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Tulane University is a private university headquartered in New Orleans, Louisiana.
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
Tulane has a separate Graduate School, which offers advanced degrees in engineering, sciences, social sciences, humanities, and the fine arts. It also has a University College which serves the New Orleans community and focuses on continuing education.
Campuses
The main campus is over a hundred acres in uptown New Orleans, near the Audubon Zoo and just a streetcar ride away from downtown. Other locations include:
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.
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