Located in Norfolk, Virginia, Norfolk State University is a public HBCU and Thurgood Marshall College Fund member offering undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral programs at an affordable level, advancing access, leadership, learning, service, and community impact today.

Located in Greensboro, North Carolina, North Carolina A&T State University is a major public HBCU known for large enrollment, nationally ranked engineering programs, and significant partnerships, including work with NASA, for students, alumni, and communities today.

Located in Durham, North Carolina, North Carolina Central University offers broad undergraduate and graduate programs and is recognized as a prominent public HBCU with strong educational opportunity in North Carolina, for students, alumni, and communities today.

Located in Huntsville, Alabama, Oakwood University is a private HBCU known for medical career preparation, an award-winning choir, championship athletics, and alumni in music, civil rights, politics, and ministry, advancing access, leadership, and community impact today.

Located in Augusta, Georgia, Paine College is a small United Methodist-affiliated HBCU focused on liberal arts education, ethical and spiritual values, and a notable alumni legacy in scholarship and literature, for students, alumni, and communities today.

Located in Dallas, Texas, Paul Quinn College is Texas’s oldest HBCU, founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church and committed to affordable liberal arts education grounded in Christian principles, advancing access, leadership, and community impact today.

Located in Little Rock, Arkansas, Philander Smith College was founded to educate newly freed people and offers undergraduate programs in business, education, social sciences, arts, and physical sciences, advancing access, leadership, learning, and community impact today.

Located in Prairie View, Texas, Prairie View A&M University carries deep HBCU traditions, offers varied degrees, and is recognized as one of Texas’s constitutionally designated first-class institutions, advancing access, leadership, learning, service, and community impact today.

Located in Holly Springs, Mississippi, Rust College is among the HBCUs founded before 1868 that remain operating, offering associate and bachelor’s degrees through a fast-paced eight-week semester model, advancing access, leadership, learning, and community impact today.

Located in Savannah, Georgia, Savannah State University is Georgia’s oldest HBCU, located on more than 173 acres and known for growth, research centers, and expanding alumni engagement, advancing access, leadership, learning, service, and community impact today.

Located in Selma, Alabama, Selma University was founded by the Baptist Theological School and emphasizes religious education, spiritual leadership, and degrees in religion and Bible theology, advancing access, leadership, learning, service, opportunity, and community impact today.

Located in Raleigh, North Carolina, Shaw University is the oldest HBCU in the South, founded after the Civil War to educate a new generation of formerly enslaved people, advancing access, leadership, learning, and community impact today.