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FAMU(Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University)

School colors: Orange(PANTONE 151 C) and Green(PANTONE 348 C)

90mm Antitank Gun in front of FAMU Howard Hall, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University
Michael Rivera, Taken on 28 September 2019, 12:09:48, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Tallahassee, Florida · Founded 1887

Public · Four-year · ~9,300 students

www.famu.edu · official site

Founding

Florida A&M University was founded on October 3, 1887, after the Florida legislature passed the bill that created it. The university's history opens its founding account with Thomas Van Renssaler Gibbs, a Duval County educator elected to the legislature in 1884.

Source: History, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
1500 S Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Tallahassee, FL 32307
Control
Public
Students
~9,300 students
Directory id
133650
OPE id
00148000
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1500 S Martin Luther King Jr Blvd, Tallahassee, 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 30.428504, -84.290226 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 133650. 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, Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University. https://www.famu.edu/about-famu/history/index.php. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 9,265 total, Fall 2023 (7,796 undergraduate, 1,469 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: Orange(PANTONE 151 C) and Green(PANTONE 348 C). Values as stated. Florida A&M University, Wikipedia (revision 1373284626). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: Michael Rivera, Taken on 28 September 2019, 12:09:48, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:90mm_Antitank_Gun_in_front_of_FAMU_Howard_Hall.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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