The United States is a nation of immigrants, both recent arrivals and longtime residents. Perhaps nowhere is this more evident than in Louisiana.
Home to Louisiana Creole culture, Acadian culture, and Isleno culture, among others (representing unique mixes from people groups all over the world) this is truly a melting pot of a state and a melting pot that has preserved the distinct flavors of all the different ingredients (kind of like good jambalaya). And we shouldn't neglect to mention the original inhabitants of the state either. In fact, Louisiana can lay claim to having more Native American tribes than any other Southern state. Given all of this, we shouldn't be surprised to find this clause written into the state constitution: "the right of the people to preserve, foster, and promote their respective historic, linguistic, and cultural origins."
With broad cultural diversity in Louisiana, you shouldn't be surprised to find broad diversity in terms of colleges and universities in the state. You can find large research universities and small liberal arts colleges, public and private. For the Best Online Schools in Louisiana, see our ranking. You might have a defined idea of what you're looking for, but it's good to keep an open mind. For example, even if you're looking to save as much money as possible, you shouldn't necessarily write off the private institutions. Some offer scholarships and financial aid packages that make them competitive with the public schools.
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What are the best colleges in Louisiana?
Now that you're ready to look at the Louisiana colleges, you're probably wondering how we got our rankings. Well, our list is comprised of three main factors: academic quality, student body diversity, and return on investment. Academic quality is measured through a variety of data points, including the test scores of incoming freshmen, student-to-faculty ratio, and endowment size. Return on investment is a measurement of total cost of attendance against expected early career salary. All of our data comes from the IPEDS database, courtesy of the National Center for Education Statistics.
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