Tulane University is one of the country s leading private research institutions. Founded in 1834 in New Orleans, it is home to 11 schools and colleges offering undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees in architecture, business, engineering, law, liberal arts and sciences, medicine, public health and tropical medicine and social work. Undergraduate and graduate enrollment averages more than 13,000 annually. The university was recently named by Kaplan/Newsweek s college guide as one of the nine Hot Schools in the nation. According to U.S. News and World Report, Tulane is among the top 50 national universities in the United States, ranking 43rd in overall quality. University College has satellite campuses in the New Orleans Centre mall in downtown New Orleans, in Elmwood Business Park in Jefferson Parish, La., and in Biloxi, Miss.