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Allen University

Columbia, South Carolina · Private · Four-year · Founded 1870

www.allenuniversity.edu · official site

Founding

Allen University was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina under Bishop John M. Brown on July 29, 1870, on 150 acres purchased in Cokesbury. The school was first named Payne Institute in honor of Bishop Daniel A. Payne.

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

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1530 Harden Street, Columbia, SC 29204
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
217624
OPE id
00341700
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: 1530 HARDEN ST, COLUMBIA, SC, 29204. 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 217624. 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 Allen University. https://allenuniversity.edu/our-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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