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Florida Memorial University

Miami Gardens, Florida · Private · Four-year · Founded 1879

www.fmuniv.edu · official site

Founding

Florida Memorial University began in 1879, when members of the Bethlehem Baptist Association founded the Florida Baptist Institute in Live Oak, Florida, as a college of instruction for ministers and children. Amid racial hostility, president Matthew Gilbert and staff left Live Oak for Jacksonville, where he founded the Florida Baptist Academy in the basement of Bethel Baptist Church with Sarah Ann Blocker as its main instructor.

Source: About FMU, Florida Memorial University, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
15800 NW 42 Avenue, Miami Gardens, FL 33054-6199
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
133979
OPE id
00148600
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: 15800 NW 42ND AVE, MIAMI GARDENS, FL, 33054. 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 133979. 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. About FMU, Florida Memorial University. https://www.fmuniv.edu/about-fmu/. 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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