Louisiana State University

Louisiana State University is Louisiana's flagship public land-grant university, in Baton Rouge. It opened in 1860 as the Louisiana State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy in Pineville, later moved to Baton Rouge, and took its present campus in a 1920s expansion. It is a land-grant, sea-grant, and space-grant institution on a large campus along the Mississippi River.

Colleges include Agriculture, Engineering, Science, Humanities and Social Sciences, Business, Human Sciences and Education, Art and Design, Music and Dramatic Arts, the Manship School of Mass Communication, the College of the Coast and Environment, Law, and Veterinary Medicine. The Pennington Biomedical Research Center is a major research site. Coastal and environmental science, petroleum and chemical engineering, agriculture, and mass communication are core graduate fields.

LSU enrolls about 35,000 students in Baton Rouge, including several thousand graduate and professional students. International students are a modest share and come from more than 100 countries. Faculty number more than 1,500. Alumni include political consultant James Carville, former U.S. Senator John Breaux, and basketball player Shaquille O'Neal.

Graduate study includes research PhDs, professional degrees in law and veterinary medicine, and research master's work. Supervision is departmental, with laboratory and field components in agriculture and coastal science. The calendar is a U.S. semester year. Assistantships and research grants are the usual doctoral support. Baton Rouge is a state capital, and graduate life centers on the main campus and nearby neighborhoods.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Louisiana State University lists 7 graduate programs across 7 subjects: 1 master's program and 6 doctoral programs, with the widest choice in accounting, economics and finance & financial economics.