Fort Valley State University
Fort Valley, Georgia · Public · Four-year · Founded 1895
www.fvsu.edu · official site
Founding
Fort Valley State University dates from November 6, 1895, when eighteen men, at least half of them formerly enslaved, petitioned the Superior Court of Houston County for a charter for the Fort Valley High and Industrial School. The court incorporated the school on January 6, 1896.
Source: Key Dates, Fort Valley State University, read 2026-09-14.
As the Department of Education lists it
- Campus address
- 1005 State University Dr, Fort Valley, GA 31030-4313
- Control
- Public
- IPEDS unit id
- 139719
- OPE id
- 00156600
- Federal student aid
- Participates in Title IV federal student aid
- Title III Part B list, FY 2026
- Listed
- On the map
- Not placed on the map: the Census Bureau returned no match. Held on 2026-09-14 until a person resolves the address; no other geocoder was consulted.
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
- U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 139719. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
- 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.
- Key Dates, Fort Valley State University. https://www.fvsu.edu/about-fvsu/key-dates. Read 2026-09-14.
- U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.
Machine-readable: /api/v1/hbcus/fort-valley-state-university · All HBCUs
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