Georgia has 10 HBCUs, four private and six public. Four schools offer engineering programs: Morehouse College, Fort Valley State University, Savannah State University and Clark Atlanta University. Morehouse College, founded in 1867, is a private, four-year institution with an enrollment of 2,800 that offers an innovative dual-degree program in Engineering in which students undertake a general science or liberal arts major at Morehouse for three years or more, and then study engineering for two years at one of 12 universities that participate in a cooperative agreement. Schools that participate in this joint program include Auburn, Columbia and the Georgia Institute of Technology. Graduating students will receive a Bachelor of Science degree from the participating institution, and a bachelor's degree from Morehouse in their chosen major.
North Carolina has four public and four private HBCUs. Out of those eight schools, three offer engineering programs: North Carolina A&T State University, Elizabeth City State University and Johnson C. Smith University. North Carolina A&T State University, founded in 1890, offers bachelor's and master's degrees in engineering, and is the third leading institution in the state in faculty research funding. North Carolina A&T produces the largest number of black graduate degrees in engineering, with 58 M.S. degrees and 14 Ph.D. degrees in Engineering awarded in the 2009-2010 academic year.
Louisiana is home to six HBCUs that include three four-year public universities, two four-year private universities and one two-year public university. The four schools that offer engineering programs are Xavier University, Grambling State University, Southern University A&M College and Dillard University. Grambling State offers a B.S. in engineering technology designed to graduate students as engineering technologists into jobs with schools, government agencies and businesses. Required courses include calculus, engineering graphics, electronic devices, electrical circuits and computer applications.
Three of the nine HBCUs in Texas offer engineering programs: Prairie View A&M, Texas Southern University and Paul Quinn College. Texas Southern University's Department of Engineering Technology offers B.S. degrees in civil engineering technology, computer engineering technology and electronics engineering technology. All three engineering programs emphasize an applications-oriented course of study in engineering technologies, with classes that include civil engineering materials, college algebra, engineering mechanics, applied fluid mechanics and hydraulics engineering.