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Arkansas Baptist College

Little Rock, Arkansas · Private · Four-year · Founded 1884

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.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1600 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Drive, Little Rock, AR 72202-6068
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
106306
OPE id
00108700
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: 1600 DR MARTIN LUTHER KING DR, LITTLE ROCK, AR, 72202. 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 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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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