University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff Grad School
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1200 N University Mail Slot 4789Pine Bluff, AR, 71601, USA
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The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff (UAPB) is a historically black university located in Pine Bluff, Arkansas. Founded in 1873, it is the oldest HBCU and the second oldest public institution in the state in Arkansas (after the University of Arkansas). UAPB is a member school of the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund. The University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff, was founded in 1873 as the Branch Normal College; it was nominally part of the "normal" (education) department of Arkansas Industrial University, later the University of Arkansas, but was operated separately due to segregation. It later became a land-grant college under the 1890 amendments to Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act, which required states which did not open their land-grant university to all races to establish a separate land-grant university for each race. The school severed its ties with the University of Arkansas and became Arkansas Agricultural, Mechanical & Normal (AM&N;) College in 1927; it moved to its current... more at freebase
| Type | Public |
| Campus Setting | City: Small |
| Highest Degree | Master's degree |
| Graduate Degree | Yes |
| Medical Degree | No |