Founded in 1866, Fisk University
is the oldest institution of higher education in Nashville, Tennessee, and will
celebrate its sesquicentennial in 2016.
Fisk received a charter for the first chapter of The Phi Beta Kappa Society
on a predominantly black campus in 1953.
Fisk’s outstanding faculty and students continue to enhance the
University’s national reputation for academic excellence that is validated year
after year by the leading third party reviewers, as well as by the pool of
talented applicants and the large percentage of alumni who complete graduate or
professional degrees and become leaders and scholars in their fields.
Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) Programs
Fisk’s longstanding legacy of
excellence is reinforced by its accomplishments in the 21st century,
especially in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM) and
Business disciplines. Fisk remains the only historically black college or
university (HBCU) ever to win the prestigious R&D 100 award, and to date
has one three.
The Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D
Bridge Program has produced five Ph.D. graduates in the past three years in
physics, astronomy, and materials science, disciplines in which African
Americans and Latinos are underrepresented.
As of 2006, no U.S. institution awards more master’s in physics degrees
to African-American U.S. citizens than Fisk, which is also one of the top ten
U.S. institutions awarding master’s in physics degrees to U.S. citizens of any
ethnic background. In 2012, the
Fisk-Vanderbilt Master’s-to-Ph.D. Bridge Program graduated five Ph.D.
recipients in the physical sciences and is on track to graduate this number
each year. This is ten times the national
average for physical science Ph.D. programs.
Department of Business Administration
The Department of Business
Administration has a reputation for producing alumni who hold top positions in
their fields. These include entrepreneurs
George Russell Curtis, Sr. ’56, Karl Turner ’77 and Jacquelyn Denton Alton ’66,
sports agents and executives Carl Poston II ’77 and Kevin Poston ’81, Music
World Entertainment Founding CEO Mathew Knowles ’75, hospital system executive
Mark Chastang ’74 and American Hospital Association Chairman John W. Bluford
III ’71.
Among the many young alumni who
have begun to make their marks are risk analysts Jenise Burks ’11 and Jordan
West ’10, financial services professional James Horton ’06, accunting executive
Dominique D’Antingnac-Bell ’97, social media strategist Rob Wingfield ’00,
foreign services officer William Campbell ’07, and human resources professional
Johnathan Montgomery ’99.
The department’s Entrepreneurial
Action by University Students (ENACTUS) organization (formerly known as Students
in Free Enterprise (SIFE) regularly regional competitions for their innovative
projects that make a difference in the Nashville community while developing
them into socially responsible business leaders. Fisk holds membership in the Accreditation Council
for Business Schools and Programs (ACBSP). The Department of Business
Administration offers a B.S. degree with concentration in music business
through a collaborative agreement with Belmont University. In addition, Fisk offers a joint program with
the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University. In five years, students earn a Fisk
baccalaureate degree and a Vanderbilt Master of Business Administration
(M.B.A.) degree.
National Rankings
Fisk ranked in the top 20 percent
of 650 higher education institutions and is the highest ranked HBCU on Forbes’
2012 Top Colleges List. Fisk also
ranked #119 among all private institutions and #34 among all institutions in
the South.
The 2013 U.S. News & World
Report’s “Best Colleges and Universities” ranked Fisk in Tier One at #145 of
more than 1,400 Liberal Arts Institutions in the United States. Only three HBCUs are ranked in Tire One. Fisk is ranked #5 on the list of “The Best
Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs)”.
The Washington Monthly, September
2012, ranked Fisk as the “#1 Liberal Arts HBCU in Research” in its “Top Liberal
Arts Colleges and Universities.” Fisk
ranks in the top 6 percent of the 254 leading liberal arts institutions based
on social mobility, research and service.
For the 20th
consecutive year, the Princeton Review included Fisk on the 2013 list of “The
Best Southeastern Colleges.”
Fall 2012 Enrollment
Enrollment is 620, a 16 percent
increase over last year and the largest growth in six years. The average GPA for the Class of 2016 is
3.33, which is higher than the average GPA of 3.15 for the previous class.
Fisk’s entering students’ average
SAT score is 1622, which is higher than the national average SAT score of 1500
and of 1272 for African American college entrants.[1]
Students’ average ACT score is 21, which is higher than the national average of
17 for African American college entrants.[2]
Among Fisk’s Class of 2016,
biology is the most popular major, followed by business, psychology, physics
and chemistry.
Fisk’s Fall-to-Fall persistence
rate is 84 percent. The national average
persistence rate is 57 percent, and the average persistence rate at other
Tennessee institutions is 51 percent.
Fisk’s six-year graduation rate
is 59 percent. The national graduation rate was 56 percent in 2009, which is
the latest available number from the Integrated Postsecondary Education Data
System.
Over 17 percent of Fisk students
are selected for internships, which is above the 9 percent national average for
internship placement on college campuses.[3]
Sixty-one percent of students who
earn a Fisk degree enter graduate or professional school within one year of
their graduation, ahead of the national average of 23 percent.[4]
Fisk’s 2012 graduating class
included five students who were inducted into the Phi Beta Kappa Society.
Cultivating Scholars &
Leaders One By One
Source: Office of
Institutional Advancement
February 15, 2013
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