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University of the District of Columbia

Washington, District of Columbia · Public · Four-year · Founded 1851

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.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
4200 Connecticut Ave NW, Washington, DC 20008
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
131399
OPE id
00144100
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: 4200 CONNECTICUT AVE NW, WASHINGTON, DC, 20008. 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 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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

Machine-readable: /api/v1/hbcus/university-of-the-district-of-columbia · All HBCUs

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