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We're the second-largest university in the state and growing!
We offer all of the opportunities of a large university with the comforts of a small, private institution.
Our unique culture creates a close community of scholars and friends.
Whatever your passion, you can study it here at UL Lafayette.
Advance your undergraduate experience in one of our masters and doctoral programs.
Our online degree and course offerings include 100% online and hybrid options.
UL Lafayette is known for exceptional programs. Some of our most notable and recognized programs include nursing, the sciences, engineering, the humanities, and architecture.__
_ _Our students come from 70+ different countries and to all of them we say: You are welcome here.
_The National Science Foundation ranks us amoung the best universities for our percentage of research and development expenditures funded by business.
The Carnegie Foundation designates UL Lafayette as a 鈥淩esearch University with Very High Research Activity.鈥 That puts UL Lafayette in the same category as Duke, Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and Princeton.
This organization encourages and supports inventors working in academic settings.
UL Lafayette is all about inclusion. We strive to bring everyone to the same table.
And we鈥檙e always working to do better. Our establishes an ambitious, measurable agenda for advancing diversity, equity, and inclusion in course offerings, hiring, student services, and community outreach.
UL Lafayette has earned the Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award for six years in a row because of our programs, initiatives and efforts that promote equity and inclusion.
Our Louisiana Educate Program helps academically accomplished, low-income students remain in college.
UL Lafayette as one of the best universities in the nation for social mobility and providing a 鈥渂est bang for the buck鈥 education.
We're the only University in the world with the unforgettable athletics nickname of the Ragin鈥 Cajuns.
Our student-athletes compete in the NCAA鈥檚 Division 1.
In 2020, Louisiana Football was voted No. 19 in the Associated Press Top 25 Poll and No. 21 in the USA Today Amway Coaches Poll.
Nearly 130,000 people have earned degrees from UL Lafayette since its founding, although their diplomas may bear different school names. SLII became Southwestern Louisiana Institute in 1921. SLI was renamed the University of Southwestern Louisiana in 1960. In 1999, USL became the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.__
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