Dillard University
School colors: Royal blue & white
New Orleans, Louisiana · Founded 1930 · Bleu Devil
Private · Four-year · ~1,100 students
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.
What the school says about itself
- Mascot
- Bleu DevilSource, read 2026-09-17.
- Distinguished Alumni, as the school lists them
- Floyd E. Wilson Jr., First Black Councilmember, Prince George County
- Carl Stewart, First Black Chief Judge, 5th Circuit Court of Appeals
- P.B.S. Pinchback, First Black Governor of Louisiana
- Revius O. Ortique Jr., First Black Louisiana Supreme Court Justice
- Alice Dunbar Nelson, Poet and Social Justice advocate
- Brenda Marie Osbey, Louisiana Poet Laureate 2005-2007
- Jericho Brown, Pulitzer Prize Winner, Poetry
- Garrett Morris, Actor/Comedian
- Ellis Marsalis Jr., Jazz Composer and Educator
- Sheila Tlou, Former Minister of Health, Botswana
- Joyce Roché, Former CEO, Girls Inc.
- Glenda McNeal, Senior Vice President, Global Partnerships
On the official record
- Campus address
- 2601 Gentilly Blvd, New Orleans, LA 70122
- Control
- Private not-for-profit
- Students
- ~1,100 students
- Directory id
- 158802
- OPE id
- 00200400
- Student aid
- Takes part in Title IV student aid
- Title III Part B list, FY 2026
- Listed
- Location
- 2601 Gentilly Blvd, New Orleans, LA. See it on the Ledger map.
Where this location comes from
Campus 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 29.996587, -90.06464 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder also matched this address exactly on 2026-09-14.
Sources
- 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.
- 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.
- History and Traditions, Dillard University. https://www.dillard.edu/about/history-traditions/. Read 2026-09-14.
- Athletics, Dillard University. https://www.dillard.edu/du-experience/athletics/. Read 2026-09-17.
- Students: 1,122 total, Fall 2023 (1,117 undergraduate, 5 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.
- Distinguished Alumni, Dillard University. https://www.dillard.edu/distinguished-alumni/. Read 2026-09-17.
- School colors: Royal blue & white. Values as stated. Dillard University, Wikipedia (revision 1368429421). Read 2026-09-16.
- Photograph: Infrogmation of New Orleans, 2006-01-03, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:DillardFrontJan06.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
- U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.
Enrollment is the official 2023 count, rounded. Tap a school for its source.
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