These historically Black colleges and universities were compared only with one another for these rankings. To be on the list, a school must be currently designated by the U.S. Department of Education as an HBCU. To qualify for the U.S. News rankings, an HBCU also must be an ...
Department of Education provided a total of $1.6 billion in debt relief to 45 HBCUs, with an additional $5 billion given a year later through the Higher Education Emergency Relief Fund programs. The difference now, however, is HBCUs have to use their own funding to make t...