<p>I find that this board is so full of information but it is sorely lacking info on the Historically Black Universities.</p>
<p>I am looking for infor on Hampton University and Howard University. Both in terms of financial aid (both need based and merit) and their academic program (specifically pharmacy).</p>
<p>Thank you</p>
<p>This is not an area I know a great deal about, but I feel it is important and will try to help you. Here is one link I found, which contains links to the historically black colleges and universities.</p>
<p>General information about the colleges academic programs and financial aid can be found at Collegeboard.com. Have you also looked at their websites?</p>
<p>I believe US News ranks schools of pharmacy; that might give you some info.</p>
<p>This link gives a list of colleges that offer pharmacy programs:</p>
<p>I'll probably get flack for posting this...</p>
<p>A Princeton Review survey of 110,000 U.S. college students found that Hampton University ranks No. 7 on the list of worst financial aid programs among 357 universities considered. <a href="http://www.blackcollegewire.org/news/040921_hampton-aid%5B/url%5D">http://www.blackcollegewire.org/news/040921_hampton-aid</a></p>
<p>Lots of data that probably won't mean much to you. If I read this correctly, Hampton U is ranked 46th ($800k) for its School of Pharmacy funding received from the National Institute of Health (NIH) in comparison to $23.5 million awarded to the U of California at San Francisco (UCSF). <a href="http://grants.nih.gov/grants/award/trends/dhephrm04.htm%5B/url%5D">http://grants.nih.gov/grants/award/trends/dhephrm04.htm</a></p>
<p>Here is a graduate student attending the School of Pharmacy. Shoot her an e-mail for information.
<a href="http://pp.blackplanet.com/diamond83%5B/url%5D">http://pp.blackplanet.com/diamond83</a></p>
<p>Those are some really sketchy statistics.</p>
<p>The Princeton Review non-scientic survey of students is essentially asking "how hard is it to make ends meet?" with their financial aid ranking. Howard could have fine financial aid (I have no idea) and score very low on this question if a high percentage of students are low-income.</p>
<p>The NIH funding examples you gave are apples and oranges. The UC-San Francisco entry is the graduate and professional school of the largest state university system in the country. It is a major graduate research, medical, and dental institution and thus would get huge amounts of research funding from NIH. It's like comparing the NIH funding of Harvard Medical School and Amherst: apples and oranges.</p>
<p>I have heard both grad students and faculty complain about bureaucratic headaches at Howard, but I don't know about the undergraduate experience there.</p>
<p>Don't know much about Hampton, except I love the campus.</p>
<p>interesteddad is right about the Pharmacy thing--UC-SF wouldn't be a fair benchmark for nearly any school when it comes to health- and medical-related research funding. It's what UC-SF is on the map for.</p>