Four-year Colleges and Universities
- Independent private women's college, founded 1891
- 2,200 students
- 38 majors and concentrations at undergraduate level
- 511 degrees conferred annually
- Independent private women's college, founded in 1857
- Student to faculty ratio of 11:1
- Approximately 750 students
- 114 degrees conferred annually
- Founded in 1865, Shaw University is the first historically black college of the South
- Private, co-ed, liberal arts university. Affiliated with the Baptist Church.
- Approximately 2,700 students
- 384 degrees conferred annually
- Founded in 1867 by prominent Episcopal clergy
- Private, historically black, co-ed institution.
- Approximately 1,500 students
- 178 degrees conferred annually
- Private university, affiliated with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
- Approximately 7,000 students
- Recently relocated the Law School to downtown Raleigh
- 1,405 degrees conferred annually
- Nation's first public liberal arts institution founded for African Americans
- Approximately 8,600 students
- Part of the 17-campus University of North Carolina system
- 1,430 degrees conferred annually
- Founded in 1950 on the former Wake Forest College campus (Which in 1956 moved to Winston-Salem, NC and became Wake Forest University)
- 2,077 students (459 undergraduate, 1,618 graduate)
