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Oakwood University

Huntsville, Alabama · Private · Four-year · Founded 1896

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.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
7000 Adventist Blvd NW, Huntsville, AL 35896
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
101912
OPE id
00103300
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: 7000 ADVENTIST BLVD NW, HUNTSVILLE, AL, 35896. 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 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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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