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Winston-Salem State University

Winston-Salem, North Carolina · Public · Four-year · Founded 1892

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.

As the Department of Education lists it

Campus address
601 S. Martin Luther King Jr Dr, Winston-Salem, NC 27110-0001
Control
Public
IPEDS unit id
199999
OPE id
00298600
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: 601 S MARTIN LUTHER KING JR DR, WINSTON SALEM, NC, 27110. 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 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. U.S. Census Bureau Geocoder, batch address service, benchmark Public_AR_Current. https://geocoding.geo.census.gov/geocoder/.

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