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Best Education Colleges in Louisiana
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This ranking scores 11 institutions on graduation rates, graduate earnings, debt burdens, and social mobility data from Opportunity Insights. Every data point comes from federal sources. No surveys, no opinions.
Social mobility carries the heaviest weight in our algorithm. We use Raj Chetty's Mobility Report Card — built on 30 million anonymized tax records — to measure whether a college changes a family's economic trajectory across generations. Schools that take low-income students and launch them into higher earnings rank higher than schools that admit wealthy students and take credit for their success.
The transparency penalty matters here. Schools that don't report their data get scored lower than schools that do. If an institution won't show you its numbers, we think you should know that before you write them a tuition check.
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Education programs in Louisiana ranked by outcomes and program concentration
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Each dot is a ranked school. Up = higher earnings. Right = higher cost. Top-left is the best value.
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Longer bars = higher graduation rate.
Top 3
University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA
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Nicholls State University
Thibodaux, LA
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University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA
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University of Louisiana at Lafayette
Lafayette, LA · 12,428 students · Public
Nicholls State University
Thibodaux, LA · 4,737 students · Public
University of New Orleans
New Orleans, LA · 4,638 students · Public
Southeastern Louisiana University
Hammond, LA · 9,514 students · Public
University of Louisiana at Monroe
Monroe, LA · 5,022 students · Public
Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College
Baton Rouge, LA · 30,594 students · Public
Southern University at New Orleans
New Orleans, LA · 1,055 students · Public
Louisiana Christian University
Pineville, LA · 672 students · Private nonprofit
Grambling State University
Grambling, LA · 4,164 students · Public
Louisiana State University-Alexandria
Alexandria, LA · 5,632 students · Public
University of Holy Cross
New Orleans, LA · 471 students · Private nonprofit
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David Krug
Co-Founder, CollegeRanker
David Krug is the co-founder of CollegeRanker and a data systems architect focused on making institutional research accessible to families. He builds the data pipelines and ranking algorithms that power CollegeRanker, drawing from federal datasets and Raj Chetty's Opportunity Insights research to measure what traditional rankings ignore: whether a college actually changes a family's economic trajectory.
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