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Morehouse College needs little introduction. Part of the big three of the HBCUs including Spelman College (Day 33) and Howard University (Day 50), Morehouse College is the only all-male HBCU and one of the most outstanding by all measures. It has one of the top five largest endowments, following only Howard, Spelman, Hampton, and Meharry Medical College, one of the highest graduation rates, and some of the highest starting salaries, especially for liberal arts majors. Its traditions are renowned, its alumni include powerhouses unmatched elsewhere such as MLK, and it is the poster child for exemplary leadership in its formative years.
Morehouse College is in Atlanta and part of the Atlanta University Center but it was not always so. When it was founded in 1867 to educate Baptist clergy and teachers for freed slaves, it was founded in Augusta, Georgia as the Augusta Institute. The two men instrumental in its founding were Richard Coulter, an escaped slave from Augusta who fled to DC and then Philadelphia during the Civil War and was trained as a Baptist minister and Rev. William J. White, a White Baptist who helped Coulter obtain help, funds, and the first teachers. It was not until 1879 that the school was moved to Atlanta by then President Joseph Thomas Robert and renamed the Atlanta Baptist Seminary. However, the location was not ideal since it was located next to the train switching yard and a lumber mill and had no room to expand for dormitories. In 1890, Morehouse moved within Atlanta to its current location in the West End and in 1897 it became a college being renamed the Atlanta Baptist College. The same year it also completed its first large building, now known as Graves Hall after President Samuel Graves who oversaw its construction. In 1913, it would receive a new charter from the State of Georgia and name itself Morehouse College after the White philanthropist Rev. Henry Lyman Morehouse, the Corresponding Secretary of the American Baptist Home Mission Society. Like Spelman, one of its primary benefactors funding its growth and expansion was John D. Rockefeller (whose wife's maiden name was Spelman).
Morehouse then began its gradual strengthening as a liberal arts institution and diversification away from a reliance on theology studies. It would retain Baptist theological studies until the founding of the Interdenominational Theological Center which absorbed its theology department. Morehouse was blessed by many visionary and strong leaders such as John Hope, who founded and organized the Atlanta University Center, and Benjamin Mays, who solidified Morehouse's standing as not only a top HBCU but a top center of higher education. He would also change the world with his mentoring of many prominent Morehouse grads such as Martin Luther King Jr. Benjamin Mays also oversaw the creation of the Interdenominational Theological Center to centralize the many Black seminaries of various denominations in the area.
The title a "Morehouse Man" is one of the most prestigious and well-known accolades in the Black community not just in the US, but globally. Morehouse alumni have risen to top positions in science, politics, and entertainment. What many people do not know is that Morehouse is influential in that it is the top feeder of Black men to the top business and law schools in the country such as Harvard, etc. Therefore, graduation statistics alone underestimate the role Morehouse plays in creating the Black elite class.
With continued good leadership and the decline and fall of affirmative action in US higher education, Morehouse, like other top HBCUs, may yet continue its current success and even rise to greater heights in the 21st century.
Morehouse as the Augusta Institute
Morehouse's first home in Atlanta
Founded: 1867
City, State: Atlanta, GA
Type: 4-Year Private
Nickname: Tigers
Enrollment and percent Black enrollment: 2,554 (all undergraduate), 98% Black
Part-time student percentage: 14%
First Generation Student Percentage: 20%
Percentage of students from households under $30k/over $100k: 39% / 18%
Out of State Percentage: 72% (Top States: Georgia, New York, Illinois, California, Maryland, Texas, North Carolina, Pennsylvania)
Student-to-Faculty Ratio: 12:1
Admissions Acceptance Rate: 65%
4-yr/6-yr graduation rates: 33% / 54%
Transfer out rate: 31%
Male/Female percentages (Female:Male Ratio): 100% male/ 0% female
Tuition: $30k
Median Federal Debt After Graduation: $25k
Median Parent PLUS Loans After Graduation: $87k
Median Earning 10-Years after 10 years from freshman year: $52k
Median Earnings for specific majors after 3 years after graduation:
Economics: $84k, Biology: $72k, Business Administration: $62k, English: $52k, Political Science: $52k
Top Majors by Degrees:
Business Administration, Biology, Visual & Performing Arts, Political Science, Sociology, Economics
Endowment: ~$280M (including $20M from MacKenzie Scott)
Alumni Engagement: 17% of alumni give back
Athletic Conference: SIAC, NCAA Div II
Mascot: Maroon Tigers
Main Campus
Graves Hall
Thomas Kilgore Jr. Campus Center
Harvey Stadium
Forbes Arena
House of Funk Marching Band
Morehouse College Glee Club
Founded in 1911 and world famous
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