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WSSU(Winston-Salem State University)

School colors: Scarlet and white

S.G. Atkins House, Winston-Salem State University
Pollje15, 2019-05-04 17:58:16, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Winston-Salem, North Carolina · Founded 1892 · Ram

Public · Four-year · ~4,800 students

www.wssu.edu · official site

Founding

Winston-Salem State University was founded in 1892. It is a historically Black constituent institution of the University of North Carolina.

Source: About WSSU, Winston-Salem State University, read 2026-09-14.

What the school says about itself

Mascot
RamSource, read 2026-09-17.
Motto
Enter To Learn. Depart To Serve.Source, read 2026-09-17.

On the official record

Campus address
601 S. Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Winston-Salem, NC 27110-0001
Control
Public
Students
~4,800 students
Directory id
199999
OPE id
00298600
Student aid
Takes part in Title IV student aid
Title III Part B list, FY 2026
Listed
Location
601 S. Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Winston-Salem, NC. 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 36.089554, -80.225033 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 199999. 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. About WSSU, Winston-Salem State University. https://www.wssu.edu/about/index.html. Read 2026-09-14.
  4. Points of Pride, Winston-Salem State University. https://www.wssu.edu/about/points-of-pride/index.html. Read 2026-09-17.
  5. Students: 4,776 total, Fall 2023 (4,260 undergraduate, 516 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: Scarlet and white. Values shown are conventional approximations of the named colors. Winston-Salem State University, Wikipedia (revision 1374301365). Read 2026-09-16.
  7. Photograph: Pollje15, 2019-05-04 17:58:16, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:S.G._Atkins_House.jpg. Retrieved 2026-09-16.
  8. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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