City: New Orleans, LA

Category: Relocation

Telephone: (504) 865-5000

Address: 6823 St. Charles Ave.

Description: Right next door (and basically dwarfing) Loyola is Tulane University’s 110-acre campus, marked by traditional Romanesque and Georgian academic halls dating from the turn of the last century and accented by grassy quadrangles and oak-lined walks. Tulane was established in 1884, when the public University of Louisiana was reorganized as a private school, and named in honor of benefactor Paul Tulane, a wealthy merchant who bequeathed $1 million to endow a university for the city where he had earned his fortune. Two years later, Josephine Louise Newcomb founded Newcomb College at Tulane as a memorial to her daughter, Harriet Sophie. As the first degree-granting women’s college in the nation to be established as a coordinate division of a men’s university, Newcomb became the model for other women’s colleges, including Barnard and Radcliffe. Tulane began with schools of liberal arts and sciences, law, medicine, and graduate studies. Over the years it added schools of architecture, business, social work, public health, and tropical medicine. With 6,749 undergraduate and 4,408 graduate students, Tulane is consistently ranked in the top quarter of major universities and among the top 25 for value by U.S. News & World Report.