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Meharry Medical College is a graduate-only HBCU focused on medicine and the health sciences. It was the first HBCU to have this focus and only one of two currently (Morehouse School of Medicine is the other).
Meharry was the first medical school for Blacks established in the South. It was first the medical school of the now defunct HBCU Central Tennessee College (later Walden College) which folded in 1925. Ten years earlier, however, in 1915, Meharry had already received its own charter and become a separate institution. Meharry is named for the Irish immigrant businessman Samuel Meharry. According to the story, he was given vital aid early in his time in America by a family of Freedman before the Civil War and he vowed to repay them or their race. He later donated the funds to found the medical school. It rapidly trained Black physicians and attracted them as instructors. By the 1880s, alomst all of the instructing physicians at Meharry were Black.
Meharry added a dental school in 1886, a pharmacy school in 1889, and a nursing school in 1910 (though it closed in 1960). From its earliest times, Meharry had a special focus on the health of the Black community. Its first students went to the poor Black neighborhoods of Nashville and later as its research resources grew, it performed more ambitious projects such as revolutionizing and improving the treatment options for premature Black newborns in the South, most of whom died before their first birthday prior to the 1950s.
Meharry is also notable for its tireless drive to educate Black doctors even under the most adverse circumstances, as related in an article about its history:
Hansen, A.C., 1973. Meharry Medical College in retrospect. Journal of the National Medical Association, 65(4), p.274.
Image Source: Parham, Sandra (2021). Meharry Medical College. Charleston: Arcadia Publishing
Founded: 1876
City, State: Nashville, TN
Type: 4-year, Private not-for-profit (Masters, PhD, MD only)
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Enrollment and percent Black enrollment: 964 students, 87% Black
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Male/Female percentages (Female:Male Ratio): 37% male/ 63% female (1.7:1)
Tuition: $28k
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Top Majors by Degrees:
Medicine, Dentistry, Masters Public Health
Endowment: ~$159M (including $20M from MacKenzie Scott)
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Notable Alumni:
John Henry Hale - teacher at Meharry Medical College for 29 years; reportedly performed over 30,000 surgeries
Audrey Manley - former acting surgeon general and former president of Spelman College
Robert Lee - expatriate to Ghana in the 1960s and its first Black dentist
Louis Pendleton - prominent Shreveport physician and civil rights activist
Walter Tucker - former mayor of Compton
Main Campus
The Cal Turner Family Center - For Student Education
New Living and Learning Center (under construction)
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