Tulane University

The Tulane University of Louisiana, more often referred to simply as Tulane University, is a private research institution located in New Orleans, Louisiana. In 1834, seven aspiring young physicians established what would become known as the Medical College of Louisiana. Seven years later, in 1847, the state government transformed the institution into the University of Louisiana, a comprehensive public university. Between 1884 and 1887, Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb made the decision to endow the university, which led to its transition from a public to a private status. Both the Law School and the Medical School at Tulane University are considered to be among the nation's oldest institutions of their kind. The Law School at Tulane University is the 12th oldest law school, while the Medical School at Tulane University is the 15th oldest medical school. Since 1958, Tulane University has been a member of the Association of American Universities, and it now has a place in the category of "R1: Doctoral Universities - Extremely high research activity."

Tulane has an acceptance rate that is 8.4% of applicants overall. Alumni include a former President of Costa Rica, as well as twelve current governors of Louisiana, one Chief Justice of the United States, various members of Congress, including a Speaker of the United States House, two Surgeons General of the United States, 23 Marshall Scholars, 18 Rhodes Scholars, 15 Truman Scholars, 155 Fulbright Scholars, and four living billionaires. There have been two people who have won the Nobel Prize while working at the university.

In 1834, when it was still known as the Medical College of Louisiana, the institution was established in part because of concerns over the spread of cholera, smallpox, and yellow fever throughout the United States. The university's medical school was just the second one to be established in the South at the time, and it was the 15th in the United States overall. The institution was designated as a public university and given its current name, the University of Louisiana, by the state legislature in the year 1847. At that time, the university also had a school of law. After then, in the year 1851, the university formed the very first academic department that it would later have. Francis Lister Hawks, who was at the time an Episcopal priest and a prominent citizen of New Orleans, was the first person to be selected to serve as the president of the brand new institution.