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Shorter(Shorter College)

School colors: Dark blue, light blue and gold

Shorter University, Argenta, Arkansas
Historic photograph. Unknown, book in which the image is published in was edited by W. N. Hartshorn and George W. Penniman., 1910, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

N Little Rock, Arkansas · Founded 1886

Private · Two-year · ~290 students

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.

On the official record

Campus address
604 Locust St, N Little Rock, AR 72114
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~290 students
Directory id
107840
OPE id
00110500
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
604 Locust St, N Little Rock, AR. 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 34.75933, -92.261331 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder returned Non Exact 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 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. Students: 290 total, Fall 2023 (290 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: Dark blue, light blue and gold. Values as stated. Shorter College (Arkansas), Wikipedia (revision 1370915415). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: Unknown, book in which the image is published in was edited by W. N. Hartshorn and George W. Penniman., 1910, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Shorter_University,_Argenta,_Arkansas.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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