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Grambling(Grambling State University)

School colors: Black & gold

Grambling State University sign
Billy Hathorn, 2010-05-20, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Grambling, Louisiana · Founded 1901 · World Famed Tiger Marching Band

Public · Four-year · ~5,100 students

www.gram.edu · official site

Founding

Grambling State University opened on November 1, 1901, as the Colored Industrial and Agricultural School, founded by the North Louisiana Colored Agriculture Relief Association, a group of African American farmers organized in 1896. The school moved to its present site at 403 Main Street in Grambling in 1905.

Source: History, Grambling State University, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

On the official record

Campus address
403 Main Street, Grambling, LA 71245
Control
Public
Students
~5,100 students
Directory id
159009
OPE id
00200600
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
403 Main Street, Grambling, LA. 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 32.523797, -92.713245 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 159009. 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, Grambling State University. https://www.gram.edu/aboutus/history.php. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 5,114 total, Fall 2023 (4,279 undergraduate, 835 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. About Us, Grambling State University. https://www.gram.edu/aboutus/. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. School colors: Black & gold. Values as stated. Grambling State University, Wikipedia (revision 1368643081). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Billy Hathorn, 2010-05-20, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Grambling_State_University_sign_IMG_3645.JPG. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  8. 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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