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Participating Pennington HBCUs

(Historically Black Colleges and Universities)

Hampton University, founded in 1868, is a private institution in Hampton, Va. With 50 bachelor’s degree programs, 25 master’s degree programs and nine doctoral programs, Hampton has an undergraduate enrollment of slightly more than 3,000 students. One of the university’s earliest students was Booker T. Washington. Known as ‘Home By The Sea,” Hampton’s campus has both a waterfront and heavily wooded areas on its 314 acres.

APPLY: https://home.hamptonu.edu/admissions/

Howard University, founded in 1867, is a private institution in Washington, D.C., with more than 120 undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees, the most of any Historically Black College or University in the nation. Known as “the Mecca,” Howard boasts just shy of 9,000 undergraduates and has a host of famous alumni, including Vice President Kamala Harris, Supreme Court Justice Thurgood Marshall and forever Wakandan Chadwick Boseman.

APPLY: https://admission.howard.edu/apply

Morehouse College, founded in 1867, is a private men’s college in Atlanta, Ga., which has produced more black males to earn Rhodes Scholars and more black males to enroll in Harvard Law School than any college in the country. With about 2,300 undergraduates, Morehouse is known for entrepreneurism as well as a long list of famed “Morehouse Men,” Including Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., director Spike Lee and actor Samuel L. Jackson. Current Morehouse President David Thomas is a graduate of Yale University.

APPLY: https://morehouse.edu/admissions/apply/

Morgan State University, founded in 1867, is a public university in Baltimore, Md., with approximately 6,500 undergraduate students. Known as a high research institution, Morgan State has been ranked among the top three universities in the country in the number of black engineers it produces. Four members of the Pro Football Hall of Fame attended Morgan State as did the founder of Black Enterprise, Earl Graves, for whom the business school is named. His son, Butch, now leads Black Enterprise and is Yale’s all-time top basketball scorer.

APPLY: https://www.morgan.edu/applynow

North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, founded in 1891, is a public university in Greensboro, N.C. With more than 11,000 undergraduates, A&T is the largest HBCU in the United States and is the largest producer of black engineers, teachers, nurses, and journalists. Four Aggies helped spur the Civil Rights Movement in 1960 with a lunch counter sit-in at Woolworths. Today there is an on-campus statue to their bravery.

APPLY: https://www.ncat.edu/admissions/apply/index.php

Spelman College, founded in 1881, is a private women’s college in Atlanta, Ga. The school has been ranked No. 1 among liberal arts HBCU institutions and houses the nation’s only museum devoted to art by and about women of the African Diaspora. Despite a small student body of 2,400 students, Spelman has produced an array of famously talented women, including Alice Walker, Marian Wright Edelman, Bernice King and Stacey Abrams.

APPLY: https://www.spelman.edu/admissions/apply-to-spelman.html

Pennington HBCU Partners

Hampton University
Morehouse College
Morgan State University
Hampton University, Morehouse College and Morgan State University offer $5,000/year in university match to up to two Pennington Fellows from each high school graduating class. University match cannot be combined with other grants offered by the university. Terms apply.