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Dillard University

New Orleans, Louisiana · Private · Four-year · Founded 1930

www.dillard.edu · official site

Founding

Dillard University's newly formed board of trustees proposed a charter for the institution on June 6, 1930, naming it for James Hardy Dillard. It united predecessor schools that had been founded to educate African Americans after emancipation, among them Straight College, which had been Straight University until 1905, and New Orleans University.

Source: History and Traditions, Dillard University, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
2601 Gentilly Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70122
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
158802
OPE id
00200400
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: 2601 GENTILLY BLVD, NEW ORLEANS, LA, 70122. 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 158802. 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 and Traditions, Dillard University. https://www.dillard.edu/about/history-traditions/. 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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