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Southern University and A&M College is a public historically black land-grant university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It is the largest historically black college or university in Louisiana, a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and the flagship institution of the Southern University System. Its campus encompasses 512 acres, wit…
Southern University and A&M College is a public historically black land-grant university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. It is the largest historically black college or university in Louisiana, a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and the flagship institution of the Southern University System. Its campus encompasses 512 acres, with an agricultural experimental station on an additional 372-acre site, five miles north of the main campus on Scott's Bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in the northern section of Baton Rouge.
  • Former names: Southern University for Colored Students (1880–1890)
  • Type: Public flagship land-grant historically black land-grant university
  • Established: April 10, 1880
  • Parent institution: SU System
  • Accreditation: SACS
  • Academic affiliations: ORAU · TMSF · Space-grant
  • Endowment: $9.4 million (2018)
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