The College of Engineering at Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge has an application deadline of May 15. The application fee is $50 for U.S. residents and $70 for international students. The 2017 Ph.D. student-faculty ratio is 2.3:1. The College of Engineering at Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge has 143 full-time faculty on staff.



The E. J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge (Ourso) offers these departments and concentrations: accounting, consulting, economics, entrepreneurship, finance, health care administration, human resources management, international business, marketing, management information systems, not-for-profit management, public administration, real estate, sports business, supply chain management/logistics, and quantitative analysis/statistics and operations research. Its tuition is full-time: $35,600 total program (in-state); full-time: $69,208 total program (out-of-state); part-time: $48,448 total program (in-state); part-time: $77,930 total program (out-of-state); executive: $57,700 total program (in-state); and executive: $87,450 total program (out-of-state). At graduation, 69.60 percent of graduates of the full-time program are employed.

Students in the E.J. Ourso College of Business at Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge study in the eastern part of the state, just a mile or two from the Mississippi River. LSU students can join more than 350 student organizations, attend an LSU Tigers NCAA Division I sporting event, or check out the nearby 14-acre Hilltop Arboretum, which is free to visit.

Academically, students in the E.J. Ourso College of Business have about a dozen unique business institutes, centers, and initiatives to explore. The Modern Chinese Business and Culture initiative helps prepare students to work with Chinese businesspeople; the Securities Markets Analysis Research and Trading (SMART) Lab simulates a fast-paced market floor; and the Stephenson Disaster Management Institute works to improve the response systems to disasters.

In the classroom, graduate students can earn a full-time Flores M.B.A., or, if they already have significant work experience in the field, a professional or executive M.B.A. The professional M.B.A. is designed for students with at least three years of professional experience, and the classes can be completed either two evenings per week in 22 months, or one evening per week in 44 months.

The executive M.B.A. program is for people with at least five years of professional experience, and can be completed in 17 months by taking one class per month. Students can also earn an M.B.A. along with a J.D. from the LSU Paul M. Hebert Law Center. Other master’s degree programs at the E.J. Ourso College of Business include public administration, economics, finance, accounting, and information systems and decision sciences.

Application deadline May 15




The School of Education at Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge has a rolling application deadline. The application fee for the education program at Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge is $50. The School of Education at Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge has 57 full-time faculty on staff with a 2:1 ratio of full-time equivalent doctoral students to full-time faculty.