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LSU opened in 1860 under superintendent Colonel William Tecumseh Sherman. Our campus, named among the 20 most beautiful in America, features Italian Renaissance-style architecture and state-of- the-art structures standing amid towering oaks and broad magnolias. But LSU is more than location and landscape: at the heart of our campus, our faculty and students are discovering new species, working on modern energy solutions (and improving old ones), and helping solve local and national issues ranging from coastal erosion to missing or unidentified persons. With the help of our dedicated staff members, LSU offers more opportunities for student success, more support services, more academic programs, and more direct research for undergraduates than any other university in .

STUDENTS come from 52% female, Nearly 245,000 BY THE EVERY STATE in the 30,000 27% non-white, degrees have been more than 300 NUMBERS: U.S. and MORE THAN students: 20% from out of state, 82.5% awarded STUDY ABROAD LOCATIONS at which students can study 100 COUNTRIES 5% international FRESHMAN RETENTION RATE since 1869 All numbers are accurate as of May 2014. BRAGGING RIGHTS At LSU, we take pride in many achievements. A few are detailed below:

• The LSU College of Art & Design’s Robert S. Reich School of Landscape Architecture is consistently ranked No. 1 in the country in undergraduate education.

• The College of Science ranks eighth in the nation in the number of students who apply to medical school. Our students are accepted to a number of prominent medical and dental programs including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Baylor, Vanderbilt, Columbia, and Stanford.

• The LSU College of Science recently received an $11 million grant for the National Institutes of Environmental Health Sciences Superfund Research Center, one of only 16 university centers in the U.S.

• The world’s largest general scientific society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, has named 14 LSU College of Science faculty members as fellows over the last two years, placing the university among the top 10 percent of U.S. universities.

• The LSU Center for Internal Auditing has established itself as the premier internal audit program in the world. Numerous institutions globally have modeled themselves on LSUCIA, and the center boasts 18 recipients of the Institute of Internal Auditors’ Student Highest Achievement Award.

• Since the 1930s and the founding of , the College of Humanities & Social Sciences has been a home to great writing. Our graduate writing program is ranked in the top 25 nationally, and works by its faculty and graduates appear everywhere from the best-seller list, to HBO’s Tremé, to The Late Show with David Letterman.

• LSU boasts 20 athletic teams and 47 national championships, including three in football, six in baseball, and an incredible 32 in track and field.

• Through the College of Engineering, LSU is the only university in North America where future petroleum engineers can get hands-on training in well control by working at a full-scale well control research and training facility: the Petroleum Engineering Research & Technology Transfer Laboratory.

• The Department of Theatre is one of a handful of programs in the country with an affiliate professional theatre, , which recently celebrated its 20th season.

• The LSU Manship School of Mass Communication is the only communication school in the country granting degrees in media and public affairs at the bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral levels. The school has earned a national reputation for turning out professionals and scholars at the highest level.

