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Huston-Tillotson University

Austin, Texas · Private · Four-year · Founded 1875

www.htu.edu · official site

Founding

Huston-Tillotson University was founded in 1875. It states that it is Austin's first institution of higher education and the city's only historically Black college or university.

Source: Huston-Tillotson University Ranked #1 HBCU in Texas by Niche, Huston-Tillotson University, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
900 Chicon St, Austin, TX 78702-2795
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
225575
OPE id
00357700
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: 900 CHICON ST, AUSTIN, TX, 78702. 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

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 225575. 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. Huston-Tillotson University Ranked #1 HBCU in Texas by Niche, Huston-Tillotson University. https://htu.edu/huston-tillotson-university-ranked-1-hbcu-in-texas-9-in-the-nation-by-niche/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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