page_title: New Orleans
section_title: Colleges and universities
hierarchical_section_title: New Orleans / Education / Colleges and universities
caption_attribution_description: English: Gibson Hall at Tulane University
context_page_description: New Orleans is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With an estimated population of 390,144 in 2019, it is the most populous city in Louisiana. Serving as a major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast region of the United States.
  New Orleans is world-renowned for its distinct music, Creole cuisine, unique dialect, and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The historic heart of the city is the French Quarter, known for its French and Spanish Creole architecture and vibrant nightlife along Bourbon Street. The city has been described as the "most unique" in the United States, owing in large part to its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. Additionally, New Orleans has increasingly been known as "Hollywood South" due to its prominent role in the film industry and in pop culture.
  Founded in 1718 by French colonists, New Orleans was once the territorial capital of French Louisiana before being traded to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803.
context_section_description: New Orleans has the highest concentration of colleges and universities in Louisiana and one of the highest in the Southern United States.  New Orleans also has the third highest concentration of historically black collegiate institutions in the nation.
  Colleges and universities based within the city include:
  Tulane University, a private, major research university founded in 1834
  Loyola University New Orleans, a Jesuit university founded in 1912
  University of New Orleans, a public, urban research university
  Xavier University of Louisiana, the only historically black Catholic university in the US
  Southern University at New Orleans, a public, historically black university in the Southern University System
  Dillard University, a private, historically black liberal arts university founded in 1869
  Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center
  University of Holy Cross, a Catholic liberal arts university founded in 1916
  Notre Dame Seminary
  New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary
  Delgado Community College, founded in 1921
  William Carey College School of Nursing
  Herzing College
caption: A view of Gibson Hall at Tulane University
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