[1] Branch returned to Virginia State College to teach; she stayed there for twenty years, and at the same time earned a BA (1922) and then an MA (1925) from the University of Chicago.
[1] After Virginia State College, Branch became a dean at Vashon High School in St Louis.
[2] With a successful recruitment strategy, aided by her ability to raise funds, she managed to grow enrollment from less than 150 in 1930 to 500.
In 1944, she assisted in establishing the United Negro College Fund (UNCF) and served as President of the Austine chapter.
[5] In 1935, Lyndon B. Johnson appointed her to the National Youth's Administration's Negro Advisory Board for Texas.