Some HBCUs struggle with rock-bottom graduation rates:
"In analyzing federal data for an in-depth examination of the nation’s historically black colleges and universities, the AJC found that the six-year graduation rates at 20 schools were 20 percent or lower in 2015.
This means that four of five beginning freshmen at those schools didn’t earn a degree within six years.
Coming Thursday: The AJC publishes HBCUs: A Threatened Heritage. The special three-part series will examine the problems many of the schools face, the unique role they play in students’ lives, and the perils that lie ahead.
A handful of HBCUs are graduating more than 50 percent of new freshmen within six years. Spelman College in Atlanta, for example, led all HBCUs, with a rate of 76 percent.
Others, however, are struggling. Here’s a sampling:
| School and 6-year graduation rate | 2010 | 2015 |
|---|
| Arkansas Baptist College | 2% | 5% |
| Virginia University of Lynchburg | 5% | 5% |
| Harris-Stowe State University | 13% | 7% |
| Concordia College Alabama | 4% | 10% |
| Southwestern Christian College | 10% | 10% |
| Texas College | 6% | 13% |
| Paul Quinn College | 9% | 13% |
| Le Moyne-Owen College | 17% | 13% |
| Southern University New Orleans | 4% | 14% |
| Other selected colleges, for comparison | 2010 | 2015 |
| University of Georgia | 80% | 85% |
| Georgia State University | 48% | 58% |
| Spelman College | 70% | 76% |
| Morehouse College | 57% | 51% |
| Clark Atlanta University | 43% | 38% |
| U.S. average, all colleges | 48% | 59% |
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