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Harris-Stowe State University
School colors: Brown & Gold
Saint Louis, Missouri · Founded 1857
Public · Four-year · ~1,100 students
www.hssu.edu · official site
Founding
Harris-Stowe State University states its founding year as 1857. It has served the St. Louis region for more than 160 years.
Source: Harris-Stowe State University, read 2026-09-14.
On the official record
- Campus address
- 3026 Laclede Ave, Saint Louis, MO 63103-2136
- Control
- Public
- Students
- ~1,100 students
- Directory id
- 177551
- OPE id
- 00246600
- Student aid
- Takes part in Title IV student aid
- Title III Part B list, FY 2026
- Listed
- Location
- 3026 Laclede Ave, Saint Louis, MO. See it on the Ledger map.
Where this location comes from
Campus 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 38.631744, -90.224288 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder also matched this address exactly on 2026-09-14.
Sources
- U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 177551. 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.
- Harris-Stowe State University. https://www.hssu.edu/. Read 2026-09-14.
- Students: 1,098 total, Fall 2023 (1,098 undergraduate, 0 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.
- School colors: Brown & Gold. Values as stated. Harris-Stowe State University, Wikipedia (revision 1373376139). Read 2026-09-16.
- Photograph: LittleT889, 2017-03-08 09:47:53, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Harris-Stowe_State_University.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
- 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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