Birmingham City University the highest intake of international students in the Birmingham area. For 2009 entry, applications rose by 37 per cent from 2008, one of the biggest increases at any university. There are almost six applications per place and course entry requirements range from 200 to 300 UCAS points for all honours programmes; other courses' requirements vary. Birmingham City University Students' Union is located at the City Centre Campus. There are several reception offices located at all the university's campuses. It is affiliated with the National Union of Students, and all students are automatically members of the union. Student media comprises a
Student Organization for Black Unity black community, at which point its name was changed to the Youth Organization for Black Unity by Roderick D. Bush. Throughout North Carolina, under the Jim Crow laws, black colleges, including Spelman College and Howard University were created to provide an education to blacks that white colleges wouldn't accept. In the 1970s, in the wake of the Civil Rights Movement, there was a move to integrate people of other races into these schools. A student group named the Student Organization for Black Unity was created to advocate for the maintenance of the schools as black-only institutions and to promote a