The Rise · HBCU
Shaw University
Raleigh, North Carolina · Private · Four-year · Founded 1865
www.shawu.edu · official site
Founding
Shaw University was founded as the Raleigh Theological Institute by the American Baptist Home Mission Society in 1865, and states that it was the first HBCU in the American South. It incorporated in 1875, opened Estey Hall for women students in 1873, and opened a law school in 1888.
Source: A History of Progress, Shaw University, read 2026-09-14.
As the Department of Education lists it
- Campus address
- 118 East South Street, Raleigh, NC 27601
- Control
- Private not-for-profit
- IPEDS unit id
- 199643
- OPE id
- 00296200
- 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: 118 E SOUTH ST, RALEIGH, NC, 27601. 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
- U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 199643. https://nces.ed.gov/ipeds/datacenter/data/HD2024.zip. File dated 2025-09-21.
- 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.
- A History of Progress, Shaw University. https://www.shawu.edu/meet-shaw/a-history-of-progress/. Read 2026-09-14.
- U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.
Machine-readable: /api/v1/hbcus/shaw-university · All HBCUs
These campuses have gathered generations. TheCookout is where the newBWS community gathers now. Pull up a plate.