The U.S. Department of State’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs (ECA) named 19 institutions of higher education as Fulbright Historically Black College and University (HBCU) Institutional Leaders for 2023.

Over the last 76 years, the Fulbright Program has given more than 400,000 students, scholars, teachers, artists, and professionals of all backgrounds and fields the opportunity to study, teach, and conduct research in the United States or in one of over 160 partner countries worldwide. Fulbright students and scholars are from or hosted by more than 800 colleges and universities across the United States, and thousands more campuses in over 160 countries.

The HBCU Institutional Leader status recognizes engagement across the Fulbright Program, including the hosting Fulbright Foreign Language Teaching Assistants at HBCUs, Scholars-in-Residence, and other Fulbright Students or Scholars as well as having U.S. students, faculty and staff receive Fulbrights to study, teach or conduct research abroad.

The 19 Fulbright HBCU Institutional Leaders for 2023 include:

• Alcorn State University  – Mississippi
• Bennett College – North Carolina
• Bluefield State University – West Virginia
• Central State University – Ohio
• Delaware State University – Delaware
• Fayetteville State University – North Carolina
• Florida A&M University – Florida
• Howard University – Washington, D.C.
• Jackson State University – Mississippi
• Jarvis Christian University – Texas
• The LeMoyne-Owen College – Tennessee
• Lincoln University of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania – Pennsylvania

• Mississippi Valley State University – Mississippi
• Morgan State University – Maryland
• North Carolina Central University – North Carolina
• Spelman College – Georgia
• Texas Southern University – Texas
• Tuskegee University – Alabama
• Virginia State University – Virginia