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unitid 159391 · Baton Rouge, LA · public 4-year · city (midsize)

Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Public university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, US

founded
1860
enrollment 2023
41,527
predominant degree
Bachelor's
website
lsu.edu/
Campus of Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College

Stuart Adams, stuadams.com · CC BY 3.0

Louisiana State University and Agricultural and Mechanical College, commonly referred to as Louisiana State University (LSU), is an American public land-grant research university in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, United States. The university was founded in 1860 near Pineville, Louisiana, under the name Louisiana State Seminary of Learning & Military Academy. The current LSU main campus was dedicated in 1926 and consists of more than 250 buildings constructed in the style of Italian Renaissance architect Andrea Palladio, occupying a 650-acre (260 ha) plateau on the banks of the Mississippi River. wikipedia rev 1361286241 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within public 4-years

The record

admission rate

73%

32nd pctl among public 4-years

undergraduates

30,594

94th pctl among public 4-years

Pell share

27%

undergrads on Pell grants

32nd pctl among public 4-years

completion

69%

finish within 150% time

88th pctl among public 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$34,705

96th pctl among public 4-years

avg net price / yr

$19,151

after aid, aided students

89th pctl among public 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$61,251

after entry, Title IV students

75th pctl among public 4-years

median grad debt

$20,500

59th pctl among public 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $13,056 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of public 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

  • 0-30k
    25%
  • 30-48k
    16%
  • 48-75k
    14%
  • 75-110k
    15%
  • 110k+
    31%
Median family income
$55,214
First-generation students
27%
In-state tuition & fees
$11,954

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.0× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Teacher Education and Professional Development, Specific Subject Areas.376$64,446$22,728
Biology, General.368$63,433$20,875
Communication and Media Studies.313$58,924$22,875
Business Administration, Management and Operations.308$67,977—
Social Work.290$46,463—
Business Administration, Management and Operations.225$69,796$20,062
Psychology, General.219$54,846$21,500
Marketing.212$64,939$21,500
Construction Management.180$96,044$24,000
Law.175$80,219—
Political Science and Government.165$66,283$19,500
Sports, Kinesiology, and Physical Education/Fitness.159$57,216$23,000

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 3,302 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (657) · basketball player (529) · politician (329) · American football player (299) · lawyer (191) · university teacher (163) · businessperson (103) · baseball player (96)

The portrait wall

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built 2026-07-17

Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1361286241), CC BY-SA 4.0.