Southern University and A&M College

Southern University and A&M College is a comprehensive institution offering four-year, graduate, professional, and doctorate degree programs, fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS-COC). The University today is part of the only historically black Land Grant university system in the United States.

With an enrollment of more than 15,000 students throughout five campuses in Louisiana, students come from 46 states and from at least 40 foreign countries. Widespread accomplishments of our faculty, students, and alumni have positively impacted society at every level.

The Southern University System has become one of the nation's rising stars in graduate and undergraduate level education through quality undergraduate, graduate, professional, and research programs among its five campuses.

For new students, the first official contact with the University is often through the Office of Admissions and Recruitment. This unit is responsible for recruiting and admitting undergraduate students to the University.

Responsibilities include the development of effective school relations programs with high schools and community colleges, recruitment of prospective freshmen and undergraduate transfer students, evaluation of academic credit being transferred to the University, the admission of resident and nonresident students to the University, and providing orientation information about the University's important scheduled events.

The mission of Southern University and A&M College includes providing opportunities for a diverse population to achieve a high-quality education. The institution is fully accredited by Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges (SACS-COC) and is proud of its rich heritage of producing highly qualified undergraduate and graduate students in thirty-four undergraduate programs and twenty-two graduate programs. Over ninety-six percent of all academic programs are nationally accredited by specialty area organizations.

The mission of Southern University and A&M College, an Historically Black, 1890 land-grant institution, is to provide opportunities for a diverse student population to achieve a high-quality, global educational experience, to engage in scholarly, research, and creative activities, and to give meaningful public service to the community, the state, the nation, and the world so that Southern University graduates are competent, informed, and productive citizens.

Southern University and A&M College is a historically black college in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. The campus is on Scott’s Bluff overlooking the Mississippi River in the northern section of the city. The campus encompasses 512 acres, with an agricultural experimental station on an additional 372-acre site, five miles north of the main campus. The university is a member-school of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund and the flagship institution of the Southern University System.