70 Nearly DEGREE PROGRAMS 3,600 STAFF MEMBERS and 70 bachelor’s, More than 20 ATHLETIC TEAMS 1,232 FACULTY and RESEARCHERS 76 48 76 master’s, and 375 ACTIVE AND in 10 SENIOR COLLEGES 48 doctoral STUDENT NATIONAL 24:1 47 CHAMPIONSHIPS and the graduate school ORGANIZATIONS STUDENT TO FACULTY RATIO The College of Human Sciences & Education’s Coastal Roots LSU has produced more women and African American PhD Faculty and students in the LSU College of Human Sciences THE IMPACT OF THE program provides hands-on learning in environmental studies for graduates in chemistry than any other university in the country. & Education provide instruction, facilitate community students in grades 2-12. More than 10,000 students have planted activities, and conduct research projects, all of which have a more than 91,000 tree seedlings and grass plugs. Millie, the world’s first cloned transgenic goat, was direct influence on Louisiana residents, addressing issues LSU COMMUNITY produced as part of a research program in the College of of poverty, education, and wellness. They produce The LSU FACES Lab is home to many experts in forensic Agriculture and the LSU AgCenter. Millie’s milk contained a theory, policy, and practice models that have been replicated anthropology who work with law enforcement agencies in therapeutic protein, which could be extracted to produce a throughout the country. identifying human remains. The FACES lab is partnered with drug for patients undergoing coronary bypass surgery. the Crime and Policy Evaluation Research Group, a network of The Manship School of Mass Communication was IS GLOBAL, more than 30 criminology researchers. LSU was recently listed in the 2013 edition of the Princeton the first school to win the national Equity and Diversity Review’s “Guide to 322 Green Colleges,” which profiles Award given by the Association for Education in Journalism REACHING BEYOND The College of Engineering ranks in the top 10 percent 320 institutions of higher education in the United States and and Mass Communication. The award recognizes the nationally for number of degrees awarded and is the fifth fastest two in Canada that demonstrate a strong commitment Manship School as a leader in improving diversity in its growing engineering college in the nation. to sustainability in their academic offerings, campus classrooms and curricula, as well as external programs such infrastructure, activities, and career preparation. as the Forum on Media Diversity website, workshops for OUR CAMPUS The Coastal Sustainability Studio, located in the Design Louisiana ethnic media, and sponsorship of panel discussions TO HELP SOLVE ISSUES THAT AFFECT Building, is an interdisciplinary studio of designers, engineers, LSU is home to one of 46 multi-million-dollar Energy held at national conventions. and coastal scientists, all sharing their knowledge and expertise Frontier Research Centers established by the U.S. INDIVIDUALS, COMMUNITIES, as they tackle the issues of hurricane protection and coastal Department of Energy Office of Science at universities, national The LSU Honors College is home to 1,500 of the state’s most restoration. laboratories, and nonprofit organizations across the nation in an intellectually ambitious students, some of whom have gone on AND NATIONS BOTH NEAR AND FAR. effort to lay the scientific groundwork for fundamental advances to the top graduate, medical, and law schools in the country, The LSU University College’s Summer Scholars Program in newer, cleaner, and improved forms of energy. including Harvard’s Kennedy School, Harvard Medical HERE ARE A FEW OF THE WAYS WE ARE MAKING AN IMPACT: is an award-winning summer bridge program that is designed School, Harvard Law School, Johns Hopkins Medical School, to recruit and retain top students from underrepresented minority LSU School of Social Work students have worked to promote Yale, MIT, Columbia, University of Chicago, Georgetown, the populations. This 20-year-old program has a graduation rate statewide advocacy in alleviating sexual exploitation and abuse London School of Economics, Oxford University, and University of 67 percent and boasts alumni who are physicians, lawyers, of LGBTQ populations and reducing bullying in the primary College London. college professors, corporate executives, and entrepreneurs. and secondary schools by providing mentors and resources for students and educators.

College of Humanities & Social Sciences College of Agriculture School of the Coast & Environment Manship School of Mass Communication SENIOR College of Art & Design College of Engineering ACADEMIC FIELDS LSU HAS College of Music & Dramatic Arts 10 COLLEGES E. J. Ourso College of Business College of Human Sciences & Education WITH MORE THAN 235 OF STUDY College of Science Bill Conti Marty Sixkiller LSU alumni make significant impacts around the globe and in every industry, from political consulting to spaceflight and athletics to entertainment. A few of our notable alums include:

