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Lincoln University of Missouri(Lincoln University)

Young Hall, Lincoln University of Missouri
TheCatalyst31, 2017-12-27 16:45:20, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Jefferson City, Missouri · Founded 1866

Public · Four-year · ~1,800 students

www.lincolnu.edu · official site

Founding

Lincoln University was founded by the soldiers and officers of the 62nd and 65th United States Colored Infantry regiments, who formally established Lincoln Institute on January 14, 1866. The school opened on September 17, 1866, to a first class of two students in an old frame building in Jefferson City.

Source: Our History, Lincoln University of Missouri, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
820 Chestnut Street, Jefferson City, MO 65101
Control
Public
Students
~1,800 students
Directory id
177940
OPE id
00247900
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
820 Chestnut Street, Jefferson City, MO. 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 38.564431, -92.166724 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 177940. 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. Our History, Lincoln University of Missouri. https://www.lincolnu.edu/about-lincoln/our-history.html. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 1,799 total, Fall 2023 (1,707 undergraduate, 92 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. Photograph: TheCatalyst31, 2017-12-27 16:45:20, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Young_Hall,_Lincoln_University_of_Missouri.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  6. 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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