Alcorn State University is a public historically black land-grant research university adjacent to Lorman, Mississippi. It was founded in 1871 and was the first black land grant college established in the United States. The university is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund.
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Location
Alcorn State, MS, 39096-7500
31.877216, -91.142854
Accreditation
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
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