Only at Tulane can a student get an international education in a European city without leaving America. New Orleans is a city of neighborhoods, each with its own attractions. The charm of New Orleans extends far past the French Quarter, located a half-hour from campus and connected by streetcar. Tulane's campus is in historic Uptown New Orleans, a neighborhood distinguished by stately antebellum mansions. Directly across from Tulane is Audubon Park.
Students often spend afternoons in the park studying, rollerblading, or relaxing in the sun.
The campus spans 110 acres and engenders a feeling of a true university community with its gray stone and pillared red brick buildings, arrayed around expansive lawns shaded by giant oak trees. One of a handful of major private research universities in the South, Tulane was founded in 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana and reorganized as Tulane in 1884. Our 5,000 full-time undergraduates choose from 59 majors and may opt for joint degree programs in our professional schools, thus earning graduate degrees in a shorter period of time. Tulane's unique arrangement of undergraduate schools into five separate divisions gives each student the personal attention and teaching excellence for which small colleges are known, while providing access to the interdisciplinary and research resources of a university that U.S. News and World Report ranks among the nation's top quartile. Thus, while Tulane maintains its status as a top research university, the true focus on campus is the undergraduate experience.