There are many apartments close to the main campus. On campus, the Aron Residences offer single-room apartments. All prices at Rosen House included utilities. The current interdisciplinary graduate student body numbers 75. In addition, approximately 100 graduate students specialize in the study of Latin America while pursuing degrees in such fields as history and public health.
Students come from all over the United States, Europe, and Latin America.
An agreement with the Mexican Ministry of Education has placed some 80 Mexican university professors on the Tulane campus, where they are earning Ph.D. degrees, many in Latin America-related areas. Entering students have bachelor's degrees from Yale, Chicago, and Georgetown and from a cross-section of good small colleges and large state universities. It is a cosmopolitan city with European traditions and architecture. Louisiana was a French and Spanish colony and has a legal system and many customs that have a great deal in common with Latin America and the Caribbean. The metropolitan area has a population of some 150,000 Latin Americans, and the city has many commercial ties with Latin America.