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UDC(University of the District of Columbia)

School colors: Red Gold

UDC Quad by Matthew Bisanz, University of the District of Columbia
Matthew Bisanz, 2012-05-12 18:24:36, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Washington, District of Columbia · Founded 1851

Public · Four-year · ~3,900 students

www.udc.edu · official site

Founding

The University of the District of Columbia traces public higher education in the District to the school for Black girls that Myrtilla Miner founded in Washington in 1851. In 1976 the city began consolidating three institutions into the present university.

Source: History and Mission, University of the District of Columbia, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

On the record
  • As the only public university in the nation's capital and the only urban land-grant university in the United States, UDC is proud to offer a variety of robust educational, research and community service opportunities. Source, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
4200 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008
Control
Public
Students
~3,900 students
Directory id
131399
OPE id
00144100
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
4200 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC. 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 38.943819, -77.066247 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 131399. 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, University of the District of Columbia. https://www.udc.edu/about/history-mission. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 3,855 total, Fall 2023 (3,297 undergraduate, 558 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. Home, University of the District of Columbia. https://www.udc.edu/. Read 2026-09-17.
  6. School colors: Red Gold. Values as stated. University of the District of Columbia, Wikipedia (revision 1372904251). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Matthew Bisanz, 2012-05-12 18:24:36, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:UDC_Quad_by_Matthew_Bisanz.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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