Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit,  private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university  located in Washington, D.C., United States. It has a Carnegie  Classification of Institutions of Higher Education status of RU/H:  Research Universities (high research activity).
Today,  it is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and is  partially funded by the US Government, which gives approximately $235  million annually. From its outset it has been nonsectarian and open to  people of both genders and all races. Howard has graduate schools of  pharmacy, law, medicine, dentistry and divinity, in addition to the  undergraduate program.




