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Delaware State(Delaware State University)

School colors: Columbia blue and cherry red

Delaware State University Wellness Center
Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture, 2010-10-21 09:28:06, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Dover, Delaware · Founded 1891

Public · Four-year · ~5,800 students

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.

What the school says about itself

On the record
  • Founded in 1891 as the State College for Colored Students, DSU is proud of our heritage as one of the country's first land-grant educational institutions. Source, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
1200 N. Dupont Highway, Dover, DE 19901
Control
Public
Students
~5,800 students
Directory id
130934
OPE id
00142800
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1200 N. Dupont Highway, Dover, DE. 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 39.187173, -75.54053 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder returned Non Exact for the address on file, which no longer decides placement.

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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 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. Students: 5,828 total, Fall 2023 (4,941 undergraduate, 887 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. About, Delaware State University. https://www.desu.edu/about. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. School colors: Columbia blue and cherry red. Values as stated. Delaware State University, Wikipedia (revision 1368439762). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Holzman Moss Bottino Architecture, 2010-10-21 09:28:06, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Delaware_State_University_Wellness_Center.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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