Wall Street Journal

By Douglas Belkin 

October 27, 2015

Excerpts from article

About two-thirds of the African-American students who enter a historically black college or university failed to finish in six years, but for those who graduate, such schools do a better job preparing them for life after college than other schools do for their black graduates. 

“Rating by graduates on the experiences they had during college are hugely different for black grads from HBCUs[historically black colleges and universities] in a favorable way,”said Brandon Busteed, executive director of Gallup Education, which conducted the poll. “What really surprised me was how big the differences are.”

In the survey, 55% of black graduates from historically black colleges or universities strongly agree that their school prepared them well for life, compared with 29% of black graduates of non-HBCUs. And 40% of black HBCU graduates say they are doing very well financially, as opposed to 29% of black graduates from non-HBCUs.