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JSU(Jackson State University)

School colors: Navy blue and white

JacksonCollege
Historic photograph. H. L. Morehouse, 1889, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Jackson, Mississippi · Founded 1877

Public · Four-year · ~6,600 students

www.jsums.edu · official site

Founding

Jackson State University was founded as Natchez Seminary in 1877 by the American Baptist Home Mission Society, established in Natchez, Mississippi, for the moral, religious and intellectual improvement of Christian leaders of the colored people of Mississippi and neighboring states. It is today a doctoral research university in Jackson.

Source: About JSU, Jackson State University, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
1400 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS 39217
Control
Public
Students
~6,600 students
Directory id
175856
OPE id
00241000
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1400 John R. Lynch Street, Jackson, MS. 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 32.296105, -90.207405 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 175856. 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. About JSU, Jackson State University. https://www.jsums.edu/about-jsu/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 6,564 total, Fall 2023 (4,769 undergraduate, 1,795 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. School colors: Navy blue and white. Values as stated. Jackson State University, Wikipedia (revision 1371498484). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: H. L. Morehouse, 1889, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:JacksonCollege.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. 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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