Louisiana Tech University is a public institution that was founded in the year 1894. It has undergraduate enrollment of around 8,978, its setting is rural, and the campus size is 1,451 acres. The University has a quarter-based academic calendar. Louisiana Tech University is ranked in the 2012 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities.
The university confers associates, bachelors and master's degrees from its five academic colleges. Additionally, LA Tech provides doctoral degrees in business administration, audiology, counseling psychology (accredited by American Psychological Association), industrial/organizational psychology, computational analysis and modeling and biomedical engineering, engineering, with joint MD/PhD program with Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Shreveport.
Louisiana Tech fields 16 varsity NCAA Division I sports teams and has been a member of the Western Athletic Conference since the year 2001. The university has accepted an invitation to join Conference USA starting in the year 2013. The university is renowned for its football team and Lady Techsters women's basketball program which winner of three national championship titles ( in the year1981, 1982, 1988) and made 13 Final Four appearances in program's history.
Campus Location
700 W. California Avenue
Ruston, LA 71272
General Information
School type-public, coed college
Year founded-1894
Religious affiliation-N/A
Academic calendar-quarter
Setting-rural