Black Students Are 40% More Likely to Earn Degrees at HBCUs—Here's Why

[IM2]

Most mainstream colleges don’t yet offer degrees in carjacking and shoplifting.

Nor do they offer degrees in trailer construction and meth production.

 

[JustAGuy1]

Here we see an example of white racism in 2024.

The black professors at HBCUS expect and demand more from those black students than white teachers at PWUS do.

You still chasing blondes? What is your degree in, "Black Studies"?

 

[Ringo]

USA, Langston University, where the 4-year graduation success rate has recently dropped to 9%.
You can see that there is a math lecture going on

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

USA, Langston University, where the 4-year graduation success rate has recently dropped to 9%.
You can see that there is a math lecture going on

Looks like a room full of future airline pilots and air traffic controllers.

 

[IM2]

More dumb white racism.

 

[ice man]

The black professors at HBCUS expect and demand more from those black students than white teachers at PWUS do.

Got any evidence for that?

 

[IM2]

Got any evidence for that?

I don't communicate with bigots whose avatar is a confederate flag.

 

[ice man]

I don't communicate with bigots whose avatar is a confederate flag.

You don't communicate because you have no answer.

 

[MarathonMike]

I almost went to an HBCU.

Let me guess, Al Sharpton made you a better offer to work for him.

 

[DGS49]

And students at Harvard are less likely to fail classes than those at other universities. Why is that?

Because the "bad" students are weeded out in the application process? In fact, virtually all students at Harvard (and similar schools) graduate with some sort of "honors."

For historical perspective, prior to 1970, the top colleges in the U.S. - and especially the Ivy's - had significant academic attrition. Their classes actually planned for it. The graduating class was 60-70% of the size of the Freshman class.

But because of the Vietnam War, all that changed. No Prof wanted to fail a student, cause him to be drafted and sent to Vietnam. So attrition quickly became a thing of the past. Now there is basically no academic attrition. Everybody gets a trophy.

 

[IM2]

Because the "bad" students are weeded out in the application process? In fact, virtually all students at Harvard (and similar schools) graduate with some sort of "honors."

For historical perspective, prior to 1970, the top colleges in the U.S. - and especially the Ivy's - had significant academic attrition. Their classes actually planned for it. The graduating class was 60-70% of the size of the Freshman class.

But because of the Vietnam War, all that changed. No Prof wanted to fail a student, cause him to be drafted and sent to Vietnam. So attrition quickly became a thing of the past. Now there is basically no academic attrition. Everybody gets a trophy.

BS.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

HBCUs are known for their commitments to social justice, supportive faculty, strong alumni communities—and the results they get.

Black students are thriving at HBCUs, and a recent study proves it. According to a report by Brown University, Black students are 40% more likely to earn their bachelor’s degrees at HBCUs than Black students at other schools. A 2024 White House fact sheet further notes that HBCUs are responsible for producing a large percentage of all Black professionals in engineering (40%), teaching (50%), medicine (70%), and judicial careers (80%).

According to UNCF, ‘the numbers don’t lie.’ While HBCUs represent only 3% of American colleges and universities and enroll just about 10% of the country’s Black population, these institutions produce nearly 20% of all Black American graduates. And after a few application surges, most notably following the death of George Floyd and again after the Supreme Court’s June 2023 decision to remove college and university race considerations in admissions, there’s been curiosity about the special sauce for Black student success at HBCUs.

Though there’s no catchall, Kindred by Parents spoke to an HBCU legacy family, an alumnus, and an administrator at a university that ranks as a top producer of Black American doctors to discover what magic historically Black colleges and universities possess.

Kyleigh Reese Hankton, an alumna and current student at Alcorn State University, said her mother, Dionne Atley-McCurry, also an alumna of Alcorn, gave her a choice of 107 institutions of higher education—the exact number of HBCU-designated schools—to choose from when she was considering colleges.

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Excellent job, keep up the good work.

As a black student you can't beat the life lessons and enrichment you are going to receive at an HBCU.

The white kids who have attended these colleges and universities also cherish the experience they had at these institutions of higher learning.

At some point it would be great if we stopped with identity politics in America. I know it will never happen.

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

I almost went to an HBCU.

Was your major going to be, how to bold every other word?

 

[AzogtheDefiler]

You sound like an idiot, my wife graduated from an HBCU and she has graduates from UT, UofM, etc. that works for her.

What does she do?

 

[Unkotare]

Because the "bad" students are weeded out in the application process? ...

Guess again.

 

[Rocko]

I almost went to an HBCU.

That doesn’t count for much, does it?

 

[IM2]

That doesn’t count for much, does it?

It counts as much as going to an HWCU.

 

[MarathonMike]

I worked with a Black fella who graduated with a Masters in Physics from Tuskegee. One of the nicest guys I've ever met. Dumb as a rock. He was my tester and couldn't understand a simple assembly language program I had written. I spent hours trying to explain it to him. He never got it. Yes I know it's a "cherry pick", I thought I'd do one for a change just to annoy IM2.

 

[RoshawnMarkwees]

I worked with a Black fella who graduated with a Masters in Physics from Tuskegee. One of the nicest guys I've ever met. Dumb as a rock. He was my tester and couldn't understand a simple assembly language program I had written. I spent hours trying to explain it to him. He never got it. Yes I know it's a "cherry pick", I thought I'd do one for a change just to annoy IM2.

But he was fast!