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Tougaloo College

Tougaloo, Mississippi · Private · Four-year · Founded 1869

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.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
500 W County Line Rd, Tougaloo, MS 39174
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
176406
OPE id
00243900
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Placed on the Ledger map by an exact match from the U.S. Census Bureau geocoder on 2026-09-14: 500 W COUNTY LINE RD, TOUGALOO, MS, 39174. See it on the Ledger map.

No enrollment figure is published on this page. The Ledger prints one only with a dated NCES citation, and none is attached to this record.

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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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