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Meharry Medical College

Nashville, Tennessee · Private · Four-year · Founded 1876

www.mmc.edu · official site

Founding

Meharry Medical College was founded in 1876 as the Medical Department of Central Tennessee College and was the first medical school in the South for African Americans. Its school of dentistry was founded in 1886 and its graduate school in 1938.

Source: History, Meharry Medical College, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1005 DB Todd Blvd., Nashville, TN 37208
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
220792
OPE id
00350600
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 220792. 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, Meharry Medical College. https://meharry.edu/meet-meharry/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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