Justin C. Ortagus

Feb 22, 2024 | brookings.edu | Ashley Edwards |Justin C. Ortagus |Jonathan Smith |Andria Smythe

Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs), which comprise only three percent of postsecondary education institutions, are on the minds of hundreds of thousands of Black Americans who graduate from high school each year. Among 1.2 million Black SAT takers who graduated from high school between 2004 and 2010, almost 40 percent applied to at least one HBCU and nearly 16 percent attended an HBCU.