Overall, the academic rigor is often watered down to make the students feel good about themselves.
Instead of creating really innovative majors and areas of expertise and necessity for black students ( Health/Fitness, Music/Sports Management & Small Business Entrepreneurship) we just chase after what white schools are doing or recycle outdated black studies curriculums.
I am sure the kids you know have jobs but the kids I know are in jobs that anyone from a community college can do.
I went to both (not a top 5 HBCU) so I saw first hand what our HBCU taught us to think about. I felt like I was ten years behind when I went to the PWI. But I had great self esteem, for whatever that is worth