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Edward Waters University

School colors: Purple, orange, white

Jax FL Waters College Admin Bldg02
Ebyabe, 2011-06-10 15:55:51, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Jacksonville, Florida · Founded 1866

Private · Four-year · ~1,200 students

www.ew.edu · official site

Founding

Edward Waters University was founded in 1866 by members of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. It states that it is Florida's first independent institution of higher learning and the state's first institution established to educate African Americans.

Source: Edward Waters University, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
1658 Kings Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32209
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~1,200 students
Directory id
133526
OPE id
00147800
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1658 Kings Rd, Jacksonville, FL. 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 30.34479, -81.684879 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder also matched this address exactly on 2026-09-14.

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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 133526. 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. Edward Waters University. https://www.ew.edu/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 1,175 total, Fall 2023 (1,113 undergraduate, 62 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. School colors: Purple, orange, white. Values shown are conventional approximations of the named colors. Edward Waters University, Wikipedia (revision 1373119977). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: Ebyabe, 2011-06-10 15:55:51, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Jax_FL_Waters_College_Admin_Bldg02.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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