About Southern University

Southern University and A&M College (Southern University, Southern, SUBR or SU) is a public historically black land-grant college circles in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. It is the largest historically black intellectual or university (HBCU) in Louisiana, a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund, and the flagship institution of the Southern University System. Its campus encompasses 512 acres, with an agricultural experimental station on an extra 372-acre site, five miles north of the main campus on Scott’s Bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in the northern section of Baton Rouge.

Southern University’s 13 intercollegiate athletics teams are known as the Jaguars, and are members of the Southwestern Athletic Conference (SWAC) in NCAA Division I. The Human Jukebox is a with ease known collegiate marching band that has been representing the academic circles since 1947.

Baton Rouge (/ˌbætən ˈruːʒ/ BAT-ən ROOZH; from French Bâton-Rouge ‘red stick’) is the capital city of the U.S. state of Louisiana. On the eastern bank of the Mississippi River, it is the parish chair of East Baton Rouge Parish, the most-populous parish in Louisiana. Since 2019, the city of Baton Rouge has been the 100th-most-populous city in the United States, and second-largest city in Louisiana after New Orleans. It is after that the 16th-most-populous divulge capital. As of the U.S. Census Bureau’s July 2019 estimate, Baton Rouge had a population of 220,236, down from 229,493 at the 2010 U.S. census. The city of Baton Rouge is the center of the Greater Baton Rouge area, the second-largest metropolitan Place in Louisiana, with a population of 834,159 as of 2017, up from 802,484 in 2010 and 829,719 in 2015.

The Baton Rouge Place owes its historical importance to its strategic site on the Istrouma Bluff, the first natural bluff upriver from the Mississippi River Delta at the Gulf of Mexico. This allowed move on of a situation quarter secure from seasonal flooding. In addition, the city built a levee system stretching from the bluff southward to protect the riverfront and low-lying agricultural areas. The city is a culturally rich center, with agreement by immigrants from numerous European nations and African peoples brought to North America as slaves or indentured servants. It was ruled by seven alternative governments: French, British, and Spanish in the colonial era; the Republic of West Florida, as a United States territory and state, Confederate, and United States once again since the terminate of the American Civil War.

The city of Baton Rouge is a major industrial, petrochemical, medical, research, motion picture, and growing technology center of the American South. It is the location of Louisiana State University, the LSU System’s flagship university circles and the largest institution of progressive education in the state. It is plus the location of Southern University, the flagship institution of the Southern University System, the unaided historically black studious system in the United States. The Port of Greater Baton Rouge is the 10th-largest in the U.S. in terms of tonnage shipped, and is the farthest upstream Mississippi River harbor capable of handling Panamax ships. Major corporations participating in the economy of Baton Rouge and its metropolitan statistical area include Lamar Advertising Company, BBQGuys, Marucci Sports, Piccadilly Restaurants, Raising Cane’s Chicken Fingers, ExxonMobil, and Dow Chemical Company.