The Graduate School offers advanced degrees in over 40 fields of study. The faculty is drawn from the University faculty as a whole. Many professors hold primary appointments in the liberal arts colleges, the School of Medicine, and the School of Engineering, with some rep-resentation from the Schools of Business, Law, Social Work, Architecture, and Public Health and Tropical Medicine. The twelfth oldest law school in the nation, Tulane s School of Law is the only one in the United States to offer complete training in both civil law, which is prac-ticed in Louisiana, and common law, which governs all other states. Today, Newcomb is the largest division of Tulane University.
Additional programs focus on leadership roles and career paths for women.
The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine is one of 27 such schools in the country. The MPH and TM program in tropical medicine, available to physicians only, is the only one in the United States from which a degree rather than a diplo-ma is obtained. The School s Master s International Program, a joint collabora-tion with the U.S. Peace Corps, is the largest Master s International Public Health program in the country. Our mission focuses on educating professionals to draw upon individual, family, organizational, and community strengths to serve the most vulnerable, and to enhance the caring capacity of society. The College was founded in 1847 by the leg-islative act of the State of Louisiana that founded the University.