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Southern University Law Center

Baton Rouge, Louisiana · Public · Four-year · Founded 1947

www.sulc.edu · official site

Founding

The Southern University Law School opened in September 1947 to provide legal education for African American students. It operates today as the Southern University Law Center in Baton Rouge.

Source: About, Southern University Law Center, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
No street address in the directory file
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
440916
OPE id
00202500
Federal student aid
Branch campus of a Title IV participating institution
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Not on the list
On the map
Not placed on the map: the directory file carries no street address. 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 440916. 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, Southern University Law Center. https://www.sulc.edu/page/about. 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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