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Campus Address
2400 Sixth Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20059
Telephone: 202-806-6100
Admissions Address
Dean of Admissions and Records
Howard University
2400 Sixth Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20059
Telephone: 202-806-2750 or 2763
Toll-free: 800-822-6363
Fax: 202-806-4465
E-mail: admissions@howard.edu
http://www.howard.edu
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History
Howard University is a four-year, comprehensive, private, coed liberal arts university. It was founded in 1867 to train black teachers and ministers to guide and teach the 4 million freed slaves and 25,000 free-born blacks. The school was first called Howard Normal and Theological Institute for the Education of Teachers and Preachers, named after General Oliver Otis Howard, one of the founding members and commissioner of the Freedmen’s Bureau. In 1867, the school was named Howard University in recognition of the much broader educational scope envisioned for the institute. That same year, the University was officially incorporated and chartered. The University’s designated departments were normal and preparatory, collegiate, theological, medical, law, and agriculture. In 1872, the first bachelor’s degree was awarded.
Integrated since its founding, Howard University’s first students were 4 Caucasian women who were daughters of 2 of the University’s founders. Today, Howard University has an international blend of faculty members and students as it continues to embrace and enhance the founders’ vision to provide an educational experience of exceptional quality to students of high academic potential, with particular emphasis upon the provision of educational opportunities to promising black students. Now a private institution supported by the federal government, corporations, foundations, and individual contributions, Howard is recognized as one of the few comprehensive predominately black institutions of higher education in the world. The seventeen schools and colleges incorporate the original intent of the founders with contemporary, relevant topics in 200 subjects.
Howard University has more than 50,000 alumni, and has produced more than 10 percent of the nation’s black doctors, lawyers, business leaders, politicians, social workers, engineers, artists, musicians, and other professionals. Five national Greek-letter sororities and fraternities were founded and incorporated at Howard University, including Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority (1908), Omega Psi Fraternity (1911), Delta Sigma Theta Sorority (1913), Phi Beta Sigma (1914), and Zeta Phi Beta (1920). Howard students are often in the media spotlight for events such as division championships or for demonstrations for improvement of federal financial aid to the campus.
Howard University is located on four campuses in Washington, D.C., and suburban Maryland. The 89-acre main campus houses 65 buildings, which include a theater, a $43-million, 500-bed teaching hospital, and a 110-room hotel used for the hotel management program. The newspaper office is located in the house where Charles Drew once lived. The main campus is 5 minutes from downtown Washington. The hilly 22-acre west campus near Rock Creek Park houses the Howard Law Center. The 108-acre School of Life and Physical Sciences is located in Beltsville, Maryland, and the 22-acre School of Divinity is located in northwest Washington, D.C.
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General Information
Private institution
Year founded: 1867
Religious affiliation: None
Academic calendar: Semester
Undergraduate student body: 7,112
Setting: Urban
Endowment: $371,800,000
Fall 2005 Admissions
Application deadline: February 15
Application fee: $45
Selectivity: Selective
2005-2006 Expenses
Tuition and fees: $12,295
Room/board: $6,186
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