page_title: Howard University
section_title: Students
hierarchical_section_title: Howard University / Student life / Students
caption_attribution_description: English: The Harriet Tubman Quadrangle-- “The Quad”-- is comprised of five halls housing approximately 640 freshman females only. The resident halls are comprised of Wheatley, Baldwin, Frazier, Truth and Crandall Halls.
context_page_description: Howard University is a private, federally chartered historically black university in Washington, D.C. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity" and accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.
  Tracing its history to 1867, from its outset Howard has been nonsectarian and open to people of all sexes and races. It offers undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees in more than 120 programs, more than any other HBCU in the nation.
context_section_description: The U.S. students come from the following regions: New England 2%, Mid-West 8%, South 22%, Mid-Atlantic 55%, and West 12%. Nearly 4% of the student body are international students. Howard University is 86% African-American/Black.
  Howard is one of the top five largest HBCUs in the nation with around 10,000 students. The student-to-faculty ratio is 7:1.
  Howard is a selective institution. The incoming freshman class of fall 2019 had 21,009 applicants and 7,561 (36%) were accepted into Howard.
  There are over 200 student organizations and special interest groups established on campus.
  Howard produced four Rhodes Scholars between 1986 and 2017. Between 1998 and 2009, Howard University produced a Marshall Scholar, two Truman Scholars, twenty-two Fulbright Scholars and ten Pickering Fellows.
  In 2006, Howard's six-year graduation rate was 68%. In 2009, 1,270 of the 1,476 full-time freshmen enrolled were found to have financial need (86%). Of these, Howard could meet the full financial aid needs of 316 freshmen. Howard's average undergraduate student's indebtedness at graduation is $16,798.
caption: The Harriet Tubman Quadrangle – "The Quad" – consists of five halls housing approximately 640 freshman females only. The resident halls are Wheatley, Baldwin, Frazier, Truth and Crandall Halls.
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