unitid 160755 · New Orleans, LA · private nonprofit 4-year · city (large)
Tulane University of Louisiana
Private university in New Orleans, Louisiana, US
- founded
- 1834
- enrollment 2023
- 15,598
- predominant degree
- Bachelor's
- website
- tulane.edu
The Tulane University of Louisiana is a private research university in New Orleans, Louisiana, United States. Founded as the Medical College of Louisiana in 1834 by a cohort of medical doctors, it became a comprehensive public university as the University of Louisiana in 1847. The institution became private under the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1884 and 1887. The Tulane University School of Law and the Tulane University School of Medicine are, respectively, the 12th oldest law school and 15th oldest medical school in the United States. wikipedia rev 1362660670 ↗
scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years
The record
admission rate
14%
5th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
undergraduates
7,767
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
Pell share
10%
undergrads on Pell grants
4th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
completion
86%
finish within 150% time
92nd pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
sticker cost / yr
$87,004
97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
avg net price / yr
$39,949
after aid, aided students
94th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median earnings, 10 yr
$63,268
after entry, Title IV students
76th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years
median grad debt
$20,500
22nd pctl among private nonprofit 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 $16,126 per year after aid.
Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).
Who enrolls, by family income
- 0-30k18%
- 30-48k11%
- 48-75k12%
- 75-110knot reported
- 110k+not reported
- Median family income
- $64,959
- First-generation students
- 18%
- In-state tuition & fees
- $68,678
earnings · debt · programs
Outcomes
Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid
Ten years out, the median graduate earns 3.1× the median graduate debt.
Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.
What programs pay — top fields of study
| program | grads | earn 5 yr | debt |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finance and Financial Management Services. | 288 | $109,495 | $21,500 |
| Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods. | 223 | — | — |
| Law. | 213 | $107,934 | — |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations. | 203 | $105,134 | $19,250 |
| Research and Experimental Psychology. | 194 | — | — |
| Medicine. | 176 | $142,881 | — |
| Marketing. | 174 | $89,664 | $19,500 |
| Health Professions and Related Clinical Sciences, Other. | 161 | $73,281 | $19,500 |
| Social Work. | 160 | $58,865 | — |
| Communication and Media Studies. | 145 | $55,703 | $23,082 |
| Political Science and Government. | 139 | $68,622 | $19,500 |
| Neurobiology and Neurosciences. | 118 | $69,033 | $19,500 |
— 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 · 2,325 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 occupationsbasketball player (507) · researcher (498) · politician (154) · university teacher (140) · lawyer (135) · American football player (98) · physician (61) · writer (60)
The portrait wall
Sized by nothing, ordered by Wikipedia footprint (language editions).
Paul Morphy
64 wikis · Public domain
Newt Gingrich
58 wikis · CC BY-SA 2.0
Luis Guillermo Solís
48 wikis · CC BY-SA 4.0
John Kennedy Toole
42 wikis · Public domain
N. K. Jemisin
40 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Huey Long
38 wikis · Public domain
Douglas G. Hurley
36 wikis · Public domain
Lauren Hutton
35 wikis · CC BY 3.0
David Filo
34 wikis · CC BY 2.0
Shannon Lee
34 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
José Raúl Mulino
34 wikis · Public domain
Michael Ellis DeBakey
33 wikis · Public domain
Ashley Biden
33 wikis · Public domain
Francis George
30 wikis · CC BY-SA 3.0
Jim Garrison
27 wikis · Public domain
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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.
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- Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1362660670), CC BY-SA 4.0.