About Tulane University

Tulane University is a private research the academy in New Orleans, Louisiana. It was founded as a public medical educational in 1834 and became a comprehensive academic circles in 1847. The institution became private below the endowments of Paul Tulane and Josephine Louise Newcomb in 1884. Tulane is the 9th oldest private academe in the Association of American Universities, which includes major research universities in the United States and Canada. The Tulane University Law School and Tulane University Medical School are, respectively, the 12th oldest law moot and 15th oldest medical educational in the United States.

Alumni insert a former President of Costa Rica; twelve governors of Louisiana; one Chief Justice of the United States; various members of Congress, including one Speaker of the House; two Surgeons General of the United States; 23 Marshall Scholars; 18 Rhodes Scholars; 12 Truman Scholars; 155 Fulbright Scholars; and four buzzing billionaires.[citation needed] Two Nobel laureates have been affiliated past the university.

New Orleans (/ˈɔːrl(i)ənz, ɔːrˈliːnz/, locally /ˈɔːrlənz/; French: La Nouvelle-Orléans [la nuvɛlɔʁleɑ̃] (listen)) is a consolidated city-parish located along the Mississippi River in the southeastern region of the U.S. state of Louisiana. With an estimated population of 390,144 in 2019, it is the most populous city in Louisiana. Serving as a major port, New Orleans is considered an economic and commercial hub for the broader Gulf Coast region of the United States.

New Orleans is world-renowned for its distinct music, Creole cuisine, unique dialects, and its annual celebrations and festivals, most notably Mardi Gras. The historic heart of the city is the French Quarter, known for its French and Spanish Creole architecture and vibrant nightlife along Bourbon Street. The city has been described as the “most unique” in the United States, owing in large allowance to its cross-cultural and multilingual heritage. Additionally, New Orleans has increasingly been known as “Hollywood South” due to its prominent role in the film industry and in pop culture.

Founded in 1718 by French colonists, New Orleans was afterward the territorial capital of French Louisiana past being traded to the United States in the Louisiana Purchase of 1803. New Orleans in 1840 was the third-most populous city in the United States, and it was the largest city in the American South from the Antebellum epoch until after World War II. The city has historically been very vulnerable to flooding, due to its tall rainfall, low lying elevation, poor natural drainage, and proximity to fused bodies of water. State and federal authorities have installed a profound system of levees and drainage pumps in an effort to protect the city.

New Orleans was highly affected by Hurricane Katrina in August 2005, which flooded greater than 80% of the city, killed on summit of 1,800 people, and displaced thousands of residents, causing a population decrease of higher than 50%. Since Katrina, major redevelopment efforts have led to a rebound in the city’s population. Concerns practically gentrification, new residents buying property in formerly contiguously knit communities, and displacement of longtime residents have been expressed.

The city and Orleans Parish (French: paroisse d’Orléans) are coterminous. As of 2017, Orleans Parish is the third most-populous parish in Louisiana, behind East Baton Rouge Parish and adjacent to Jefferson Parish. The city and parish are bounded by St. Tammany Parish and Lake Pontchartrain to the north, St. Bernard Parish and Lake Borgne to the east, Plaquemines Parish to the south, and Jefferson Parish to the south and west.

The city anchors the larger Greater New Orleans metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 1,270,530 in 2019. Greater New Orleans is the most populous metropolitan statistical area in Louisiana and the 45th-most populous MSA in the United States.