Four-year Colleges and Universities
- Independent private women's college, founded 1891
- More than 2,200 students
- 50 majors and concentrations at undergraduate level
- 466 degrees conferred annually
- Independent private women's college, founded in 1857
- Student to faculty ratio of 14:1
- Approximately 700 students
- 125 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
- 473 degrees conferred annually
- Founded in 1867 by prominent Episcopal clergy
- Private, historically black, co-ed institution.
- Approximately 1,400 students
- 168 degrees conferred annually
- Private university, affiliated with the Baptist State Convention of North Carolina
- Approximately 6,000 students
- Recently relocated the Law School to downtown Raleigh
- Nation's first public liberal arts institution founded for African Americans
- Approximately 8,000 students
- Part of the 16-campus University of North Carolina system
- 1,385 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)
