But always their goals were excellence in the education of their students. After desegregation of the '50s and '60s, many African-American students enrolled in historically white institutions, even though historically black institutions continued to actually graduate the largest number of them. In recent years more students are gravitating toward the historically black institutions, with the greatest number of students citing their first three choices of schools as Howard University, Hampton University and Clark Atlanta University. Much of this gravitation is attributed to publicized racism experienced on white campuses. Many of the graduates from historically black institutions go on to matriculate at historically white institutions and do exceptionally well.
Black institutions seek to help black students achieve.
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