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Howard
University
Washington,
DC
Howard University
(HU) is a private, coeducational, nonsectarian university located
in Washington, D.C., United States.
Established
on March 2, 1867 under a charter enacted by Congress and approved
by President Andrew Johnson, the college was named after General
Oliver O. Howard who was commissioner of the Freedmen's Bureau
and the college's third president. A historically black university,
the college currently ranks 96th among national universities in
the U.S. News & World Report's "America's Best Colleges
2008" rankings. Howard University is the number-one producer
of African American Ph.D.s in the United States.
Howard was
established by a charter in 1867, and much of its early funding
came from endowment, private benefaction, and tuition. An annual
congressional appropriation administered by the Secretary of the
Interior funded the school. Today, it is a member school of the
Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and is partially funded by
the US Government, which gives approximately $235 million annually.
From its outset, it was nonsectarian and open to people of both
sexes and all races.
Howard has
graduate schools of law, medicine, dentistry and divinity, in
addition to the undergraduate program. The current enrollment
(as of 2003) is approximately 11,000, including 7,000 undergraduates.
The university's football homecoming activities serve as one of
the premier annual events in Washington.
www.howard.edu
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