{"id":12086,"date":"2024-10-02T12:01:20","date_gmt":"2024-10-02T16:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/%year%\/%monthnum%\/%day%\/a-look-at-historically-black-colleges-and-universities-as-howard-turns-150\/"},"modified":"2024-10-03T10:36:52","modified_gmt":"2024-10-03T14:36:52","slug":"a-look-at-historically-black-colleges-and-universities-in-the-u-s","status":"publish","type":"short-read","link":"https:\/\/alpha.pewresearch.org\/pewresearch-org\/short-reads\/2024\/10\/02\/a-look-at-historically-black-colleges-and-universities-in-the-u-s\/","title":{"rendered":"A look at historically Black colleges and universities in the U.S."},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Students celebrate at North Carolina Central University’s graduation ceremony on May 4, 2024, in Durham. (DeAndres Royal\/North Carolina Central University via Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The nomination of Howard University graduate Kamala Harris for president has brought new attention to historically Black colleges and universities<\/a>, or HBCUs, in the United States.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The oldest HBCUs have been in existence for over 150 years, and HBCUs continue to play an important role in the U.S. higher education landscape. As of fall 2022 \u2013 the latest semester with available data \u2013 there were 99 HBCUs nationwide, and they collectively enrolled just under 290,000 students, according to the National Center for Education Statistics<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n

How we did this<\/div>