Top 10 things to know about colleges and universities in BR

• Advocate Capitol News Bureau
• Published: Jun 14, 2009

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Local schools

The city is served by the following two public universities and two two-year colleges:

• LSU, the state’s flagship university and the largest college in Louisiana
• Southern University, one of the nation’s largest historically black institutions
• Baton Rouge Community College, one of the country’s fastest-growing community colleges
• Louisiana Technical College, one of the area’s biggest workforce trainers.

Also, Baton Rouge has two private institutions in Our Lady of the Lake College, which offers degrees mostly in health fields, and the for-profit University of Phoenix, which primarily serves older, nontraditional students.

What LSU charges

LSU will charge starting this fall about $5,340 a year in tuition and fees at a campus of nearly 28,200 undergraduate and graduate students.

What LSU offers

LSU offers degrees in the arts, sciences, engineering, business, music, design, education, agriculture and veterinary medicine. The LSU System in Baton Rouge also includes the Paul M. Hebert Law Center, the LSU Agricultural Center and Pennington Biomedical Research Center.

Special recognition

LSU is one of only 21 universities nationwide to be designated a federal land-grant, sea-grant and space-grant institution. LSU is ranked in the top tier of the “Best National Universities,” according to the U.S. News & World Report’s 2009 college rankings guide.

What Southern charges

Southern University will charge about $4,100 for tuition and fees this fall with an enrollment of nearly 7,750 students.

What Southern offers