Payne Theological Seminary is an African Methodist Episcopal seminary in Wilberforce, Ohio.

Bowie State University is a public historically black university in Prince George’s County, Maryland, north of Bowie.

LeMoyne–Owen College is a private historically black college affiliated with the United Church of Christ and located in Memphis, Tennessee.

Lincoln University (LU) is a public state-related historically black university near Oxford, Pennsylvania.

University of the District of Columbia is a public historically black land-grant university in Washington, D.C.

The oldest HBCU. Founded by Quaker philanthropist Richard Humphreys as “Institute for Colored Youth”