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Livingstone College
Salisbury, North Carolina · Private · Four-year · Founded 1879
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.
As the Department of Education lists it
- Campus address
- 701 W Monroe St, Salisbury, NC 28144
- Control
- Private not-for-profit
- IPEDS unit id
- 198862
- OPE id
- 00294200
- 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 a near match, not an exact one (Census proposed: 701 E MONROE ST, SALISBURY, NC, 28144). 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
- 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.
- 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.
- About Livingstone College. https://livingstone.edu/about-livingstone-college/. 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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