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 Listed among the top (No. 24) southern universities in the regional universities category by U.S. News and World Report magazine's 2009 rankings.
- In 2007, the Princeton Review named Hampton University one of the "Best 357 Colleges" in the nation. Hampton University continues to be ranked among the top 10 in graduating African Americans with biology, business management, communications, English, journalism and psychology degrees by Black Issues in Higher Education magazine.
- Hampton University is one of America's top 50 colleges for wireless Internet capability, according to a 2005 survey by Intel Corporation and the Center for Digital Education.
- Hampton also was ranked No. 4 in the October 2008 issue of
Black Enterprise magazine as one of the leading
colleges and universities for African-American students.
- Hampton continues to be ranked among the top
10 in graduating African Americans with biology, business management,
communications, English, journalism and psychology degrees by Black Issues in
Higher Education magazine.
- Named to the Honor Roll for Character
Building Colleges for
four consecutive years (1996-00) by the John Templeton Foundation,
Hampton University offers its students an education for life.
 Hampton
University's Center for Marine and Environmental Studies is
home to the first marine science program at a predominantly black
university.
The
National Science Foundation has provided $10 million to establish
the University's Nuclear/High Energy Physics (NuHEP) Center
of Excellence.
The Department of Engineering in association with AT&T
Bell Laboratories offers scholarships to outstanding freshmen
in chemical and electrical engineering.
Among the most outstanding structures on campus is the William R.
and Norma B. Harvey Library, a $10.5 million, five-story facility
with capacity for more than 600,000 volumes. The William R. and
Norma B. Harvey Library is the home for the Hampton's Academic
Technology Mall that offers a range of high-tech services for
students, faculty, and staff. The facility serves as a laboratory
for developing course materials, as well as a hub for distributing
video and audio programs campus-wide and via satellite uplink to
locations far beyond. The Academic Technology Mall also provides
access to the Internet, digital scanning services, media production
equipment, and a video encyclopedia collection.
Hampton University's cultural achievements are equally as impressive. The University
Museum, founded in 1868, is the oldest African-American museum
in the United States and one of the oldest museums in Virginia.
A recent $5 million renovation of an existing structure now houses
the Museum's more than 9,000 objects, including traditional art
from Africa, Asia, Native America and the Pacific; African-American
fine arts; and objects relating to the history of the University.
The Museum also includes archival holdings, which now total 10
million documents including works by 10 U.S. presidents; and the
nation's first African American Poetry Archive, created in the
summer of 1998. In addition, in 1996, the Museum acquired management
and operation of The International Review of African American Art,
the only publication devoted primarily to African-American art.
The Martin Luther King, Jr. Hall houses the black family
institute, the center for social research, the Psychology Computer
Laboratory and the Animal Research Laboratory.
Mass Communications Facilities houses the University Radio Station,
WHOV-FM, and a well-equipped television studio with field production
and post production capabilities. Hampton University's radio
station was named an ABC affiliate and broadcasts the nationally
syndicated, "Doug Banks Show".
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