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Tuskegee University

Tuskegee, Alabama · Private · Four-year · Founded 1881

www.tuskegee.edu · official site

Founding

Tuskegee University records its founding date as July 4, 1881, authorized by Alabama House Bill 165. Its hospital, opened in 1923, was the first staffed entirely by Black professionals.

Source: History and Mission, Tuskegee University, read 2026-09-14.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
Kresge Center, 3rd Floor, Tuskegee, AL 36088-1920
Control
Private not-for-profit
IPEDS unit id
102377
OPE id
00105000
Federal student aid
Participates in Title IV federal student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
On the map
Not placed on the map: the Census Bureau returned no match. Held on 2026-09-14 until a person resolves the address; no other geocoder was consulted.

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 102377. 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 and Mission, Tuskegee University. https://www.tuskegee.edu/explore/History-and-Mission.html. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

Machine-readable: /api/v1/hbcus/tuskegee-university · All HBCUs

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