Harris Stowe State University is a historically black, public university located in midtown St. Louis, in the U.S. state of Missouri. The University is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund. The fully accredited four-year institution offers 31 majors, minors and certificate programs in education, business and arts & sciences.

Harris-Stowe ranked No. 1 in the state of Missouri and No. 47 in the nation in granting degrees in mathematics and statistics to African-Americans according to Missouri Department of Higher Education and Diverse: Issues in Higher Education, a newsmagazine that has ranked institutions conferring the most degrees to minority students for the past 30 years.