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Morris College

Sumter, South Carolina · Private · Four-year · Founded 1908

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.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
100 West College Street, Sumter, SC 29150-3599
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
218399
OPE id
00343900
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Placed on the Ledger map by an exact match from the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder on 2026-09-14: 100 W COLLEGE ST, SUMTER, SC, 29150. See it on the Ledger map.

No enrollment figure is published on this page. The Ledger prints one only with a dated NCES citation, and none is attached to this record.

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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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