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Alabama State University

Montgomery, Alabama · Public · Four-year · Founded 1867

www.alasu.edu · official site

Founding

Alabama State University traces its origin to 1867, when the founders it calls the Marion Nine incorporated the Lincoln School of Marion. The institution took the name Alabama State University in 1969.

Source: History and Tradition, Alabama State University, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
915 S Jackson Street, Montgomery, AL 36104-0271
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
100724
OPE id
00100500
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Placed on the Ledger map by an exact match from the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder on 2026-09-14: 915 S JACKSON ST, MONTGOMERY, AL, 36104. See it on the Ledger map.

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 100724. 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. History and Tradition, Alabama State University. https://www.alasu.edu/about/history-tradition.php. 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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