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Langston University

Langston, Oklahoma · Public · Four-year · Founded 1897

www.langston.edu · official site

Founding

Langston University was founded as a land-grant college under the Morrill Act of 1890 and established by House Bill 151 on March 12, 1897, as the Colored Agricultural and Normal University. Instruction began on September 3, 1898, in a Presbyterian church in Langston with an initial budget of $5,000.

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

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
701 Sammy Davis Jr. Drive, Langston, OK 73050
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
207209
OPE id
00315700
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Not placed on the map: the Census Bureau returned no match. Held on 2026-09-14 until a person resolves the address; no other geocoder was consulted.

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 207209. 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, Langston University. https://langston.edu/about/history/. 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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