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NCCU(North Carolina Central University)

School colors: Maroon and gray

NCCU campus grounds
RDUpedia, 2012-10-09, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Durham, North Carolina · Founded 1910

Public · Four-year · ~8,000 students

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.

What the school says about itself

On the record
  • We made the commitment as the nation's first public liberal arts institution for African American students. Source, read 2026-09-17.
  • NCCU was the first campus in the University of North Carolina System to require community service for graduation, and we have gained national recognition from the Carnegie Foundation as a community-engaged university. Source, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
1801 Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC 27707
Control
Public
Students
~8,000 students
Directory id
199157
OPE id
00295000
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1801 Fayetteville Street, Durham, NC. 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 35.974237, -78.898602 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 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. Students: 7,965 total, Fall 2023 (5,973 undergraduate, 1,992 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.
  5. Home, North Carolina Central University. https://www.nccu.edu/. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. Quick Facts, North Carolina Central University. https://www.nccu.edu/nccu-quick-facts. Read 2026-09-17.
  7. School colors: Maroon and gray. Values as stated. North Carolina Central University, Wikipedia (revision 1374064893). Read 2026-09-16.
  8. Photograph: RDUpedia, 2012-10-09, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:NCCU_campus_grounds.JPG. 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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