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North Carolina A & T State University

Greensboro, North Carolina · Public · Four-year · Founded 1891

Founding

North Carolina A&T State University was founded in 1891 and began its first session in 1893 with 37 students at Shaw University in Raleigh. It became a constituent institution of the University of North Carolina System in 1971.

Source: History and Traditions, North Carolina A&T State University, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address: 1601 E Market St, Greensboro, NC 27411
Control: Public
IPEDS unit id: 199102
OPE id: 00290500
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: 1601 E MARKET ST, GREENSBORO, NC, 27411. 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

U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 199102. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
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.
History and Traditions, North Carolina A&T State University. https://www.ncat.edu/about/history-and-traditions/index.php. Read 2026-09-14.
U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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