 36 percent
Berea College, Ky.: (250): 14 percent
Bethune-Cookman University, Fla.*: (3,071): 78 percent
Morehouse College, Ga.*: (2,411): 96 percent
University of California-Merced, Calif.: (372): 6 percent
CUNY Hunter College, N.Y.: (2,273): 11 percent
Johnson & Wales University-North Miami, Fla.: (531): 24 percent
Fisk University, Tenn.*: (513): 84 percent
CUNY Brooklyn College, N.Y.: (4,295): 25 percent
Tougaloo College, Miss.*: (1,026): 97 percent
Union Institute & University, Ohio: (399): 22 percent
Everglades University, Fla.: (256): 16 percent
Saint Peter’s University, N.J.: (612): 21 percent
Bluefield College, Va.: (254): 23 percent

* after state name denotes an HBCU

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