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Delaware State University

Dover, Delaware · Public · Four-year · Founded 1891

www.desu.edu · official site

Founding

Delaware State University was founded in 1891 as the State College for Colored Students. The university counts itself among the country's first land-grant institutions.

Source: About, Delaware State University, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1200 N. Dupont Highway, Dover, DE 19901
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
130934
OPE id
00142800
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Not placed on the map: the Census Bureau returned a near match, not an exact one (Census proposed: 1200 DUPONT HWY, DOVER, DE, 19901). Held on 2026-09-14 until a person resolves the address; no other geocoder was consulted.

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 130934. 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. About, Delaware State University. https://www.desu.edu/about. 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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