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Edward Waters University

Jacksonville, Florida · Private · Four-year · Founded 1866

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.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1658 Kings Rd, Jacksonville, FL 32209
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
133526
OPE id
00147800
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: 1658 KINGS RD, JACKSONVILLE, FL, 32209. 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 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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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