Educational InstitutionsEducational Organization

John Carroll University

John Carroll University (JCU) is a private Jesuit university in University Heights, Ohio, United States, a suburb of Cleveland. It was founded in 1886 as St. Ignatius College and renamed in 1923 for John Carroll, the first Catholic bishop in the United States. For the 2025–2026 academic year, the university enrolled approximately 3,900 undergraduate and graduate students.

Identifiers

OPEID6 Six-digit base OPE ID (without the two-digit branch suffix)
3050
OPEID Office of Postsecondary Education Identifier, used for federal financial aid program participation
305000
IPEDS UNITID Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System identifier assigned by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES)
203368
DAPIP ID Database of Accredited Postsecondary Institutions and Programs identifier from the U.S. Department of Education
135771

Location

University Heights, OH, 44118-4538

41.490259, -81.531224

Accreditation

Higher Learning Commission

Also Known As

JCU

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