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Rust College

Holly Springs, Mississippi · Private · Four-year · Founded 1866

www.rustcollege.edu · official site

Founding

Rust College was founded in 1866 by the Freedman's Aid Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church. In 1870 the school was chartered as Shaw University, a name it later changed to Rust College.

Source: History, Rust College, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
150 Rust Avenue, Holly Springs, MS 38635
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
176318
OPE id
00243300
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: 150 RUST AVE, HOLLY SPRINGS, MS, 38635. 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 176318. 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. History, Rust College. https://rustcollege.edu/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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