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Southern University Law Center

Baton Rouge, Louisiana · Founded 1947

Public · Four-year · ~910 students

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.

On the official record

Campus address
2 Roosevelt Steptoe Dr., Baton Rouge, LA 70813
Control
Public
Students
~910 students
Directory id
440916
OPE id
00202500
Student aid
Branch campus of a Title IV school
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Not on the list
Location
2 Roosevelt Steptoe Dr., Baton Rouge, LA. 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 30.523898, -91.194417 as published. Street line from Contact, Southern University Law Center, read 2026-09-16, because the directory file leaves it blank. The Census Bureau geocoder returned no-street-address 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 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. Students: 908 total, Fall 2023 (723 undergraduate, 185 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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

Enrollment is the official 2023 count, rounded. Tap a school for its source.

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