Tuskegee Tops 'Best Historically Black Colleges & Universities' List

Tuskegee University was praised for its “Rich Tradition of Service” when the online publication College Choice named the historic university originally led and founded by the great Booker T. Washington as its best historically black college or university (HBCU) in 2015. The ranking is “an affirmation of both Tuskegee’s great tradition and its great trajectory,” says current Tuskegee University leader Brian L. Johnson.

Tuskegee is located in Tuskegee, Alabama, just outside the Alabama State Capitol in Montgomery. Tuskegee’s “reputation, curriculum and salary potential for its graduates” was noted topping the list of the country’s best HBCUs featuring a total of 25 historically black colleges. The independent and state-related institution of higher education enrolls more than 3,000 students, and its “mission has always been service to people, not education for its own sake.”

“Over the past 125 years since it was founded by Booker T. Washington in 1881,” according to the university’s website, “Tuskegee University has become one of our nation’s most outstanding institutions of higher learning. While it focuses on helping to develop human resources primarily within the African American community, it is open to all.”

According to Montgomery Advertiser, “The rankings were compiled using data from U.S. News & World Report, the National Center for Education Statistics and PayScale.com.”

In addition, writes Brad Harper, “The only other Alabama institution on the list was Alabama A&M University at No. 24.”

Check out the entire list below:

College Choice’s ‘2015 Best Historically Black Colleges & Universities’:

Rank	University	Location
25	Fayetteville State University	Fayetteville, NC
24	Alabama A&M University	Normal, AL
23	Norfolk State University	Norfolk, VA
22	Coppin State University	Baltimore, MD
21	Fisk University	Nashville, TN
20	Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University	Tallahassee, FL
19	Bowie State University	Bowie, MD
18	Langston University	Langston, OK
17	Spelman College	Atlanta, GA
16	Tennessee State University	Nashville, TN
15	North Carolina A&T State University	Greensboro, NC
14	Prairie View A&M University	Prairie View, TX
13	Philander Smith College	Little Rock, AR
12	Virginia State University	Petersburg, VA
11	Delaware State University	Dover, DE
10	Xavier University of Louisiana	New Orleans, LA
09	North Carolina Central University	Durham, NC
08	Elizabeth City State University	Elizabeth City, NC
07	Howard University	Washington, DC
06	Morehouse College	Atlanta, GA
05	Winston-Salem State University	Winston-Salem, NC
04	University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff	Pine Bluff, AR
03	Bethune-Cookman University	Daytona Beach, FL
02	Hampton University	Hampton, VA
01	Tuskegee University	Tuskegee, AL