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Tougaloo(Tougaloo College)

School colors: Royal blue & scarlet

StriebyHall, Tougaloo College
Historic photograph. In a work by Edward Mayes, Photographer not mentioned., circa 1899, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons

Tougaloo, Mississippi · Founded 1869

Private · Four-year · ~730 students

www.tougaloo.edu · official site

Founding

Tougaloo College was founded in 1869 by the American Missionary Association, an organization born of the abolitionist movement around the Amistad case. The Mississippi Legislature chartered Tougaloo University in 1871.

Source: Our History, Tougaloo College, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
500 W County Line Rd, Tougaloo, MS 39174
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~730 students
Directory id
176406
OPE id
00243900
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
500 W County Line Rd, Tougaloo, MS. 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 32.403014, -90.16076 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 176406. 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. Our History, Tougaloo College. https://www.tougaloo.edu/about-tougaloo-college/our-history. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 725 total, Fall 2023 (711 undergraduate, 14 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: Royal blue & scarlet. Values as stated. Tougaloo College, Wikipedia (revision 1373456274). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: In a work by Edward Mayes, Photographer not mentioned., circa 1899, Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:99-StriebyHall.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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