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Alabama A & M University

Normal, Alabama · Public · Four-year · Founded 1875

www.aamu.edu · official site

Founding

Alabama A&M University was founded in 1875 by William Hooper Councill, a former slave, and the university states its founding year as 1875. It describes itself as a historically Black institution and a traditional 1890 land-grant institution in Huntsville, Alabama.

Source: About AAMU, Alabama A&M University, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
4900 Meridian Street, Normal, AL 35762
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
100654
OPE id
00100200
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Not placed on the map: the Census Bureau returned no match. Held on 2026-09-14 until a person resolves the address; no other geocoder was consulted.

No enrollment figure is published on this page. The Ledger prints one only with a dated NCES citation, and none is attached to this record.

Sources

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 100654. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
  2. U.S. Department of Education, Office of Postsecondary Education. Higher Education Programs Eligibility Matrix, sheet 'HBCU', dated 2026-06-08. https://www.ed.gov/media/document/fy-2026-higher-education-programs-eligibility-matrix-june-8-2026-114185.xlsx.
  3. About AAMU, Alabama A&M University. https://www.aamu.edu/about/index.html. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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