List of Historically Black Colleges and Universities Regionally Additional School City State Founded Type Religious Affiliation Comment accredited resources Alabama A&M University Normal Alabama 1875 Public Founded as "Colored Normal School at Huntsville" Yes hbcuconnect.com Alabama State University Montgomery Alabama 1867 Public Founded as "Lincoln Normal School of Marion" Yes hbcuconnect.com Albany Georgia 1903 Public Founded as "Albany Bible and Manual Training Yes Albany State University Institute" hbcuconnect.com Founded as "Alcorn University" in honor of James Alcorn State University Lorman Mississippi 1871 Public L. Alcorn Yes hbcuconnect.com African Methodist Allen University Columbia South Carolina 1870 Private Episcopal Founded as "Payne Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com Federal designation as a historically Black college American Baptist College Nashville Tennessee 1924 Private Baptist or university was awarded on March 20, 2013 by Yes hbcuconnect.com the U.S. Education Department. Arkansas Baptist College Little Rock Arkansas 1884 Private Baptist Founded as "Minister’s Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com Founded as two institutions, Scotia Seminary and Barber-Scotia College Concord North Carolina 1867 Private Presbyterian Barber Memorial College No hbcuconnect.com American Baptist Benedict College Columbia South Carolina 1870 Private Churches USA Founded as "Benedict Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com United Methodist Bennett College Greensboro North Carolina 1873 Private Church Founded as "Bennett Seminary" Yes hbcuconnect.com United Methodist Founded as "Daytona Educational and Industrial Bethune-Cookman University Daytona Beach Florida 1904 Private Church Training School for Negro Girls" Yes hbcuconnect.com Bishop State Community Mobile Alabama 1927 Public Originally a branch of Alabama State College Yes hbcuconnect.com College Bluefield State College Bluefield West Virginia 1895 Public Founded as "Bluefield Colored Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com Bowie State University Bowie Maryland 1865 Public Founded as "Baltimore Normal School" Yes hbcuconnect.com African Methodist Central State University Wilberforce Ohio 1887 Public Episcopal Church Originally a department at Wilberforce University Yes hbcuconnect.com Cheyney University of The oldest HBCU. Founded Cheyney Pennsylvania 1837 Public by Quakerphilanthropist Richard Humphreys as Yes hbcuconnect.com Pennsylvania "Institute for Colored Youth" United Methodist Claflin University Orangeburg South Carolina 1869 Private Church Yes hbcuconnect.com United Methodist Originally two institutions, Clark College and Clark Atlanta University Atlanta Georgia 1865 Private Church Atlanta University Yes hbcuconnect.com Clinton Junior College Rock Hill South Carolina 1894 Private AME Zion Founded as "Clinton Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com Coahoma Community Founded as "Coahoma County Agricultural High Coahoma County Mississippi 1924 Public Yes hbcuconnect.com College School" Lutheran Church– Known as "Alabama Lutheran Academy and Junior Concordia College, Alabama Selma Alabama 1922 Private Missouri Synod College" until 1981 Yes hbcuconnect.com Coppin State University Baltimore Maryland 1900 Public Founded as "Colored High School" Yes hbcuconnect.com Founded as "The State College for Colored Delaware State University Dover Delaware 1891 Public Students" Yes hbcuconnect.com Denmark Technical College Denmark South Carolina 1947 Public Founded as "Denmark Area Trade School" Yes hbcuconnect.com United Church of Founding predecessor institutions: "Straight Dillard University New Orleans Louisiana 1869 Private Christand the United Yes hbcuconnect.com Methodist Church University" and "New Orleans University" Edward Waters College Jacksonville Florida 1866 Private AME Church Founded as "Brown Theological Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com Page 1 HBCUs Elizabeth City State Elizabeth City North Carolina 1891 Public Yes hbcuconnect.com University Fayetteville State University Fayetteville North Carolina 1867 Public Founded as "Howard School" Yes hbcuconnect.com United Church of Fisk University Nashville Tennessee 1866 Private Christ[9] Named for Clinton Bowen Fisk Yes hbcuconnect.com Founded as "State Normal College for Colored Florida A&M University Tallahassee Florida 1887 Public Students" Yes hbcuconnect.com American Baptist Florida Memorial University Miami Gardens Florida 1879 Private Churches USA Founded as "Florida Baptist Institute in Live Oak" Yes hbcuconnect.com Founded as "Fort Valley High and Industrial Fort Valley State University Fort Valley Georgia 1895 Public School" Yes hbcuconnect.com Gadsden State Community Gadsden Alabama 1925 Public Founded as "Alabama School of Trades" Yes hbcuconnect.com College Founded as "Colored Industrial and Agricultural Grambling State University Grambling