WASHINGTON, D.C., October 2, 2023 — The Hon. Patrick Adderley Bahamas Consul General to Washington, D.C., and Consul Tami Ferguson-Culmer, met with Bahamian students at Morgan State University (MSU) on September 22, 2023.
Currently, there are 16 Bahamian students at MSU and they were delighted to share their experiences at MSU with the two Bahamian diplomats, and Consul-General Adderley assured them that the Consular Annex will have a follow up meeting with faculty and staff of MSU.
A public historically black research university in Baltimore, Maryland, MSU is the largest of Maryland’s historically black colleges and universities (HBCUs). In 1890, the university, then known as the Centenary Biblical Institute, changed its name to Morgan College to honor Reverend Lyttleton Morgan, the first chairman of its board of trustees and a land donor to the college. It became university in 1975.
Morgan State is a member of Thurgood Marshall College Fund. Although a public institution, MSU is not part of the University System of Maryland. It is classified among “R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity’”
As of the fall of 2019, there are 6,491 undergraduates and 1,302 graduate students enrolled at MSU. about 30 of whom were non-Maryland residents, including many from foreign countries. The largest sources of enrollment outside of Maryland are New York, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania.
From 2006 to 2019 the number of African-American students remained constant, but the numbers of other racial groups, including Hispanic/Latino and non-Hispanic white students increased. International students also increased in that period.
SOURCE: Wikipedia, the online Encyclopedia.
