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North Carolina Central University

Durham, North Carolina · Public · Four-year · Founded 1910

www.nccu.edu · official site

Founding

North Carolina Central University was chartered in 1909 as the National Religious Training School and Chautauqua for the Colored Race and founded in 1910 by James E. Shepard. The State of North Carolina purchased it in 1923 and renamed it the Durham State Normal School for Negroes, and the legislature granted university status under the present name in 1969.

Source: NCCU Celebrates 110 Years, North Carolina Central University, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
1801 Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC 27707
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
199157
OPE id
00295000
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Not placed on the map: the Census Bureau returned a near match, not an exact one (Census proposed: 1801 FAYETTEVILLE RD, DURHAM, NC, 27707). Held on 2026-09-14 until a person resolves the address; no other geocoder was consulted.

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 199157. 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. NCCU Celebrates 110 Years, North Carolina Central University. https://www.nccu.edu/weare110. 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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