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Albany State University

School colors: Royal blue and old gold

President House, Albany State University
TRucks90, 2011-06, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Albany, Georgia · Founded 1903

Public · Four-year · ~6,500 students

www.asurams.edu · official site

Founding

Albany State University was founded in 1903, with Joseph Winthrop Holley as its first president. In 1917 the state of Georgia began funding the school and granted it two-year status.

Source: History of Albany State University, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
504 College Drive, Albany, GA 31705
Control
Public
Students
~6,500 students
Directory id
138716
OPE id
00154400
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
504 College Drive, Albany, GA. 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 31.56928, -84.141825 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder also matched this address exactly on 2026-09-14.

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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 138716. 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 of Albany State University. https://www.asurams.edu/history.php. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 6,544 total, Fall 2023 (6,018 undergraduate, 526 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.
  5. School colors: Royal blue and old gold. Values as stated. Albany State University, Wikipedia (revision 1375080190). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: TRucks90, 2011-06, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:President_House.JPG. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

Enrollment is the official 2023 count, rounded. Tap a school for its source.

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