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Oakwood University

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Oakwood University
Benjamin548 at English Wikipedia, 17 June 2008 (original upload date), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Huntsville, Alabama · Founded 1896

Private · Four-year · ~1,300 students

www2.oakwood.edu · official site

Founding

Oakwood University was founded by the Seventh-day Adventist Church in 1896 to educate recently freed African Americans of the South. It remains a Seventh-day Adventist institution in Huntsville, Alabama.

Source: Mission and History, Oakwood University, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

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

On the official record

Campus address
7000 Adventist Blvd NW, Huntsville, AL 35896
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~1,300 students
Directory id
101912
OPE id
00103300
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
7000 Adventist Blvd NW, Huntsville, AL. 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 34.756344, -86.652705 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 101912. 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. Mission and History, Oakwood University. https://oakwood.edu/our-story/mission-history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Mission and History, Oakwood University. https://oakwood.edu/our-story/mission-history/. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. Students: 1,319 total, Fall 2023 (1,279 undergraduate, 40 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. School colors: Blue & Gold. Values as stated. Oakwood University, Wikipedia (revision 1368440704). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Benjamin548 at English Wikipedia, 17 June 2008 (original upload date), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Oakwood_University.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  8. 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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