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Arkansas Baptist College

School colors: Purple & White

Main Building, Arkansas Baptist College
Valis55, 2015-07-11 14:34:01, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Little Rock, Arkansas · Founded 1884 · Stampede of Sound

Private · Four-year · ~370 students

www.arkansasbaptist.edu · official site

Founding

Arkansas Baptist College was founded in 1884 as the Minister's Institute. The college states that it is the only historically Black Baptist school west of the Mississippi River.

Source: History, Arkansas Baptist College, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

On the official record

Campus address
1600 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Little Rock, AR 72202-6068
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~370 students
Directory id
106306
OPE id
00108700
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1600 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Little Rock, AR. 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 34.734751, -92.290555 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 106306. 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, Arkansas Baptist College. https://www.arkansasbaptist.edu/about/history. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 373 total, Fall 2023 (373 undergraduate, 0 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. Fine Arts, Arkansas Baptist College. https://www.arkansasbaptist.edu/academics/fine-arts. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. School colors: Purple & White. Values as stated. Arkansas Baptist College, Wikipedia (revision 1372291648). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Valis55, 2015-07-11 14:34:01, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Main_Building,_Arkansas_Baptist_College.JPG. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  8. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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