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MBC(Morris Brown College)

School colors: Purple and black

Morris Brown College Stadium
MSGT Joseph Pittelli, U.S. Air Force, 1996-07-31, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Atlanta, Georgia · Founded 1881

Private · Four-year · ~340 students

www.morrisbrown.edu · official site

Founding

Morris Brown College traces its founding to a resolution introduced on January 5, 1881, at the African Methodist Episcopal Church's North Georgia Annual Conference at Big Bethel, calling for a school in Atlanta for Black boys and girls. The State of Georgia chartered Morris Brown College of the AME Church in May 1885.

Source: History, Morris Brown College, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

Motto
To God and TruthSource, read 2026-09-17.
Notable Alumni, as the school lists them
  • Sommore, Comedian
  • Donte Curry, Former NFL Player
  • James Alan McPherson, Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author
From Notable Alumni, Morris Brown College, read 2026-09-17. Names as the page lists them.

On the official record

Campus address
643 Martin Luther King Jr Drive NW, Atlanta, GA 30314-4140
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~340 students
Directory id
140571
OPE id
00158300
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
643 Martin Luther King Jr Drive NW, 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 33.753707, -84.407668 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 140571. 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, Morris Brown College. https://morrisbrown.edu/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. About MBC, Morris Brown College. https://morrisbrown.edu/about-mbc/. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. Students: 343 total, Fall 2023 (343 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.
  6. Notable Alumni, Morris Brown College. https://morrisbrown.edu/portfolio/notable-alumni/. Read 2026-09-17.
  7. School colors: Purple and black. Values shown are conventional approximations of the named colors. Morris Brown College, Wikipedia (revision 1374714056). Read 2026-09-16.
  8. Photograph: MSGT Joseph Pittelli, U.S. Air Force, 1996-07-31, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Morris_Brown_College_Stadium_(1996).JPEG. 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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