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Morehouse(Morehouse College)

School colors: Maroon and White

MLK statue, Morehouse College
Thomson200, 2016-06-11 12:59:53, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Atlanta, Georgia · Founded 1867

Private · Four-year · ~2,700 students

www.morehouse.edu · official site

Founding

Morehouse College began as the Augusta Institute, founded in 1867 in a church basement. In 1929 it entered the Atlanta University Affiliation with Spelman College and Atlanta University.

Source: Our History, Morehouse College, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
830 Westview Dr SW, Atlanta, GA 30314
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~2,700 students
Directory id
140553
OPE id
00158200
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
830 Westview Dr SW, Atlanta, GA. 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 33.745982, -84.414917 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 140553. 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, Morehouse College. https://morehouse.edu/about/our-history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 2,738 total, Fall 2023 (2,738 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. School colors: Maroon and White. Values as stated. Morehouse College, Wikipedia (revision 1373433826). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: Thomson200, 2016-06-11 12:59:53, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MLK_statue,_Morehouse_College.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. 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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