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Fayetteville State University

Fayetteville, North Carolina · Public · Four-year · Founded 1867

www.uncfsu.edu · official site

Founding

Fayetteville State University began as the Howard School, established on November 29, 1867, by seven Black citizens of Fayetteville to educate Black children and named for General Oliver Otis Howard of the Freedmen's Bureau. In 1877 the North Carolina Senate ratified an act establishing a teacher training institution for Black students, which the school became.

Source: Our History, Fayetteville State University, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1200 Murchison Rd, Fayetteville, NC 28301-4298
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
198543
OPE id
00292800
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: 1200 MURCHISON RD, FAYETTEVILLE, NC, 28301. 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 198543. 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. Our History, Fayetteville State University. https://www.uncfsu.edu/about-fsu/our-history. 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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