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FSU(Fayetteville State University)

School colors: Blue and white

Charles Waddell Chesnutt Library Fayetteville State Univ. NC
LTreadwell, 2021-09-02 12:47:49, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Fayetteville, North Carolina · Founded 1867

Public · Four-year · ~6,800 students

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.

What the school says about itself

Motto
Deeds Not WordsSource, read 2026-09-17.
On the record
  • FSU is the only school in NC with a GEOINT Certificate program accredited by the National Geo-Spatial Intelligence Agency. Source, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
1200 Murchison Rd, Fayetteville, NC 28301-4298
Control
Public
Students
~6,800 students
Directory id
198543
OPE id
00292800
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1200 Murchison Rd, Fayetteville, NC. 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 35.073641, -78.891696 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 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. Home, Fayetteville State University. https://www.uncfsu.edu/. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. Students: 6,847 total, Fall 2023 (5,845 undergraduate, 1,002 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.
  6. About FSU, Fayetteville State University. https://www.uncfsu.edu/about-fsu. Read 2026-09-17.
  7. School colors: Blue and white. Values as stated. Fayetteville State University, Wikipedia (revision 1368429169). Read 2026-09-16.
  8. Photograph: LTreadwell, 2021-09-02 12:47:49, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Charles_Waddell_Chesnutt_Library_Fayetteville_State_Univ._NC.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  9. 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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