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Spelman(Spelman College)

School colors: Blue, white

Spelman College gates
Thomson200, 2016-06-11 12:44:56, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons

Atlanta, Georgia · Founded 1881

Private · Four-year · ~3,600 students

www.spelman.edu · official site

Founding

Spelman College was founded in 1881 as the Atlanta Baptist Female Seminary. It became Spelman College in 1924.

Source: About Spelman College, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
350 Spelman Lane SW, Atlanta, GA 30314-4399
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~3,600 students
Directory id
141060
OPE id
00159400
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
350 Spelman Lane SW, Atlanta, GA. 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 33.745279, -84.411527 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder also matched this address exactly on 2026-09-14.

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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 141060. 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 Spelman College. https://www.spelman.edu/about/index.html. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 3,633 total, Fall 2023 (3,633 undergraduate, 0 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. School colors: Blue, white. Values as stated. Spelman College, Wikipedia (revision 1369369577). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: Thomson200, 2016-06-11 12:44:56, CC0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Spelman_College_gates.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. 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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