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Talladega College

School colors: Crimson & Sky Blue

Talladega College Savery Library
Rivers Langley; SaveRivers, 2011-10-27, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Talladega, Alabama · Founded 1867

Private · Four-year · ~840 students

www.talladega.edu · official site

Founding

Talladega College states that it has been producing scholarly, productive citizens since 1867. It describes itself as ranked among the best regional colleges and the top HBCUs in the nation.

Source: Admissions, Talladega College, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

On the record
  • Pickens would go on to found the first chapter of the NAACP in Alabama on the campus. Source, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
627 West Battle Street, Talladega, AL 35160
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~840 students
Directory id
102298
OPE id
00104600
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
627 West Battle Street, Talladega, AL. 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 33.433472, -86.112704 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 102298. 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. Admissions, Talladega College. https://www.talladega.edu/admissions/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 837 total, Fall 2023 (782 undergraduate, 55 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. Presidential History, Talladega College. https://www.talladega.edu/presidential-history/. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. School colors: Crimson & Sky Blue. Values as stated. Talladega College, Wikipedia (revision 1368429273). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Rivers Langley; SaveRivers, 2011-10-27, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Talladega_College_Savery_Library.JPG. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  8. 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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