Southern University
Facts
22 propertiesIdentity
- Instance of
- public university, land-grant university, historically black college or university, public educational institution of the United States, school[7][8][9][10]
- Official website
- www.subr.edu[16]
- Native label
- Southern University[18]
Status and dates
- Inception
- 1880[13]
Location
- Country
- United States[6]
- Coordinate location
- 🗺️ 30.525°, -91.190°[14]
- Located in the administrative territorial entity
- Louisiana, Baton Rouge[4][5]
- Postal code
- 70813[11]
- Street address
- 3rd Floor, J.S. Clark Adm. Building, P.O. Box 9374, Baton Rouge, LA, 70813
Financials
- Employees
- +1159[17]
Relations
- Child organization or unit
- John B. Cade Library[12]
- Owner of
- Ace W. Mumford Stadium[19]
- Parent organization or unit
- Southern University System[15]
More facts +8
- Academic calendar type
- semester
- Admission rate
- +0.43
- Admission yield rate
- +0.45
- Athletics program
- Southern Jaguars and Lady Jaguars
- Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education
- master's colleges and universities: larger programs, high undergraduate, research doctoral: professional-dominant, four-year, medium, primarily residential, four-year, full-time, inclusive, higher transfer-in, professions plus arts & sciences, some graduate coexistence[21][22][23]
- Count of students
- +6917[20]
- On focus list of Wikimedia project
- WikiProject African diaspora
- Social media followers
- 32k (23k–32k, n=4)
- ROR ID
- 04r3m2882
- ISNI
- 0000000403860655
- VIAF cluster ID
- 138367926
- Library of Congress Authorities ID
- n80004182
- OpenAlex ID
- I145610796
- GRID ID
- grid.263880.7
- Image (Wikimedia Commons)
- PB SU.jpg ↗
- Encyclopedia of African American History 1896 to the Present entry ID
- 1130
- Facebook username
- southernuniversitybatonrouge
- Freebase ID
- /m/03x33n
- Instagram username
- southernu_br
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System ID
- 160621
Show all 22 identifiers +10
- J9U entity ID
- 987007352129605171
- Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued)
- 145610795
- NL CR AUT ID
- ko2010567036
- OpenStreetMap way ID
- 38501881
- Quora topic ID
- Southern-University-and-A-M-College-1
- Ringgold ID
- 14694
- Scilit organization ID
- 3022
- Topic's main category
- Category:Southern University
- X (Twitter) username
- SouthernU_BR
- Yale LUX ID
- group/9225b2db-5ca3-49d7-be85-3db219165cb7
Notable alumni 32
← Affiliated with 13
Employees / affiliates 4
Instance of 4
Located in the administrative territorial entity 2
Academic calendar type 1
Category for alumni of educational institution 1
Country 1
Topic's main category 1
← Category combines topics 1
← Category's main topic 1
← FactGrid item ID 1
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Summary
Southern University is a public university[1].
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evidence “BATON ROUGE — Southern University, along with the Southern University Law Center and the SU Ag Center, will have a delayed start on Tuesday due to a campus power outage.” wbrz.com · read source
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evidence “BATON ROUGE — Southern University, along with the Southern University Law Center and the SU Ag Center, will have a delayed start on Tuesday due to a campus power outage.” wbrz.com · read source