for low-income students is 84%.
Additionally, a new partnership with Wake County Public Schools beginning in August 2025 will have high school students from their two (single gender) leadership academies, WYWLA and WYMLA, attending on their campus. The two schools will have their Juniors and Seniors participating in dual enrollment at their respective schools and Shaw. This is expected to bring some 75-100 students on campus. Both schools had previously been partnered with another nearby HBCU, St. Augustine's.
=== Greek organizations ===
Shaw has eight of the nine National Pan-Hellenic Council organizations on campus.
=== Student organizations ===
Shaw University has a range of student organizations. The Student Government Association (SGA) is responsible for advising all other organization and representing the interests of other student organizations to university administration. Shaw University's quiz bowl team competed in the national Honda Campus All-Star Challenge tournament in 2015.
=== Marching band …
