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Southern University at New Orleans

New Orleans, Louisiana · Public · Four-year · Founded 1956

www.suno.edu · official site

Founding

Southern University at New Orleans was founded in 1956 to provide higher education for African American students in the Gulf Coast region. It opened its doors in 1959 with just over 160 students.

Source: About SUNO, Southern University at New Orleans, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
6400 Press Drive, New Orleans, LA 70126
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
160630
OPE id
00202600
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: 6400 PRESS DR, NEW ORLEANS, LA, 70126. 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

  1. U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics, Directory information (HD2024), 2024-25 provisional data collection. Unit id 160630. 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. About SUNO, Southern University at New Orleans. https://www.suno.edu/page/about-suno. 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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