Grambling State University
Grambling, Louisiana · Public · Four-year · Founded 1901
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.
As the Department of Education lists it
- Campus address
- 403 Main Street, Grambling, LA 71245
- Control
- Public
- IPEDS unit id
- 159009
- OPE id
- 00200600
- 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: 403 MAIN ST, GRAMBLING, LA, 71245. 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
- 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.
- 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.
- History, Grambling State University. https://www.gram.edu/aboutus/history.php. Read 2026-09-14.
- U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.
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