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Alcorn State University

Alcorn State, Mississippi · Public · Four-year · Founded 1871

www.alcorn.edu · official site

Founding

Alcorn University was founded in 1871 through the efforts of the people of Mississippi to educate the descendants of formerly enslaved Africans. The state bought the campus of Oakland College, a Presbyterian school established in 1828, for $40,000 and named the new institution Alcorn University.

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

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1000 ASU Dr Ste 359, Alcorn State, MS 39096-7500
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
175342
OPE id
00239600
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 a near match, not an exact one (Census proposed: 1000 ASU DR, LORMAN, MS, 39096). 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 175342. 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, Alcorn State University. https://www.alcorn.edu/discover-alcorn/history/. 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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