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Clinton College

Rock Hill, South Carolina · Private · Four-year · Founded 1894

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.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1029 Crawford Rd, Rock Hill, SC 29730
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
217891
OPE id
00492300
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: 1029 CRAWFORD RD, ROCK HILL, SC, 29730. 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 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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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