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Virginia University of Lynchburg

School colors: Navy Blue & Light Blue

VUL Sign, Virginia University of Lynchburg
Everettoptions, 2007-07-31 19:50:24, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Lynchburg, Virginia · Founded 1886

Private · Four-year · ~590 students

www.vul.edu · official site

Founding

The Virginia Seminary and College, today Virginia University of Lynchburg, was organized in May 1886 during the 19th annual session of the Virginia Baptist State Convention at the First Baptist Church in Lexington, Virginia. It remains a Baptist-founded institution in Lynchburg.

Source: History, Virginia University of Lynchburg, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

Motto
Self-help and InterdependenceSource, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
2058 Garfield Ave, Lynchburg, VA 24501
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~590 students
Directory id
234137
OPE id
00376200
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
2058 Garfield Ave, Lynchburg, VA. 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 37.395187, -79.151615 as published. The Census Bureau geocoder returned No Match for the address on file, which no longer decides placement.

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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 234137. 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, Virginia University of Lynchburg. https://wp.vul.edu/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Home, Virginia University of Lynchburg. https://wp.vul.edu/. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. Students: 589 total, Fall 2023 (170 undergraduate, 419 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.
  6. School colors: Navy Blue & Light Blue. Values as stated. Virginia University of Lynchburg, Wikipedia (revision 1373469776). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Everettoptions, 2007-07-31 19:50:24, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VUL_Sign.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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