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| Campus, Academics, Faculty,
Students, Tuition, UL Lafayette's
Impact, Athletics, Noteworthy, University
of Louisiana System, The First Century of Service |
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Campus
- The University of Louisiana at Lafayette owns a total of about 1,400 acres. Its main campus consists of 137 acres; the athletic complex
and Cajundome
sit on 243 acres; University Research Park has 148 acres; and the Center
for Ecology and Environmental Technology has 51 acres.
- It also owns the 100-acre New
Iberia Research Center in New Iberia, La., which is one of the largest
private non-human, primate breeding colonies in the world.
- UL Lafayette maintains 274 campus buildings that have a total of about 4 million square feet.
- University Research Park tenants include:
- The Cajundome
is a 12,800-seat multipurpose arena. There is an adjacent convention
center.
- Edith
Garland Dupré Library is one of the most technologically advanced
university libraries in Louisiana.
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Academics
- 100 percent of all undergraduate programs at UL Lafayette that are
eligible for accreditation by professional agencies are accredited.
- UL Lafayette is a member of the Southeastern Universities Research
Association, which is composed of members from more than a dozen southeastern
states and the District of Columbia. Other members include Duke, Vanderbilt
and Auburn universities.
- The Carnegie Foundation has designated UL Lafayette as a “Research University with High Research Activity.” That puts UL Lafayette in the same category as Clemson, Auburn and Baylor universities.
- The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is accredited by the Commission
on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
- About 1,200 students are graduated each fall and spring.
- UL Lafayette is a selective admissions university.
- UL Lafayette includes the following colleges and schools:
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Faculty & Staff
- There are almost 600 continuing faculty and more than 100 adjunct or part-time faculty members.
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Students
- Total Fall 2011 enrollment was 16,885, including 15,321 undergraduates and 1,564 graduate students. The number of students attending in the fall semester is a university's official enrollment.
- UL Lafayette had 972 international students for the Fall 2011 semester.
- Fifty-seven percent of the Fall 2011 student body are female; 43 percent are male.
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Tuition and Fees*
Spring 2012 Semester
*
Subject to change
- Undergraduate, Full Time (12 credit hours)
- Resident (In State) $2,420
- Non-Resident (Out of State)
- U.S. Citizen $6,731
- International $6,799
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UL Lafayette's Economic Impact
- UL Lafayette had a total spending impact alone of $755 million in Louisiana, with $726 million of that total spending impact felt in Acadiana, in 2008.
- UL Lafayette reported $51 million in external research funding from state, federal, private and self-generated funds in 2008. These were new dollars brought into Acadiana’s economy.
- In 2008, UL Lafayette’s economic development centers had the following impacts:
- $ 1.2 billion in increased revenues for clients
- $ 1.8 billion in retained revenues for clients
- More than $101 million in savings for clients
- More than $56 million in increased investments by clients
- About $28 million in cost avoidance (money that companies did not have to spend as a result of economic development centers' assistance)
- Every dollar of state funding invested in UL Lafayette generates more than an $8 return.
- The university has about 1,900 employees
- About $1.3 billion was added to Louisiana’s economy by UL Lafayette graduates over the past 10 years due to degree attainment.
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Noteworthy
- UL Lafayette's MBA program is included in the 2012 edition of the Princeton Review's Best 294 Business Schools.
- A personal gift from Lafayette businessman Donald Mosing is the largest of its kind for UL Lafayette's College of Engineering. Mosing, of Frank's Casing Crew & Rental Tools, Inc., donated $2.83 million to the college in January. He graduated from UL Lafayette in 1950 with a degree in mechanical engineering.
- The Louisiana Board of Regents has approved a joint doctor of nursing practice degree program between UL Lafayette and Southeastern Louisiana University in Hammond. The DNP is the first of its kind for public universities in Louisiana. It will be implemented in Fall 2012, pending approval by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
- The 2012 Miss Louisiana is a recent UL Lafayette graduate. Erin Edmiston was crowned in late October; she received a diploma in December. The 5-foot, 7-inch brunette will represent Louisiana at the Miss USA 2012 pageant, which will air live on NBC. The tentative date of that event is June 3.
- The College of Engineering is offering the first Ph.D. in systems engineering in Louisiana. Systems engineering is a multi-disciplinary field that incorporates technology development, design and project management skills. Graduates are trained to find solutions to large, complex engineering systems such as coast ecosystems, water treatment facilities, computer networks, aircraft and fiber optic networks.
- The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is one of the most affordable universities in the nation, thanks to comprehensive scholarship and financial aid programs, including out-of-state fee waivers to qualified students.
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University of Louisiana System
The University of Louisiana at Lafayette is part of the University
of Louisiana System. Other members are:
- Grambling State University, Grambling, La.
- Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, La.
- McNeese State University, Lake Charles, La.
- Nicholls State University, Thibodaux, La.
- Northwestern State University, Natchitoches, La.
- Southeastern Louisiana University, Hammond, La.
- University of Louisiana at Monroe, Monroe, La.
- University of Louisiana at New Orleans, New Orleans, La.
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The First Century of Service
- In 1898, Louisiana lawmakers approved the creation of an "Industrial
Institute and academy" in the 13th Senatorial District.
- In 1900, Dr. Edwin L. Stephens was named the first president of Southwestern
Louisiana Industrial Institute, which was to be located on the outskirts
of Lafayette on 25 acres of donated land. SLII opened its doors on Sept.
18, 1901, with 100 students and eight faculty members.
- In 1903, 18 students were the first to graduate from SLII.
- In 1921, SLII became Southwestern Louisiana Institute when it was
designated as one of the state's institutions of higher learning. The
year before, it had begun offering a four-year course that culminated
with a bachelor of arts degree.
- In 1960, SLI became the University of Southwestern Louisiana when
it achieved university status.
- In 1999, USL was renamed the University of Louisiana at Lafayette.
The new name better reflects its status as the state's second largest
university and an institution with statewide and national - rather than
regional - influence. USL also implemented selective admissions in 1999.
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