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Livingstone College

School colors: Columbia blue and black

Livingstone College from Monroe St Salisbury NC
Ncpappy, Taken on 30 September 2012, 14:06:28, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Salisbury, North Carolina · Founded 1879

Private · Four-year · ~810 students

livingstone.edu · official site

Founding

Livingstone College was founded as Zion Wesley Institute in 1879 by a group of African Methodist Episcopal Zion ministers to train ministers in Concord, North Carolina. After three brief sessions the school re-opened in Salisbury in 1882.

Source: About Livingstone College, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
701 W Monroe St, Salisbury, NC 28144
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~810 students
Directory id
198862
OPE id
00294200
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
701 W Monroe St, Salisbury, NC. 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 35.670877, -80.483956 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder returned Non Exact for the address on file, which no longer decides placement.

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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 198862. 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 Livingstone College. https://livingstone.edu/about-livingstone-college/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 814 total, Fall 2023 (799 undergraduate, 15 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: Columbia blue and black. Values as stated. Livingstone College, Wikipedia (revision 1373482091). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: Ncpappy, Taken on 30 September 2012, 14:06:28, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Livingstone_College_from_Monroe_St_Salisbury_NC.JPG. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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