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Bennett College

School colors: Royal blue and white

Bennett College from Gorrell
Nyttend, Taken on 21 April 2018, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Greensboro, North Carolina · Founded 1873

Private · Four-year · ~200 students

www.bennett.edu · official site

Founding

Bennett College began in 1873 in the unplastered basement of the Warnersville Methodist Episcopal Church in Greensboro. In 1926 the Women's Home Missionary Society joined with the church's Board of Education to make the formerly co-educational college a college for women.

Source: History, Bennett College, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
900 E Washington St, Greensboro, NC 27401-3239
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~200 students
Directory id
197993
OPE id
00291100
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
900 E Washington St, Greensboro, NC. 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 36.067531, -79.77998 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 197993. 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, Bennett College. https://www.bennett.edu/about/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 195 total, Fall 2023 (195 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. School colors: Royal blue and white. Values as stated. Bennett College, Wikipedia (revision 1373585174). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: Nyttend, Taken on 21 April 2018, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bennett_College_from_Gorrell.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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