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Howard University

School colors: Blue Red Gray

Howard University Washington DC - Founders Library
Derek E. Morton, 2017-08-16 17:21:18, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Washington, District of Columbia · Founded 1867

Private · Four-year · ~13,000 students

www.howard.edu · official site

Founding

Howard University has grown from a single-frame building in 1867 to a campus of more than 89 acres. Since 1867 it has awarded more than 100,000 degrees in the professions, arts, sciences and humanities.

Source: History, Howard University, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

Motto
Veritas et UtilitasTruth and ServiceSource, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
2400 Sixth St NW, Washington, DC 20059
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~13,000 students
Directory id
131520
OPE id
00144800
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
2400 Sixth St NW, Washington, DC. 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 38.922392, -77.018966 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 131520. 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, Howard University. https://howard.edu/about/history. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Howard at a Glance, Howard University. https://howard.edu/about/howard-glance. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. Students: 13,416 total, Fall 2023 (10,190 undergraduate, 3,226 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.
  6. School colors: Blue Red Gray. Values as stated. Howard University, Wikipedia (revision 1368429186). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Derek E. Morton, 2017-08-16 17:21:18, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Howard_University_Washington_DC_-_Founders_Library.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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