The Newcomb-Tulane College has administrative oversight for the full-time undergraduate experience and the common core curriculum. The Newcomb-Tulane College comprises all full-time undergraduate programs at the university, including those in architecture, business, liberal arts, public health and tropical medicine, and science and engineering. When a student designates a major, whether that decision is made upon admission or before the end of spring semester of the sophomore year, the student also will be considered a student in the school that houses that major. Ultimately, students simultaneously will be in the Newcomb-Tulane College and a school. For example, a student who majors in cell and molecular biology is in the School of Science and Engineering and the Newcomb-Tulane College. The School of Continuing Studies oversees programs for part-time students.

With this distinctive academic arrangement, students have access to diverse interdisciplinary opportunities and research resources. Tulane has one of the widest combined degree selections available at any university, including joint-degree programs among liberal arts, sciences, engineering, architecture, or business; and between engineering and business at the undergraduate level.

Tulane’s 8-to-1 ratio of students to faculty members, combined with the university’s commitment to excellence in undergraduate education, means that Tulane classrooms are places of intellectual excitement.

The faculty supervises student research projects in every subject area, making Tulane one of the few universities where students can work individually with faculty members throughout their undergraduate years, not just as seniors or graduate students.

Undergraduates make up nearly 60 percent of the student population at Tulane. They come from all 50 states and many other countries, with approximately one-third of full-time first-year students from the Northeast, one-third from the South, and one-third from the West and Midwest.

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