Tulane University is one of the country’s leading private research institutions. Founded in 1834 in New Orleans, it is home to 11 schools and colleges offering undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees in architecture, business, engineering, law, liberal arts and sciences, medicine, public health and tropical medicine and social work.
The University is comprehensive by nature, with more than 11,000 students enrolled in eleven schools and colleges ranging from the liberal arts and sciences through a full spectrum of professional schools: law, medicine, business, engineering, architecture, social work, and public health and tropical medicine.
Tulane's distinctive arrangement of undergraduate schools gives every student the personal attention and teaching excellence of a small college while providing the interdisciplinary opportunities and research resources of a university that U.S. News & World Report ranks in the nation's top quartile. The average class size is 32. Senior faculty members are in the classroom at all levels, and the 8:1 student-teacher ratio ensures individual attention.
International applicants must submit standardized test scores from the Scholastic Assessment Test and (TOEFL). Freshman candidates whose native language is English and/or who can submit sufficient SAT I verbal scores of approximately 550 may request that the TOEFL requirement be waived.
