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Morris(Morris College)

School colors: Blue & Gold

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2C2K Photography, 2025-08-12 03:07:31, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Sumter, South Carolina · Founded 1908 · Morris Hornets

Private · Four-year · ~420 students

www.morris.edu · official site

Founding

Morris College was established in 1908 by the Baptist Educational, Missionary and Sunday School Convention of South Carolina, chartered by the state in 1877, and its founders were mostly men who had no formal education. E. M. Brawley served as its first president from 1908.

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

What the school says about itself

Motto
Enter to Learn. Depart to Serve.Source, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
100 West College Street, Sumter, SC 29150-3599
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~420 students
Directory id
218399
OPE id
00343900
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
100 West College Street, Sumter, SC. 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 33.938574, -80.346155 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 218399. 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 College. https://www.morris.edu/about-morris/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Home, Morris College. https://www.morris.edu/. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. Students: 421 total, Fall 2023 (421 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. Athletics, Morris College. https://www.morris.edu/athletics/. Read 2026-09-17.
  7. School colors: Blue & Gold. Values as stated. Morris College, Wikipedia (revision 1368459410). Read 2026-09-16.
  8. Photograph: 2C2K Photography, 2025-08-12 03:07:31, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:MorrisCollege-4.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  9. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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