Roughly 37% of black students at historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs) finish a degree within six years. That’s four percentage points less than the 2007 national college graduation rate of 41% for black students (down from 45% in 2006), according to an Associated Press analysis of 83 federally designated four-year HBCUs. The overall national graduation rate is 56%.
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