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(AP) “Three Atlanta University Center schools that have been traditional mainstays on Black Enterprise’s list of top 50 colleges have all fallen in the magazine’s 2006 poll – including the all-male Morehouse College, which dropped from first on the list to 45th.

All-female Spelman College fell from second to fifth, and Clark Atlanta University disappeared from the list altogether for the first time since 1999. Black Enterprise compiles the list every two years, and this year, there were several changes in the process, according to the magazine, which published the list in its September issue.

Criteria that factored into the 2006 rankings included the school’s academic and social environments, the number of black undergraduate students as a percentage of total undergraduates, and the school’s previous ranking. The most weight was given to graduation rate.

“When all is said and done, that’s the bottom line,” Black Enterprise editor-in-chief Alfred A. Edmond Jr., said.

Edmond emphasized that…” (more)