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AAMU(Alabama A & M University)

School colors: Maroon and white

Alabama A&M Quad
Dtg84, Photo taken with personal camera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Normal, Alabama · Founded 1875 · Bulldog

Public · Four-year · ~6,600 students

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.

What the school says about itself

Mascot
BulldogSource, read 2026-09-17.
Motto
Service is SovereigntySource, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
4900 Meridian Street, Normal, AL 35762
Control
Public
Students
~6,600 students
Directory id
100654
OPE id
00100200
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
4900 Meridian Street, Normal, AL. See it on the Ledger map.
Where this location comes fromCampus location from IPEDS 2024-25This campus location comes from the federal IPEDS 2024-25 record, used as published, so the pin on the map is the campus.IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 collection, file dated 2025-09-21, retrieved 2026-09-14: coordinate 34.783368, -86.568502 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder returned No Match for the address on file, which no longer decides placement.

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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. About AAMU, Alabama A&M University. https://www.aamu.edu/about/index.html. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. AAMU at a Glance, Alabama A&M University. https://www.aamu.edu/about/aamu-at-a-glance.html. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. Students: 6,614 total, Fall 2023 (5,845 undergraduate, 769 graduate). IPEDS Fall Enrollment 2023, derived variables (DRVEF2023). https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/DRVEF2023.zip. File dated 2024-09-30, read 2026-09-17.
  7. School colors: Maroon and white. Values as stated. Alabama A&M Bulldogs and Lady Bulldogs, Wikipedia (revision 1360724782). Read 2026-09-16.
  8. Photograph: Dtg84, Photo taken with personal camera, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alabama_A%26M_Quad.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  9. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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