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Miles College

School colors: Purple & gold

Miles College Brown Hall
2C2K Photography, 2023-08-08 23:24:32, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Fairfield, Alabama · Founded 1898 · Purple Marching Machine

Private · Four-year · ~1,200 students

www.miles.edu · official site

Founding

Miles College was founded in 1898. The college describes itself as a liberal arts institution in metropolitan Birmingham, inside the city limits of Fairfield, Alabama.

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

What the school says about itself

On the official record

Campus address
5500 Myron Massey Blvd, Fairfield, AL 35064-2621
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~1,200 students
Directory id
101675
OPE id
00102800
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
5500 Myron Massey Blvd, Fairfield, AL. 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 33.482442, -86.908751 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 101675. 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 Miles, Miles College. https://www.miles.edu/about-miles. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 1,151 total, Fall 2023 (1,151 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. Home, Miles College. https://www.miles.edu/. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. School colors: Purple & gold. Values as stated. Miles College, Wikipedia (revision 1373392367). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: 2C2K Photography, 2023-08-08 23:24:32, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Miles_College_Brown_Hall.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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