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Selma University

School colors: Blue and White

"Dinkins Memorial Chapel, Alabama Colored University, Selma, Ala." (NBY 6999)
Unknown author, Unknown date, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Selma, Alabama · Founded 1878

Private · Four-year · ~60 students

selmau.edu · official site

Founding

Selma University's first trustees were elected by the Alabama Baptist convention at a meeting in Mobile in 1874, and its first classes were held at Saint Phillips Street Baptist Church of Selma in 1878. The legislature incorporated the school in 1881 as the Alabama Baptist Normal and Theological School of Selma.

Source: About Us, Selma University, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
1501 Boynton St, Dinkins Hall, Selma, AL 36701
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~60 students
Directory id
102058
OPE id
04067300
Student aid
Not currently participating in Title IV
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Not on the list
Location
1501 Boynton St, Dinkins Hall, Selma, 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 32.420387, -87.032392 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder returned No Match 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 102058. 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. About Us, Selma University. https://www.selmau.edu/about-us. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 60 total, Fall 2023 (47 undergraduate, 13 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: Blue and White. Values shown are conventional approximations of the named colors. Selma University, Wikipedia (revision 1373112018). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: Unknown author, Unknown date, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22Dinkins_Memorial_Chapel,_Alabama_Colored_University,_Selma,_Ala.%22_(NBY_6999).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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