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Shorter College

N Little Rock, Arkansas · Private · Two-year · Founded 1886

www.shortercollege.edu · official site

Founding

Shorter College was founded by the African Methodist Episcopal Church in 1886 to meet the educational needs of recently freed people. Its history page records that the school moved to Arkadelphia, Arkansas, in 1888 and opened its fifth academic year there in 1891.

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

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
604 Locust St, N Little Rock, AR 72114
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
107840
OPE id
00110500
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Not placed on the map: the Census Bureau returned a near match, not an exact one (Census proposed: 604 N LOCUST ST, N LITTLE ROCK, AR, 72114). Held on 2026-09-14 until a person resolves the address; no other geocoder was consulted.

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 107840. 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. Shorter College History, Shorter College. https://shortercollege.edu/about-us/shorter-college-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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