ETI salutes the students, alumni and staff of Fisk University

Fisk University provides a rich academic experience steeped in the liberal arts tradition. Our faculty and students exhibit a passion for learning and personal growth. We are committed to ethical leadership and engagement in our local and global.

Quick Facts

Undergrad Population: 850
Graduate Population: 23
Student Body: Coed
In State Tuition: $19462
Out of State Tuition: $19462
Room & Board: $9092
Applications Due: June 15 ($50)

Conference:
Mascot: Bulldogs
Accreditations:
Online Classes: no
Percent Men: 34%
Percent Women: 66%

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Upcoming Events at Fisk University

The Wall

Future spot for testimonials, comments, pictures, video

Majors Offered

Art

Biology

Business Administration

Chemistry

Computer Science

English

History

Mathematics

Music/Music Education

Nursing

Physics

Political Science

Psychology

Sociology

Spanish

Special Education

Pre-Professional Programs

Unique Programs

Sports & Extra Curricular Activities

Choral Groups, Dance, Jazz Band, Radio Station, Sororities, Student Newspaper

College History

Barely six months after the end of the Civil War, and just two years after the Emancipation Proclamation, three men — John Ogden, the Reverend Erastus Milo Cravath, and the Reverend Edward P. Smith — established the Fisk School in Nashville, named in honor of General Clinton B. Fisk of the Tennessee Freedmens Bureau, who provided the new institution with facilities in former Union Army barracks near the present site of Nashvilles Union Station. In these facilities Fisk convened its first classes on January 9, 1866. The first students ranged in age from seven to seventy, but shared common experiences of slavery and poverty — and an extraordinary thirst for learning.

The work of Fisks founders was sponsored by the American Missionary Association — later part of the United Church of Christ, with which Fisk retains an affiliation today. Ogden, Cravath, and Smith, along with others in their movement, shared a dream of an educational institution that would be open to all, regardless of race, and that would measure itself by the highest standards, not of Negro education, but of American education at its best. Their dream was incorporated as Fisk University on August 22, 1867.