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Howard University

Breakdown of “Surrounding City” at Howard

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By Gender
MalesB+
FemalesB+
By Major
AccountingC
Architecture & Urban Planning DepartmentA-
Art & Design DepartmentA-
BiologyA
Business - Management and AdministrationA-
Chemical EngineeringA
ChemistryA+
Civil EngineeringB+
CommunicationsC+
Computer EngineeringB-
Computer ScienceA
Design Arts - Industrial Design/Graphic Design/etcF
EconomicsB
Electrical EngineeringA
EnglishB
JournalismA+
Music - PerformanceA
NursingA
OtherB-
Perfomance ArtsA+
PharmacyB+
PhilosophyA
Political ScienceA-
PreLaw and LegalB-
PreMed and MedicalA
PsychologyA
Public HealthA+
Social WorkA
SociologyA+
UndecidedA

Against similar schools

Surrounding City compared with similar schools in class.

Howard University
 B+
Average of All Schools
 B-
Average of schools in class
 B+

Harvard University
 B+
Hampton University
 D+
New York University
 A
Florida State University
 B-
Yale University
 B
Florida International University
 B+
Princeton University
 C+
F
A+

Surrounding City

... This is an exciting city and you can get around very easily because of the Metro rail and bus system ...Read full comment
... Even though I knew about the ROUGH neighborhood since I'm from the Baltimore area, I still was surprised by it: homeless ppl walking up to yo...Read full comment
... HU has its own culture different from the city and people do their own thing ...Read full comment
... Come to school here with the capacity for advocacy, and the will to put forth the effort to create reciprocity within the school ...Read full comment
... Just as anywhere else, we have many people who distingusih themsleves based on ideologies, political and religous beliefs, social constructs, an...Read full comment
... protestant suburban areas, rough inner city ghettos, seemingly archaic rural areas, and other more culturally conservative nations ...Read full comment
... The Campus is huge and it is located in the city so of course there are the hotspots ...Read full comment
... Although Howard is in uptown, northwest DC, there seems to be no connection at all with the city among students and others in the Howard communi...Read full comment
... The Quad is quite similar to Drew and is the biggest dormitory on campus by capacity ...Read full comment
... like any other city has its good and bad parts and Howard is in an O ...Read full comment
I will be an incoming freshman at Howard class of 2018, and majoring in civil engineering. They have a great engineering program with a lot of competi...Read full comment
... Most of the students come from middle to upper class backgrounds (non-inner city folk) so there is none of that ghetto stuff here ...Read full comment
... The city surrounding Howard University (Washington D ...Read full comment
... Like most urban schools, Howard has its problems with city life ...Read full comment
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