Bill Conti is an Oscar-winning composer who has written David Suarez is the president and chief executive officer of theme music for several well-known movies, including Gonna Fly Atlantic Company of America Inc., Washington, D.C.’s premier Now from the Rocky films, which reached No.1 on theBillboard historic restoration construction firm. His firm has worked on singles chart. Among other achievements, Conti won the 1984 impressive projects including the restoration of the Washington Academy Award for Best Original Score for the soundtrack to Monument, the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, and the The Right Stuff. He has a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame U.S. Treasury Building. and has served either as musical director or conductor for the Academy Awards 16 times. Linda Thomas-Greenfield has dedicated her career to representing the United States abroad. She is currently director Maxime Faget designed the Mercury spacecraft, which general of the U.S. Foreign Service and director of human sent the first American into space. He also worked on the Gemini resources for that agency. Prior to that role, she served as LSU ALUMNI ARE: and Apollo spacecrafts and the Space Shuttle. He is a member of ambassador to the Republic of Liberia. She has also served the National Space Hall of Fame and the National Inventors Hall in Jamaica, Nigeria, The Gambia, Kenya, Pakistan, and OSCAR WINNERS of Fame. Switzerland. Among other awards, she received the Warren Christopher Award for Outstanding Achievement in Global Affairs SPACECRAFT DESIGNERS Donna Brazile, a veteran political strategist, author, and in 2000 for her work with refugees. syndicated columnist, was the first African American to lead GOLD MEDAL a major presidential campaign as campaign manager for Rebecca Wells is an author and playwright whose novels Al Gore’s 2000 presidential run. She is the vice chair of include the No. 1 New York Times bestsellers Divine Secrets Voter Registration and Participation at the Democratic National of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, Little Altars Everywhere, and Ya-Yas in OLYMPIC ATHLETES Committee and a regular political contributor for CNN. Bloom. Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood was turned into BEST-SELLING AUTHORS a movie that grossed over $73 million worldwide and featured World-renowned orthopedic surgeon Dr. James Andrews Sandra Bullock, Ashley Judd, Ellen Burstyn, and James Garner. POLITICAL HEAVYWEIGHTS has operated on sports legends such as , Drew Brees, and Jack Nicklaus. He founded the Alabama Sports Medicine Interior Designer Kenneth Brown gained broad exposure RENOWNED SURGEONS and Orthopedic Center and the American Sports Medicine and popularity from his own television shows on Fine Living, TLC, Donna Brazile Institute in Birmingham, Alabama, and later the Andrews Institute and HGTV. He is also the resident interior design expert at for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine in Gulf Breeze, Florida. MSN.com. He has been named one of 100 top designers by House Beautiful and Western Interiors and has appeared on Anthony Ryan Auld is making a name for himself in the fashion The Today Show, CNN, Entertainment Tonight, Good Morning industry and was a contestant on season 9 of Project Runway America, and Fox News This Morning. and recently was the winner of Project Runway All Stars Season 2. As a student, he took the top prize at the Dallas Actress Denise Boutte starred on Meet The Browns, Tyler Career Day in 2010, earning a scholarship to study at the Paris Perry’s award-winning TBS series, and has had guest and American Academy. recurring roles on other popular TV shows, including Boston Legal, Everybody Hates Chris, Girlfriends, Noah’s Arc, and Seimone Augustus received her degree in 2005 after just Days of Our Lives. three years at LSU, where she earned NCAA Women’s National Player of the Year honors twice. She was the first pick Marty Sixkiller was a member of the PDI/DreamWorks of the 2006 WNBA draft by the and was a U.S. Animation team for more than a decade and contributed to nearly Olympic gold medalist in both 2008 and 2012. all of their animation and visual effects projects including Shrek, Kung Fu Panda, Madagascar, and How to Train Your Dragon. He is currently a senior manager at Rackspace, an IT hosting company.

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GERBER, KRAFT, NESTLÉ, PURINA, RALPH LAUREN, VERA WANG, TOMMY LSU GRADUATES FROM ACROSS THE UNIVERSITY HAVE GONE ON TO WORK FOR TOP COMPANIES LIKE HILFIGER, DREAMWORKS ANIMATION, HGTV, CNN, MSNBC, USA TODAY, NIKE, ERNST & YOUNG, DELOITTE & TOUCHE LLP, JPMORGAN CHASE, AMERICAN RED CROSS, NEW ORLEANS PELICANS, AND SHELL. The Quad

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