Why Tulane

We’d completely burn up your data plan if we listed every reason. But as long as you’re asking, we’ll warm you up with a few:

• Because Tulane offers one of the most flexible degree programs around. Once you’re admitted you can take classes in any of our undergraduate schools. Many of our students double- or even triple- major.
• Because you’re personally going to ensure this place will be better off when you leave than when you arrive. All of our students participate in community engagement before graduating.
• Because you can take classes like “New Orleans Cities of the Dead,” about cemetery architecture, or “The Music and Culture of New Orleans,” or “Creative Entrepreneurship in the Big Easy” as part of our TIDES (Tulane Inter-­Disciplinary Experience Seminars) freshman seminars. The classes are cool ­ but the way so much of what we do is woven into the fabric of our city is even cooler.
• Because we’ve got a food truck—a food truck!—on our meal plan. (And it’s named Roulez, which is pretty clever, if you ask us.)
• Because you and your friends are going places: 33 percent of our students study abroad during your time here. (You’re coming from places, too: Tulanians come from 58 countries and all 50 states.)
• Because we do our best to make a Tulane education affordable: The average student with demonstrated financial need receives more than $40,000 in financial aid.
• Because you’ll be set up for success: our Career Services Center has information and job postings for more than 1,600 companies. If continuing your education is in your plans, Tulane offers 18 different 4+1 Master’s programs in the Liberal Arts and Science & Engineering. And our graduates are above the national average when it comes to applying to law and medical schools.

And that’s just for starters. Feel free to rattle off any of those when you tell your friends why you’re ready to go 923 miles to get to college (that’s the average distance our students travel to get here, and come to think of it, why aren’t your friends coming here, too?)

If you need more than bullet points to make a huge decision like where to go to college, though, chew on this.

You’ve probably figured out that we have the “life” part of “school-­life balance” down. The Princeton Review has us near the top of the list for Best College City, Best Quality of Life and Happiest Students. But the “school” part is pretty amazing, too. You’ll learn from faculty like James Carville, the political wizard, and hear from guests like the Dalai Lama. You’ll have a chance to explore a city that was founded almost 300 years ago (but which has roots that go back even farther). And with an alumni network of 140,000 people, many of whom are leaders in fields as diverse as you’d expect from a place with 1,700 courses and more than 70 majors, you’ll always have an in somewhere. And while it’s great to have a network, we also know our students are more than capable of doing great things on their own: Seventy employers attend Tulane career fairs, and the average starting salary for 2013 graduates was almost $50,000.