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Southern University and A & M College

Baton Rouge, Louisiana · Public · Four-year · Founded 1880

www.subr.edu · official site

Founding

Southern University opened its doors in New Orleans in 1880 under Legislative Act 87, with a $10,000 appropriation and 12 students, after P. B. S. Pinchback, T. T. Allain, T. B. Stamps, and Henry Demas presented the vision at the Louisiana constitutional convention. Legislative Act 118 relocated the university in 1912 to Scotlandville, and the new Southern University opened there, in Baton Rouge, in 1914 with a share of a $50,000 land-grant appropriation.

Source: Southern University History, Southern University and A&M College, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
P.O. Box 9374, Harding Blvd, Baton Rouge, LA 70813
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
160621
OPE id
00202500
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 no match. 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 160621. 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. Southern University History, Southern University and A&M College. https://www.subr.edu/page/southern-university-history. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

Machine-readable: /api/v1/hbcus/southern-university-and-a-and-m-college · All HBCUs

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