Louisiana 1901 Public School" Yes hbcuconnect.com Founded as "Hampton Normal and Agricultural Hampton University Hampton Virginia 1868 Private Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com Founded as "St. Louis Normal School" for whites in Harris-Stowe State University St. Louis Missouri 1857 Public 1857, with Stowe Teachers College begun in 1890 Yes hbcuconnect.com for blacks; merged in 1954 Hinds Community College at Utica Mississippi 1903 Public Founded as "Utica Junior College" Yes hbcuconnect.com Utica Founded as "Howard Normal and Theological Howard University Washington District of Columbia 1867 Private School for the Education of Teachers and Yes hbcuconnect.com Preachers" United Methodist Founded as "Tillotson Collegiate and Normal Huston-Tillotson University Austin Texas 1875 Private Church /United Church Yes hbcuconnect.com of Christ Institute" Interdenominational Atlanta Georgia 1958 Private Interdenominational Yes hbcuconnect.com Theological Center J. F. Drake State Technical Founded as "Huntsville State Vocational Technical Huntsville Alabama 1961 Public Yes hbcuconnect.com College School" Founded as "Natchez Seminary" by the American Jackson State University Jackson Mississippi 1877 Public Baptist Home Mission Society, became public in Yes hbcuconnect.com 1942 Jarvis Christian College Hawkins Texas 1912 Private The Disciples Yes hbcuconnect.com Presbyterian Church Johnson C. Smith University Charlotte North Carolina 1867 Private (U.S.A.) Founded as "Biddle Memorial Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com Founded as "State Normal School for Colored Kentucky State University Frankfort Kentucky 1886 Public Persons" Yes hbcuconnect.com United Presbyterian Knoxville Knoxville College Tennessee 1875 Private Church of North No hbcuconnect.com (Mechanicsville) America Christian Methodist Founded as "Colored Methodist Episcopal High Lane College Jackson Tennessee 1882 Private Episcopal Church School" Yes hbcuconnect.com Founded as "Oklahoma Colored Agricultural and Langston University Langston Oklahoma 1897 Public Normal University" Yes hbcuconnect.com Lawson State Community Bessemer Alabama 1949 Public Yes hbcuconnect.com College United Church of Founded as "LeMoyne Normal and Commercial LeMoyne-Owen College Memphis Tennessee 1862 Private Christ School"[12] (elementary school until 1870) Yes hbcuconnect.com Lincoln University Chester County Pennsylvania 1854 Public Founded as "Ashmun Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com Lincoln University of Missouri Jefferson City Missouri 1866 Public Founded as "Lincoln Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com Page 2 HBCUs Livingstone College Salisbury North Carolina 1879 Private AME Zion Founded as "Zion Wesley Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com United Methodist Founded as the Medical Department of Central Meharry Medical College Nashville Tennessee 1876 Private Church Tennessee College Yes hbcuconnect.com Known until 1941 as "Miles Memorial College"; Miles College Fairfield Alabama 1905 Private CME Church named after Bishop William H. Miles Yes hbcuconnect.com Mississippi Valley State Itta Bena Mississippi 1950 Public Founded as "Mississippi Vocational College" Yes hbcuconnect.com University Originally: American Morehouse College Atlanta Georgia 1867 Private Baptist Home Mission Founded as "Augusta Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com Society Morehouse School of Atlanta Georgia 1975 Private Founded as a part of Morehouse College Yes hbcuconnect.com Medicine Originally: Methodist Morgan State University Baltimore Maryland 1867 Public Episcopal Founded as "Centenary Biblical Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com African Methodist Named after the second Bishop in the African Morris Brown College Atlanta Georgia 1881 Private Episcopal Methodist Episcopal Church No hbcuconnect.com Baptist Educational Morris College Sumter South Carolina 1908 Private and Missionary Yes hbcuconnect.com Convention Founded as "Norfolk Unit of Virginia State Norfolk State University Norfolk Virginia 1935 Public University" Yes hbcuconnect.com North Carolina Agricultural & Founded as "The Agricultural & Mechanical Greensboro North Carolina 1891 Public Yes hbcuconnect.com Technical State University College for the Colored Race" North Carolina Central Founded as "National Religious Training School Durham North Carolina 1910 Public Yes hbcuconnect.com University and Chautauqua" Oakwood University Huntsville Alabama 1896 Private Seventh-day Adventist Founded as "Oakwood Industrial School" Yes hbcuconnect.com United Methodist Church and Christian Paine College Augusta Georgia 1882 Private Methodist Episcopal Founded as "Paine Institute" Yes hbcuconnect.com Church Paul Quinn College Dallas Texas 1872 Private AME Church Named for William Paul Quinn Yes hbcuconnect.com Named for Bishop Daniel Payne. Founded as a Payne Theological Seminary Wilberforce