Graduation Rates of Black Students at HBCUs -- Public & Private by States

The 6-year graduation rates for accredited HBCUs offering bachelors degree programs appear in the following table. The data was obtained from the Website of the IPEDS Data Center

Column (2) contains the total number of HBCUs in each state, followed by the number of private  and public HBCUs; column (3) contains the number of black students enrolled in four year degree programs; and column (4) contains the 6-year graduation rates of the black students. The graduation rates for private and public HBCUs in each state are weighted averages, the weights being the enrollment figures in column for the HBCUs in each state(3). (Note that only 84 of the 86 HBCUs offering bachelors degrees are included in this table. IPEDs did not return graduation rates for Southern University at New Orleans nor for Southwestern Christian College on Tuesday, May 7, 2013.)

States … Private/Public … HBCUs Fall 2011	# HBCUs (2)	Black Enrollment 4-Year Degree Programs (3)	Black  6-Year Grad. Rates (4)
Alabama	9	16838
private	7	8393	31%
Concordia College Selma		687	4%
Miles College		1578	20%
Oakwood University		1681	35%
Selma University		502	57%
Stillman College		994	33%
Talladega College		624	14%
Tuskegee University		2327	42%
public	2	8445	29%
Alabama A & M University		3936	32%
Alabama State University		4509	26%
Arkansas	3	4675
private	2	1808	15%
Arkansas Baptist College		1133	6%
Philander Smith College		675	31%
public	1	2867	23%
University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff		2867	23%
District of Columbia	2	8936
private	1	6808	61%
Howard University		6808	61%
public	1	2128	17%
University of the District of Columbia		2128	17%
Delaware	1	2840
public	1	2840	35%
Delaware State University		2840	35%
Florida	4	15541
private	3	5098	35%
Bethune-Cookman University		2978	38%
Edward Waters College		706	17%
Florida Memorial University		1414	39%
public	1	10443	40%
Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University		10443	40%
Georgia	7	18525
private	4	7760	52%
Clark Atlanta University		2848	41%
Morehouse College		2320	54%
Paine College		832	28%
Spelman College		1760	78%
public	3	10765	35%
Albany State University		3479	41%
Fort Valley State University		3407	33%
Savannah State University		3879	30%
Kentucky	1	1322
public	1	1322	22%
Kentucky State University		1322	22%
Louisiana	5	15040
private	2	3301	45%
Dillard University		1200	24%
Xavier University of Louisiana		2101	57%
public	2	11739	26%
Grambling State University		3857	28%
Southern University and A & M College		5414	25%
Maryland	4	15406
public	4	15406	29%
Bowie State University		3927	40%
Coppin State University		2782	15%
Morgan State University		5784	28%
University of Maryland Eastern Shore		2913	31%
Missouri	2	2625
public	2	2625	18%
Harris-Stowe State University		1319	21%
Lincoln University		1306	15%
Mississippi	5	13070
private	2	1778	38%
Rust College		861	27%
Tougaloo College		917	48%
public	3	11292	36%
Alcorn State University		3077	32%
Jackson State University		6380	41%
Mississippi Valley State University		1835	23%
North Carolina	10	29257
private	5	6288	30%
Bennett College for Women		631	39%
Johnson C Smith University		1235	37%
Livingstone College		1063	30%
Saint Augustines College		1457	22%
Shaw University		1902	28%
public	5	22969	40%
Elizabeth City State University		2029	45%
Fayetteville State University		3463	31%
North Carolina A & T State University		7934	41%
North Carolina Central University		5148	39%
Winston-Salem State University		4395	42%
Ohio	2	2893
private	1	563	30%
Wilberforce University		563	30%
public	1	2330	23%
Central State University		2330	23%
Oklahoma	1	1980
public	1	1980	12%
Langston University		1980	12%
Pennsylvania	2	2434
public	2	2434	33%
Cheyney University of Pennsylvania		1032	24%
Lincoln University of Pennsylvania		1402	40%
South Carolina	6	10625
private	5	7077	29%
Allen University		640	10%
Benedict College		3160	26%
Claflin University		1698	38%
Morris College		964	33%
Voorhees College		615	33%
public	1	3548	35%
South Carolina State University		3548	35%
Tennessee	5	8882
private	4	3549	31%
American Baptist College		90	100%
Fisk University		372	46%
Lane College		1999	34%
Le Moyne-Owen College		1088	15%
public	1	5333	35%
Tennessee State University		5333	35%
Texas	8	15333
private	5	3411	16%
Huston-Tillotson University		599	17%
Jarvis Christian College		467	14%
Paul Quinn College		183	4%
Texas College		736	18%
Wiley College		1231	17%
public	2	11922	23%
Prairie View A & M University		5922	34%
Texas Southern University		6000	12%
Virginia	6	16045
private	4	6068	52%
Hampton University		3849	56%
Saint Pauls College		403	21%
Virginia Union University		1293	29%
Virginia University of Lynchburg		523	100%
public	2	9977	35%
Norfolk State University		5568	32%
Virginia State University		4409	39%
Virgin Islands	1	1706	26%
public	1	1706	26%
University of the Virgin Islands		1706	26%
West Virginia	2	528
public	2	528	23%
Bluefield State College		199	30%
West Virginia State University		329	19%
Grand Total	84	201838	34%