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Rust College

School colors: Royal Blue & White

Rust College
Fredlyfish4, 2014-09-14 16:29:19, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Holly Springs, Mississippi · Founded 1866

Private · Four-year · ~430 students

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.

On the official record

Campus address
150 Rust Avenue, Holly Springs, MS 38635
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~430 students
Directory id
176318
OPE id
00243300
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
150 Rust Avenue, Holly Springs, MS. 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 34.776862, -89.446999 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 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. Students: 429 total, Fall 2023 (429 undergraduate, 0 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. School colors: Royal Blue & White. Values as stated. Rust College, Wikipedia (revision 1374941474). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: Fredlyfish4, 2014-09-14 16:29:19, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Rust_College.JPG. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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