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Southern University at Shreveport

Shreveport, Louisiana · Public · Two-year · Founded 1964

www.susla.edu · official site

Founding

Southern University at Shreveport was created by an act that Governor John McKeithen signed on June 27, 1964, and it opened for instruction on September 19, 1967. It held its first classes at its downtown Metro Center site in spring 1988.

Source: Historical Overview, Southern University at Shreveport, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
3050 Martin Luther King Dr, Shreveport, LA 71107
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
160649
OPE id
00768600
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: 3050 DR MARTIN LUTHER KING DR, SHREVEPORT, LA, 71107. 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 160649. 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. Historical Overview, Southern University at Shreveport. https://www.susla.edu/page/historical-overview. 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-at-shreveport · All HBCUs

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