Louisiana Tech University

"At Tech you'll belong. Tech is family." That's how one graduate described the Louisiana Tech experience. With its reputation for offering a private-college atmosphere at a public university, this selective-admissions university is dedicated to challenging its students through the efforts of caring faculty who are passionate about teaching, advising, and research. Founded in 1894, Tech offers a wide variety of bachelors, masters and doctoral-level programs with unique opportunities in fields such as architecture, aviation, engineering, biological sciences, business, and education. Tech also offers innovative graduate degree programs in molecular science and nanotechnology, and health information systems, and doctoral degrees in biomedical engineering, audiology, counseling psychology and business administration. With an emphasis on interdisciplinary research and highly-qualified faculty, Tech is the only Carnegie Doctoral Research University and SREB Four-Year 2 Research University in north Louisiana. Tech's commitment to its students has helped them to achieve some of the highest graduation and a time-to-completion rates in the state.

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school_type year_founded religious_affiliation academic_calendar year_2016_endowment address telephone
Public, Coed 1894 N/A Quarter $72.2 million 700 W. California Avenue, Ruston, LA 71272 (318) 257-0211
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28 100.0 Louisiana Ruston 205 200