Some history about us

The beginning
The university dates from 1834 as the Medical College of Louisiana. With the addition of a law department, it became The University of Louisiana (1847), a public university.

The university closed for three years during the American Civil War, which affected all of the economy. There were some donations that led to the establishment of a Tulane Educational Fund (TEF), whose board of administrators sought to support the University of Louisiana instead of establishing a new university.

In 1894 a College of Technology was formed. In the same year the university moved to its present-day uptown campus on St. Charles Avenue, five miles by streetcar from downtown.

20th Century
In 1901, the cornerstone was laid for the F.W. Tilton Library, endowed by the New Orleans businessman and philanthropist Frederick William Tilton .
An Architecture Department originated within the College of Technology in 1907. One year later, Schools of Dentistry and Pharmacy appeared, both temporarily: Dentistry ended in 1928, and Pharmacy six years later.

In 1958 the university was elected to the Association of American Universities, an organization of leading research universities.

The School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine dates from 1967 and is the oldest school of its kind in the country. Tulane's School of Tropical Medicine is the only one of its kind in the country.

21st Century
In July 2004, Tulane received two $30 million donations to its endowment, the largest individual or combined gifts in the university's history. The donations came from Jim Clark, a member of the university's board of trustees and founder of Netscape, and David Filo, a graduate of its School of Engineering and co-founder of Yahoo!.

A record 34,000 students applied for admission to Tulane's class of 2012. The average SAT score of the class was 1365, marking a rise of approximately 30 points above the average of the class of 2011. In February 2009, the Tulane admissions office reported that it had received approximately 40,000 applications for the class of 2013 and that it expects that the class of 2013 will be the strongest in the university's history, with an average SAT score approaching 1400.



Bibliographies:
http://tulane.edu/
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tulane_University
http://www.nndb.com/edu/582/000068378/