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Texas Southern University

School colors: Maroon & gray

TexasSouthernUniversityHouston
WhisperToMe at English Wikipedia, 12 February 2006 (original upload date), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Houston, Texas · Founded 1947 · Tigers

Public · Four-year · ~8,500 students

www.tsu.edu · official site

Founding

Texas Southern University traces its origins to the Houston Colored Junior College, funded by the Houston Public School Board in 1927. The Texas Legislature passed Senate Bill 140 on March 3, 1947, providing for a law school for Black students in Houston and a university around it, and the university opened in September 1947 with 2,300 students.

Source: History, Texas Southern University, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

Mascot
TigersSource, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
3100 Cleburne St, Houston, TX 77004
Control
Public
Students
~8,500 students
Directory id
229063
OPE id
00364200
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
3100 Cleburne St, Houston, TX. 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 29.721046, -95.361113 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 229063. 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. History, Texas Southern University. https://tsu.edu/about/history/history.php. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. About, Texas Southern University. https://www.tsu.edu/about/. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. Students: 8,469 total, Fall 2023 (6,619 undergraduate, 1,850 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.
  6. School colors: Maroon & gray. Values shown are conventional approximations of the named colors. Texas Southern University, Wikipedia (revision 1366030118). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: WhisperToMe at English Wikipedia, 12 February 2006 (original upload date), Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:TexasSouthernUniversityHouston.JPG. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  8. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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