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Clinton(Clinton College)

School colors: Black, gold, burgundy

Clinton Normal and Industrial Institute
Historic photograph. Unknown, book in which the image is published in was edited by W. N. Hartshorn and George W. Penniman., 1910, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Rock Hill, South Carolina · Founded 1894

Private · Four-year · ~110 students

www.clintoncollege.edu · official site

Founding

Clinton College was founded in 1894 as Clinton Institute by Presiding Elder Nero A. Crockett and Rev. W. M. Robinson, and named for Bishop Isom Caleb Clinton, the presiding bishop of the Palmetto Conference. It was incorporated as Clinton Normal and Industrial Institute on June 22, 1909, with authority to grant state teacher certificates.

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

What the school says about itself

On the record
  • This made Clinton one of the first historically black colleges in SC. Source, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
1029 Crawford Rd, Rock Hill, SC 29730
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~110 students
Directory id
217891
OPE id
00492300
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1029 Crawford Rd, Rock Hill, SC. 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 34.913721, -81.043469 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 217891. 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. Clinton College History. https://www.clintoncollege.edu/about/clinton-college-history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 106 total, Fall 2023 (106 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. Clinton College History, Clinton College. https://www.clintoncollege.edu/about/clinton-college-history/. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. School colors: Black, gold, burgundy. Values as stated. Clinton College (South Carolina), Wikipedia (revision 1368440416). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Unknown, book in which the image is published in was edited by W. N. Hartshorn and George W. Penniman., 1910, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Clinton_Normal_and_Industrial_Institute.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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