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Shelton State(Shelton State Community College)

School colors: Green and Emerald

Tuscaloosa, Alabama · Founded 1952

Public · Two-year · ~4,500 students

www.sheltonstate.edu · official site

Founding

Shelton State Community College was established by resolution of the Alabama State Board of Education on January 1, 1979, combining Shelton State Technical College, established in 1952, with the Tuscaloosa branch of Brewer State Junior College. Its Fredd Campus was created by the state legislature in 1963 as the Tuscaloosa State Trade School.

Source: History, Shelton State Community College, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
9500 Old Greensboro Rd, Tuscaloosa, AL 35405-8522
Control
Public
Students
~4,500 students
Directory id
102067
OPE id
00569100
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
9500 Old Greensboro Rd, Tuscaloosa, 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 33.120531, -87.56148 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 102067. 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, Shelton State Community College. https://www.sheltonstate.edu/about-us/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 4,536 total, Fall 2023 (4,536 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: Green and Emerald. Values as stated. Shelton State Community College, Wikipedia (revision 1359867468). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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