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Voorhees(Voorhees University)

School colors: Royal Blue & White

VoorheesUniversity
2C2K Photography, 2025-08-15 23:55:53, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Denmark, South Carolina · Founded 1897

Private · Four-year · ~520 students

www.voorhees.edu · official site

Founding

Voorhees University began as the Denmark Industrial School, founded in 1897 by Elizabeth Evelyn Wright and modeled on Tuskegee. A $5,000 gift from New Jersey philanthropist Ralph Voorhees and his wife bought the land and first building, and the school opened in 1902 with Wright as principal.

Source: History, Voorhees University, read 2026-09-14.

On the official record

Campus address
1897 Voorhees Road, Denmark, SC 29042
Control
Private not-for-profit
Students
~520 students
Directory id
218919
OPE id
00345500
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
1897 Voorhees Road, Denmark, SC. 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 33.307199, -81.127863 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 218919. 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, Voorhees University. https://voorhees.edu/about-us/history/. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Students: 515 total, Fall 2023 (460 undergraduate, 55 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. School colors: Royal Blue & White. Values as stated. Voorhees University, Wikipedia (revision 1368317804). Read 2026-09-16.
  6. Photograph: 2C2K Photography, 2025-08-15 23:55:53, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:VoorheesUniversity-2.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  7. 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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