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LOC(Le Moyne-Owen College)

School colors: Purple and Gold

Campus of LeMoyne-Owen College
Dclemens1971, 2026-05-21 14:48:30, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Memphis, Tennessee · Founded 1862

Private · Four-year · ~650 students

www.loc.edu · official site

Founding

LeMoyne-Owen College was founded at Camp Shiloh in 1862 as Lincoln Chapel, an elementary school opened by the American Missionary Association to educate freedmen and people who had escaped enslavement. It became a junior college in 1924 and a four-year college in 1930, and LeMoyne merged with Owen College to form LeMoyne-Owen College in 1968.

Source: About, LeMoyne-Owen College, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

On the record
  • emphasized its distinction as the nation's 5th oldest and Memphis' only Historically Black College and University Source, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
807 Walker Ave, Memphis, TN 38126-6595
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~650 students
Directory id
220604
OPE id
00350100
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
807 Walker Ave, Memphis, TN. 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 35.118641, -90.034101 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 220604. 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, LeMoyne-Owen College. https://loc.edu/about/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 646 total, Fall 2023 (646 undergraduate, 0 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. About, LeMoyne-Owen College. https://loc.edu/about/. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. School colors: Purple and Gold. Values as stated. LeMoyne-Owen College, Wikipedia (revision 1373475431). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Dclemens1971, 2026-05-21 14:48:30, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Campus_of_LeMoyne%E2%80%93Owen_College_07.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  8. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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