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Johnson C Smith University
Charlotte, North Carolina · Private · Four-year · Founded 1867
www.jcsu.edu · official site
Founding
Johnson C. Smith University was founded in 1867 as the Freedmen's College of North Carolina. The North Carolina State Board of Education recognized it as a four-year college in 1924, and it was a founding member of the United Negro College Fund in 1944.
Source: Our History, Johnson C. Smith University, read 2026-09-14.
As the Department of Education lists it
- Campus address
- 100 Beatties Ford Road, Charlotte, NC 28216-5398
- Control
- Private not-for-profit
- IPEDS unit id
- 198756
- OPE id
- 00293600
- 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: 100 BEATTIES FORD RD, CHARLOTTE, NC, 28216. 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 198756. 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.
- Our History, Johnson C. Smith University. https://www.jcsu.edu/who-we-are/our-history. 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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