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LinkedIn Names Howard University as the Nation’s #1 HBCU Based on Alumni Career Success

LinkedIn recently unveiled its inaugural Top Colleges rankings of higher education institutions in the United States, naming Howard University as the #1 HBCU. The list identifies the schools that “set graduates up for long-term success.”

Aug 17, 2025 4 minutes

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Left to right: Errol Watkis, Nicholas Oakley, Chris Harper, and Katharine Elkes in Founders Sitting Room

Founders Library Reopens its Doors, Showcasing Cutting-edge Research While Preserving the Past

Aug 15, 2025 6 minutes

Danda Rawat

Your Cameras Could Be Spying on You: Howard CEA Researchers Publish New Findings on Smart IoT Device Abuse in Financial Cybercrimes

Aug 13, 2025 3 minutes

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Standing on the Shoulders of Giants: Incoming Political Science Scholar Jehu King Shares His Drive for Public Service

Aug 6, 2025 7 minutes

Student journalist conducting an interview

Howard University Election Project Kicks Off as Journalism Students Prepare for Midterm Elections

Nov 7, 2022 4 minutes

Finding Tamika Poster

Two Howard University Centers to Host Conversation on Missing Black Women

Nov 7, 2022 3 minutes

Vice President Kamala Harris discusses the importance of voting and the fight over women’s reproductive rights with actress DeWanda Wise and the 19th News’s Editor-at-Large, Errin Haines during a moderated discussion. This discussion the “State of Our Union: Reproductive Rights” was hosted by BET News in Cramton Auditorium. -Mia Montgomery/Mia B Photography

Photo of the Week November 5, 2022

Nov 7, 2022 1 minute

Justin Hansford at the National Law Journal Awards 2022

Howard University Law Professor Receives D.C. Rising Star Award from the National Law Journal

Nov 7, 2022 2 minutes

Howard University Alumni Jazz Brunch 2022

Alumni Jazz Brunch Topped Off a Historic Homecoming Weekend at Howard

Nov 4, 2022 2 minutes

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International Stigma Conference Returns to Howard University’s Blackburn Center

Nov 3, 2022 4 minutes

Anjerrika Bean, PhD Appointed Assistant Director for the Center for Women, Gender and Global Leadership at Howard University

Nov 2, 2022 3 minutes

Ollie May Cooper Award Flyer

Howard University School of Law Dean Danielle Holley to Receive Prestigious Ollie May Cooper Award from Washington Bar Association

Nov 2, 2022 3 minutes

Dean Dawn Williams and Alexandra Bolden

Howard University School of Education Dean has Tearful Reunion at Howard Homecoming 2022

Nov 1, 2022 3 minutes

Erin Horne McKinney

Howard University, PNC National Center for Entrepreneurship Name Erin Horne McKinney as Inaugural Executive Director

Oct 31, 2022 4 minutes

Dr. Frederick and Karen Knudsen from ACS

At Howard University: American Cancer Society, Congressmen Issue Call of Arms on Prostate Cancer Danger to Black Men

Jan 13, 2023 4 minutes

Cameryn Burnette

Howard University Graduate and Karsh STEM Scholar Named in Eighth Cohort of Schwarzman Scholars

Jan 11, 2023 3 minutes

Alfred P. Sloan Foundation Awards Quantum Biology Laboratory at Howard University $1M for Matter-to-Life Research

Jan 6, 2023 4 minutes

AVP LaNiece Tyree

Howard AVP Appointed Vice President of National College Business Trade Association

Jan 4, 2023 2 minutes

Howard University Alumni Named to Forbes’ 30 Under 30 for Finance, Retail & E-Commerce, Hollywood & Entertainment

Dec 15, 2022 3 minutes

Dean Richardson with students over lunch

“Chat & Chew” Gathering Inspires Understanding

Dec 14, 2022 5 minutes

Howard University to Offer its Undergraduate and Graduate Students Free Comprehensive Prep for Admissions and Licensure Exams Through New Partnership with Kaplan

Dec 13, 2022 4 minutes

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Ranti Akiyode, PharmD., Appointed Dean of the Howard University’s College of Pharmacy

Dec 12, 2022 3 minutes

Children posing with books at Family Reading Night

Giving the Gift of Reading: Howard University Hosts Virtual Family Reading Night

Dec 12, 2022 3 minutes

Howard University students at Douglass Hall

Howard University Receives Second $10 Million Gift from the Karsh Family Foundation to Support GRACE Grant Program

Dec 12, 2022 3 minutes