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Fisk University

School colors: Gold and blue

WTN EVula 184, Fisk University
EVula, 2008-05-24, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Nashville, Tennessee · Founded 1866

Private · Four-year · ~1,000 students

www.fisk.edu · official site

Founding

Fisk University convened its first classes on January 9, 1866, and was incorporated as Fisk University on August 22, 1867, with the sponsorship of the American Missionary Association. Its Jubilee Singers set out from Nashville on October 6, 1871, carrying the entire contents of the university treasury to raise money to keep the school open.

Source: History, Fisk University, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
1000 17th Ave North, Nashville, TN 37208-4501
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~1,000 students
Directory id
220181
OPE id
00349000
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1000 17th Ave North, Nashville, TN. 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 36.167087, -86.804805 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder returned No Match for the address on file, which no longer decides placement.

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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 220181. 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. History, Fisk University. https://www.fisk.edu/about/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 1,005 total, Fall 2023 (950 undergraduate, 55 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: Gold and blue. Values as stated. Fisk University, Wikipedia (revision 1373283346). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: EVula, 2008-05-24, CC BY 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:WTN_EVula_184.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. 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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