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A. PageRanks of HBCUs
The PageRanks for the Home Pages of all
of the officially designated HBCUs are presented in Table A (below).
This data was collected on March 13th, 14th, and 15th from workstations
in the DLL's offices in Silver Spring, Maryland.
PageRanks may change over time because
of the addition or loss of links from other Websites. A page that is
ranked 9 one week may be ranked 8 the next. However, the fact that PageRanks
represent Google's distillation of the "votes" a page receives
from all of the other Websites in the world makes it unlikely that a
page would rise two or more ranks within a few weeks or fall by two
or more ranks. In other words, the changes are more likely to be fluctuations
rather than sudden surges or plummets -- unless the world learns that
something "very good" or "very bad" has happened
to the organization that owns the Website. ... :-)
Links to the Home Pages for all HBCUs can
be found on the Profiles
page of the DLL's Gateway.
(Note: the Gateway is best viewed with a Microsoft browser,
version 6 or later)
- No HBCUs received the highest PageRank = 10
- No HBCUs received the next highest PageRank = 9
- Three HBCUs (Hampton, Howard, and Xavier) received
PageRank = 8
- Most universities received PageRank = 7
- Most four year colleges received PageRank = 6
- Most two year colleges and technical institutes received
PageRank = 5
Table A. PageRanks of HBCUs
Silver Spring, Md -- 4/13/06 , 4/14/06,
4/15/06
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PageRank |
HBCUs |
10 |
none |
| 9 |
none |
8 |
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| 7 |
University:
Alabama A&M, Bowie State, Claflin, Clark Atlanta, Delaware State,
Dillard, Elizabeth City State, Fayetteville State, Fisk, Florida
A&M, Grambling, Huston-Tillotson, Jackson State, Johnson C.
Smith, Langston, Lincoln (PA), Morgan State, Norfolk State, North
Carolina A&T, North Carolina Central, South Carolina State,
Southern A&M, Southern (New Orleans), Tennessee State, Tuskegee,
Arkansas (Pine Bluff), Maryland (Eastern Shore), Virgin Islands,
Virginia State, Wilberforce, Winston-Salem
College-4: Coppin State,
Miles, Morehouse, Morehouse School of Medicine, Paine, Spelman,
Tougaloo
Other: |
6 |
University: Albany
State, Alcorn State, Central State, Cheney State, Florida Memorial,
Fort Valley State, Kentucky State, Mississippi Valley State, Savannah
State, Shaw, Texas Southern, University of District of Columbia,
Virginia Union, West Virginia State
College-4: Benedict, Bennett, Bethune-Cookman,
Bluefield State, Concordia, Interdenominational
Theological Center, Jarvis Christian, Lane, LeMoyne-Owen, Livingstone,
Meharry Medical, Morris Brown, Morris, Oakwood, Paul Quinn, Philander
Smith, Rust, Southwestern Christian, St. Augustine's, Saint Paul's,
Stillman, Talladega, Texas, Voorhees
Other : Bishop State, Shelton State, Southern
(Shreveport) |
| 5 |
University:
Allen
College-4: Arkansas Baptist, Knoxville, Lewis,
Wiley
Other: Gadsden State, Hinds, J.F. Drake, Lawson State,
St. Philip's, Trenholm State
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4 |
University:
College-4
Other: Coahoma, Denmark Technical |
| 3 |
University
College-4
Other: Clinton |
2 |
University
College-4
Other |
| 1 |
University
College-4
Other |
No rank assigned |
University: Alabama
State, Lincoln (MO), Prarie View, Selma, Virginia (Lynchburg)
College-4: Barber-Scotia,
Edward Waters, Harris-Stowe State
Other |
B. PageRanks of Other Colleges and Universities
Table A is useful for comparing HBCUs with
each other, but it provides no clue as to whether these ratings are
higher than might be expected, lower than expected, or just right. To
put Table A's PageRanks into perspective, the DLL obtained PageRanks
for a number of other well-known majority colleges and universities.
These comparative benchmarks can be found in Table B (below).
- The DLL was unable to find any college or university
that received the highest PageRank = 10
- The elite "usual suspects" -- Harvard,
Yale, M.I.T., Stanford, Berkeley, etc received PageRank = 9
- The DLL found many prominent institutions having
PageRank = 8
- The DLL also found many well-known institutions having
PageRank = 7
- Eight of the most successful, rapidly growing, for-profit
universities received PageRank = 6
Table B. PageRanks of HBCUs +
Selected Majority Colleges & Universities
Silver Spring, Md -- 4/13/06 & 4/14/06
|
PageRank |
College/University |
10 |
HBCUs: none
Some Others: none ???
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| 9 |
HBCUs: none
Some Others: Harvard,
Yale, M.I.T.
Stanford, Johns
Hopkins, Berkeley, UNC
(Chapel Hill), Carnegie Mellon,
Cal Tech, UT
(Austin), Wisconsin (Madison),
UCLA, Purdue,
Penn |
8 |
HBCUs: Hampton,
Howard, Xavier
Some Others: UVA
(Charlotte), NYU, Georgia
Tech, George Washington University,
Georgetown, Notre
Dame, Ohio State, Mississippi
(Oxford) |
| 7 |
HBCUs: Most
HBCU universities
Some Others: Michigan
(Ann Arbor), Oberlin,
Gallaudet, California
State (Long Beach), Marquette,
North Dakota, Penn
State (Harrisburg), Villanova,
Wisconsin (Green Bay), Washington
& Lee |
6 |
HBCUs: Most four year HBCU
colleges
Some Others: Capella,
Corinthian, DeVry, ITT,
University of Phoenix, Strayer,
Walden |
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