Booker T. Washington went to Hampton University when it was Hampton Institute, and there is a statue of him on campus pointing to an unknown place or thing.
Some professors at Hampton allow you to do your work online instead of coming to class.
There is a myth that if a student walks across Ogden circle (a circle of grass across from Robert C. Ogden auditorium thought to be an ancient Indian burial ground), the student won’t graduate on time or may not graduate at all from Hampton University.
Black Enterprise magazine lists HU as number three in leading colleges and universities for African American students.
Black Issues in Higher Education ranks HU in the top 10 for graduating African Americans with degrees in biology, business management, communications, English, journalism, and psychology.
Hampton University was founded in 1868, guided by the mottos, “Education for life” and “Learning by doing.”
Hampton University has a Virginia Beach campus.
Hampton University has its own history museum.
After the Civil War, a normal school (“normal” meaning to establish standards or norms while educating teachers) was formalized in 1868, with former Union Brigadier General Samuel C. Armstrong (1839–1893) as its first principal.