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Feel the welcome.

Want to experience real Ragin’ Cajun spirit? Join us for a campus tour and feel the welcome in person! We offer weekday tours, selective Saturday tours, and unique Campus Events.

Weekday Tours

Fall and Spring semester campus tours will be offered Monday-Thursday at 9 a.m and 1 p.m. and Friday at 9 a.m. only.

Pre-registration for your tour is required. Your visit to campus will begin with a walking tour of campus led by a current UL Lafayette student. In addition to the tour of campus, you will have the option to tour one of our brand new residence halls and meet with a faculty member in the area you wish to major in. Your campus visit will last approximately 2 hours.

With several days notice we can arrange a tour of campus and the residence halls. With a minimum of two weeks notice, we may be able to schedule a meeting with a faculty member in the area you wish to major in based on availability. We want to make your visit to campus the best that it can be!

On the day of your visit, plan to arrive 15 minutes before your scheduled tour time at the Office of Recruitment Services, located in the French House at 1511 Johnston St. on the corner of Johnston Street and St. Mary Blvd. Parking is available immediately behind our building. You will be issued a visitor parking permit upon your arrival. Tours will depart promptly at your scheduled tour time!

Plan on visiting our campus with your school or community group? All group tours must be pre-registered through our campus tour coordinator at campusvisit@louisiana.edu.

Saturday Tours

Can’t make it during the week? No problem! The Office of Undergraduate Admissions and Recruitment offers campus tours on selective Saturdays during the year. Saturday tours depart at 10 a.m.

Pre-registration for Saturday campus tours is required due to limited space.

Saturday campus tours begin with a walking tour of campus led by a current UL Lafayette student. In addition to the tour of campus, you have the opportunity to tour one of our brand new residence halls. Please be aware that major meetings with faculty members will not be available on Saturdays. Schedule a weekday tour or sign up for Preview Day for this option.

Visitors attending Saturday tours will park in front of Martin Hall. For driving directions, view a Google Map.

Explore the University

We are Ragin' Cajuns

Our students come from across the state and nation — and from more than 77 foreign countries. But here at UL Lafayette, we're all Ragin' Cajuns.

Community Spirit

As members of the campus community, we share great food and music and fresh ideas, too. Students are engaged in fun activities and interdisciplinary studies.

3,200 of us—including all freshmen—live on campus

Our campus is a neighborhood with riveting classes, energizing arts, ragin’ sports, and over 200 student organizations.

Join, serve, play

From AmeriCorps to the Ragin’ Jazz dance team, 26 Greek organizations to the Nepal Students’ Association, we have an organization for you to make a difference.

Enjoy Our Neighborhood

Before, after, and between classes, stroll beneath 100-year-old oaks or visit Cypress Lake, a managed wetland on campus. Just don't feed the alligators!

Pass a Good Time

Our Cajun culture embraces hard work and dedication, but we also like to play and enjoy time together. Dancing, music, and good food are always in abundance here. So come by and, as we like to say, pass a good time.

Something Extra

During Lagniappe Week, take a break from studying. Have some well-deserved fun and race across the lake. FYI: lagniappe means "an extra or unexpected gift."

Peel, eat, love

Lagniappe Week also means a serving of boiled crawfish. Every year, we prepare more than 15,000 pounds of Louisiana's tasty crustacean.

Red rules

We know the rules! Show your Ragin' Cajun spirit and wear red every Friday. Students, faculty and staff — just about everyone in town — are proud to wear red.

Hot Property

A major campus thoroughfare is known as Wear Red Avenue — just one of the hot spots on campus.

Every day is a red-letter day

That’s because our student-athletes are impressive competitors on the field and in the classroom. More than half have a 3.0 GPA or higher and the Louisiana Ragin' Cajuns football team has the highest GPA in the SunBelt conference.