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Morgan State University

School colors: Blue and orange

Morgan State University - Holmes Hall
Stephreef, Taken on 19 May 2009, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Baltimore, Maryland · Founded 1867 · Bear

Public · Four-year · ~9,800 students

www.morgan.edu · official site

Founding

Morgan State University was founded in 1867. It is a Carnegie-classified high research institution offering more than 150 academic programs from the baccalaureate to the doctorate.

Source: About, Morgan State University, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

Mascot
BearSource, read 2026-09-17.
On the record
  • Morgan is the only HBCU in Maryland to offer an MA in History, giving students a distinct academic and cultural experience. Source, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD 21251-0001
Control
Public
Students
~9,800 students
Directory id
163453
OPE id
00208300
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1700 East Cold Spring Lane, Baltimore, MD. 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 39.344161, -76.585565 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder returned No Match 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 163453. 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, Morgan State University. https://www.morgan.edu/about. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. History and Heraldry, Bear Battalion, Morgan State University. https://www.morgan.edu/morgan-state-coppin-state-university-army-rotc-(the-bear-battalion)/history-and-heraldry. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. Students: 9,808 total, Fall 2023 (8,300 undergraduate, 1,508 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.
  6. MA in History, Morgan State University. https://www.morgan.edu/grad-history. Read 2026-09-17.
  7. School colors: Blue and orange. Values as stated. Morgan State University, Wikipedia (revision 1374515670). Read 2026-09-16.
  8. Photograph: Stephreef, Taken on 19 May 2009, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morgan_State_University_-_Holmes_Hall.JPG. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  9. 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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