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MSM(Morehouse School of Medicine)

Morehouse School of Medicine in Atlanta, Georgia
Tyler Lahti, 2022-01-23, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Atlanta, Georgia · Founded 1975

Private · Four-year · ~940 students

www.msm.edu · official site

Founding

Morehouse School of Medicine was founded in 1975 as the Medical Education Program at Morehouse College. It became an independently chartered institution in 1981.

Source: About Us, Morehouse School of Medicine, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
720 Westview Drive, S.W., Atlanta, GA 30310
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~940 students
Directory id
140562
OPE id
02482100
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
720 Westview Drive, S.W., 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 33.742888, -84.41186 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 140562. 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 Us, Morehouse School of Medicine. https://www.msm.edu/about_us/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 935 total, Fall 2023 (0 undergraduate, 935 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. Photograph: Tyler Lahti, 2022-01-23, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morehouse_School_of_Medicine_in_Atlanta,_Georgia.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  6. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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