Tulane Admission

The School of Architecture was founded in 1907.  In the 2006-2007 academic year there are 276 undergraduate students enrolled in the school. The design studio is central to Tulane’s architectural curriculum, but the curriculum also gives students a broad liberal arts background. Unlike many other five year architecture programs, first years will jump into studio to get a “hands on” experience from the start. Also, there is an Architectural Studies minor for students who complete the first-year curriculum and decide to pursue a different major.

The School of Architecture offers an accredited five-year first professional degree program leading to the Master of Architecture.

The School of Architecture also offers a study abroad program and, like other schools within Tulane, strongly encourages their students to study abroad.

Students in the Liberal Arts may double or even triple major across schools.  Students will choose a primary major, and this will be the school they are technically placed in for administrative purposes.  Student who double or triple major must only meet the core requirements of the primary major/school.

The core curriculum provides a common academic experience to undergraduates across all schools.  It ensures the attainment of basic competencies in writing, foreign language, scientific inquiry, cultural knowledge, and interdisciplinary scholarship.  As part of the core curriculum, students will be required to take TIDES, the freshmen interdisciplinary seminar series, as well as complete a public service requirement.

All Tulane undergraduates will share a common Core Curriculum designed to ensure basic competency in the following areas:

• Writing (4 hours);
• Foreign Language (8 hours);
• Scientific Inquiry (9–12 hours comprising Quantitative Reasoning, Physical Science and a Life Science, one of which contains a laboratory  component);
• Cultural Knowledge (12 hours comprising six hours of Humanities and Fine Arts and six of Social Sciences);
• Public Service (2-3 hours, 2 separate components);
• Understanding Interdisciplinary Scholarship (1 hour–TIDES seminar); and
• Capstone Experience (3-plus hours, to be designed by the schools and  departments and intended to allow students to demonstrate the capacity to bring information, skills and ideas acquired from their majors to bear on one significant project).

The A.B. Freeman School of Business was founded 1914. The 2006-2007 enrollment of the School of Business is 883 undergraduate students.

Under the innovative curriculum introduced in 1992, the Freeman School permits greater flexibility in the selection of courses and minor fields and emphasizes more strongly ethics, leadership, and communication skills. BSM students may specialize in one of six areas: accounting, finance, legal studies in business, managing human capital, consumer behavior-marketing, strategy and entrepreneurship.

Representatives from companies such as Bank One, Entergy, Ernst and Young, JPMorgan, KPMG, Morgan Keegan, PricewaterhouseCoopers and Saks travel to campus to recruit Tulane undergraduates.    Each year, over 120 companies across the country request resumes from the A.B. Freeman career center.  Starting in 2008, the students entering the business school must have laptops that meet specific requirements.

The School of Liberal Arts houses academic departments and programs in the fine arts, social sciences, and humanities.  The School is home to over 200 faculty and 2,236 students.  The School of Liberal Arts contains 17 departments and 19 interdisciplinary programs, and it is organized into three divisions: Humanities, Fine Arts, and Social Sciences.

The School of Science and Engineering combines renowned engineering programs with five distinct divisions of the sciences.  Science and Engineering students pursue undergraduate and advanced degrees in Biomedical, Chemical and Biomolecular engineering, and Engineering Physics, as well as traditional scientific disciplines.  Science and Engineering students have the opportunity to select an additional major or minor in one of Tulane’s other schools. There are 1,369 undergraduates enrolled for 2006-2007.  The disciplines of Science and Engineering are combining resources to look toward the future and continue in-depth research which undergraduates are always welcomed to participate in.

Each degree has a different number of credit hours to be earned in order to graduate.  Typically, a student must have at least 120 hours to graduate with at least 60 of those hours going towards their major.

Both!  Students should have taken two to three years of a foreign language in high school. Once a student is at Tulane they will be required to have the equivalent of 8 or 12 hours of foreign language, depending on their major.

Correspondence Courses and or CLEP (College Level Examination Program) credits are not accepted.
For dual enrollment programs, the student must be on a college campus in a class with college students being taught by a college professor. If this is the case, the individual courses will be reviewed by different departments to see if they are similar to any courses that Tulane offers. If they are, they credit will transfer.

There are joint degree programs with Liberal Arts, Business, Law, Medicine & Public Health and Tropical Medicine.  We offer a 6-year Bach/JD and 5-year BA/MBA program for outstanding students.  Typically, these students have entered Tulane with sophomore standing and are therefore able to complete required courses ahead of schedule.

Several 4+1 programs for Liberal Arts and Science and Engineers majors are offered. These programs allow students to stay for a fifth year to get their Masters.  Tuition is reduced to half for the final year. 4+1:  Anthropology, Art History, Classics, Environmental Biology, Environmental Science, English, History, Latin American Studies, Linguistics, Music, Neuroscience, Philosophy, Physics, Psychology, Public Health, Science and Engineering, Spanish/Portuguese, and Theater and Dance.

A student with a 3.00 cumulative GPA may construct a major program by grouping courses from different academic departments.  Such self-designed majors must include at least 10 courses, more than half of which must be at or above the 300 level and with no more than two courses below the 300 level taken in any one department. Majors such as Linguistics and Neuroscience were developed from students designing their own majors.

QUICK FACTS:  ACCEPTANCE RATES

• National: 59%

• Tulane: 90% of Tulane University’s applicants who worked with the Pre-professional Advising Office gained admission to at least one law school.

Tulane Law School received 2500 applications for 275 seats in the 2006 entering class.  Between one quarter and one third of applicants are typically offered admission.   During the 2006-07 application season, 119 Tulane University students applied for admission, and 52 of those applications were accepted.  Tulane University undergraduates enjoyed a 44% acceptance rate in the applicant pool for the Tulane Law School Class of 2010, reflecting the strong credentials of the Tulane applicants.

Academic Preparation

Tulane University neither requires nor recommends a prescribed Pre-law major or curriculum.  “Pre-law” simply notes a student’s intention to pursue admission to law school following completion of a baccalaureate degree.

In planning a pre-law curriculum, note that spoken and written words are the principal tools of the legal profession.  Students who intend to study law must develop an excellent knowledge and grasp of the English language, as well as a clear and concise style of expression.

In choosing a major, students should concentrate in a discipline which holds genuine interest for them and one that will motivate them to be most productive.  The range of undergraduate majors is broad; students should seek intensity and depth in an undergraduate program, thereby demonstrating a capacity to perform well at an academically rigorous level.