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Albany State University

Albany, Georgia · Public · Four-year · Founded 1903

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.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
504 College Drive, Albany, GA 31705
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
138716
OPE id
00154400
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: 504 COLLEGE DR, ALBANY, GA, 31705. 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 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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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