A lot of the usual suspects, but not all. Based on AA grad rates, affordability, earnings potential (which seems to give a STEM bump) and representation.
http://time.com/money/4282172/best-colleges-african-americans/
Ranking is not surprising, given the criteria:
- (raw) graduation rates -> favors highly selective schools, since academic characteristics on entry are the strongest predictor
- affordability -> favors schools with the best financial aid (mainly highly selective schools, perhaps some in-state publics)
- pay rates of graduates -> favors engineering-heavy schools and those recruited by Wall Street and consulting companies
- representation (of black students) -> favors historically black schools that have not attracted many non-black students
10, 12 and 14 are the only publics that aren’t HBCUs, is that right?
Out of the top 20. The list in the article has 50 schools.
Of course, if you swap in a different race/ethnicity, you would probably get a list with mostly the same highly selective schools (that score well on raw graduation rate, pay of graduates due to Wall Street and consulting recruiting or engineering, and affordability due to good financial aid), but with the historically black schools replaced by schools with high enrollments of that race/ethnicity (that score well on the representation criterion).