Tulane University
Tulane University is a private university headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.
An early 20th century view of Tulane's Gibson Hall
The university is home to colleges and schools centered around liberal arts, sciences and the professions. A common Faculty of Liberal Arts and Sciences serves both the men's undergraduate Tulane College and the once-separate women's Newcomb College, also for undergraduates. The professions are organized into the following schools:
- School of Architecture
- A.B. Freeman School of Business
- School of Engineering
- Law School
- School of Medicine
- School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine
- School of Social Work
The student-run radio station of the university is WTUL.
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Campuses
The main campus is over 100 acres (0.4 km²) in uptown New Orleans, near the Audubon Zoo and just a streetcar ride away from downtown. Other locations include:
- the F. Edward Hebert Research Center, near Belle Chasse, Louisiana, which provides facilities for graduate training and research in computer science, bioengineering, and biology;
- Tulane National Primate Research Center in Covington, Louisiana, one of eight such centers funded by the National Institutes of Health;
- Tulane University Health Sciences Center, located downtown, which houses the School of Medicine and the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine;
- the satellite campuses of University College, Tulane's open admissions college, which are located downtown and in Biloxi, Mississippi;
- Houston, Texas, where the business school offers an executive MBA program.