Southern University Law Center
Baton Rouge, LA · Public · 607 undergrads (small, city) · website ↗
- HBCU
- 95% Black undergrads
What you'll actually pay
Average net price per year — tuition, fees, room & board minus grant and scholarship aid — for in-state students by household income.
| Household income | Avg net price / year |
|---|---|
| Under $30,000 | — |
| $30,000 – $48,000 | — |
| $48,000 – $75,000 | — |
| $75,000 – $110,000 | — |
| Over $110,000 | — |
| All incomes (average) | — |
Sticker tuition and fees: — in-state — before aid, from the same earlier College Scorecard release as the net prices above.
These are averages. For an estimate for your family, use Southern University Law Center's own net price calculator — every college that takes federal student aid must publish one.
Net price calculator ↗Admissions & outcomes
- Acceptance rate
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- Average SAT
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- Median ACT
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- Students with Pell grants
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- Graduation rate (6yr)
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- Freshman retention
- 61%
- Median earnings @ 10yr
- $43,371
- Median debt at graduation
- $29,251
- International undergrads
- —
For comparison, the median across all 1,596 four-year colleges on this site: graduation rate 56%, earnings ten years after entering $54,869, debt at graduation $23,250.
Admission policy, test scores and teaching
- SAT/ACT policy
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- Application fee
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- Students per faculty member
- 21 to 1
- Faculty who are full-time
- 47%
not reported
undergraduate, 2023–24
undergraduates, fall 2024
fall 2024
What the college considers in admission decisions, fall 2023
Not reported.
IPEDS, U.S. Department of Education, Admissions 2023–24 (ADM2023, provisional release), fall 2023; open admission from IPEDS Institutional Characteristics 2023–24 (revised); public domain.
Most popular fields of study
Share of bachelor's degrees awarded.
Earnings and debt by field of study
Median annual earnings of graduates who received federal student aid and were working, not studying: one year after completing (graduates of 2020–21 and 2021–22) and four years after (2017–18 and 2018–19), measured in 2022 and 2023 and shown in 2024 dollars. Median debt is federal Direct and Grad PLUS loans borrowed at this college by 2022–23 and 2023–24 graduates; it leaves out Parent PLUS and private loans. “National” is the median for the same field and credential across all US colleges.
Bachelor's degrees (21)
| Field of study | Degrees awarded 2023–24 | Earnings, 1 yr after | Earnings, 4 yrs after | Median federal debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing | 20 | $77,540 | $86,838national $88,910 | $31,000 |
| Criminal Justice and Corrections | 15 | $36,896 | $49,609national $55,378 | $27,167 |
| Business Administration, Management and Operations | 10 | $43,483 | $48,716national $68,257 | $28,000 |
| Multi/Interdisciplinary Studies, Other | 7 | $42,289 | $50,616national $55,693 | $33,592 |
| Psychology, General | 7 | $34,598 | $41,901national $50,706 | $31,000 |
| Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions | 7 | $36,770 | $41,311national $55,792 | $31,000 |
| Biology, General | 6 | — | $44,880national $57,214 | $26,250 |
| Communication and Media Studies | 5 | $34,694 | $48,264national $56,359 | $29,900 |
| Agriculture, General | 4 | — | —national $53,676 | $26,350 |
| Mechanical Engineering | 4 | $75,835 | $92,969national $92,135 | $29,250 |
| Social Work | 4 | $30,992 | $52,217national $51,790 | $31,000 |
| Communication Disorders Sciences and Services | 4 | $34,760 | $51,611national $58,928 | $28,125 |
| Civil Engineering | 3 | $69,334 | $68,016national $86,517 | $34,535 |
| Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences, General | 3 | $35,116 | $48,596national $48,460 | $28,000 |
| Sociology | 3 | $40,945 | $43,844national $52,657 | $26,125 |
| Marketing | 3 | $43,469 | $56,097national $69,303 | $28,750 |
| Computer Science | 2 | $63,190 | $58,951national $107,009 | $31,000 |
| Political Science and Government | 2 | $37,995 | —national $63,293 | $28,875 |
| Accounting and Related Services | 2 | — | $53,159national $76,194 | $25,500 |
| Finance and Financial Management Services | 2 | — | —national $83,343 | $26,875 |
| Electrical, Electronics, and Communications Engineering | 1 | — | —national $100,647 | $30,500 |
Master's degrees (6)
| Field of study | Degrees awarded 2023–24 | Earnings, 1 yr after | Earnings, 4 yrs after | Median federal debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Business Administration, Management and Operations | 12 | $61,107 | $73,081national $103,485 | $41,000 |
| Criminal Justice and Corrections | 4 | $44,793 | $56,111national $66,714 | $27,333 |
| Communication Disorders Sciences and Services | 4 | $50,057 | $64,924national $67,030 | $47,131 |
| Public Administration | 2 | $51,540 | $55,482national $81,408 | $32,730 |
| Clinical, Counseling and Applied Psychology | — | $51,254 | $49,918national $65,184 | — |
| Registered Nursing, Nursing Administration, Nursing Research and Clinical Nursing | 0 | $101,569 | $120,049national $120,193 | $41,000 |
First professional degrees (1)
| Field of study | Degrees awarded 2023–24 | Earnings, 1 yr after | Earnings, 4 yrs after | Median federal debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Law | 46 | $53,279 | $67,462national $107,773 | $127,635 |
Doctoral degrees (1)
| Field of study | Degrees awarded 2023–24 | Earnings, 1 yr after | Earnings, 4 yrs after | Median federal debt |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Public Policy Analysis | 3 | — | —national $119,220 | $42,888 |
A dash means the Department of Education suppressed the figure because too few graduates were measured — not zero. 29 more programmes at this college have every figure suppressed and are not listed. These figures are calculated for all 2 campuses that share this college's federal student-aid ID, so a branch campus shows its institution's figures.
Contact and accreditation
- Address
- PO Box 9294, Baton Rouge, LA 70813
- Phone
- (225) 771-2552
- Institutional accreditor
- Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
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Find my matches →Sources: U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard (most recent cohorts) and IPEDS Fall Enrolment for international student counts. College Scorecard, October 2026 release: net price calculator link, mission flags and religious affiliation (2025–26), enrolment shares, test policy, SAT/ACT ranges and student-to-faculty ratio (fall 2024), cost-of-attendance components (2025–26), and earnings and debt by field of study. IPEDS Institutional Characteristics 2023–24 for the application fee and the IPEDS 2024 directory for the phone number. IPEDS Admissions 2023–24 (ADM2023, provisional release) for admission requirements and first-time applicants, admits and enrolments (fall 2023). IPEDS Student Financial Aid 2022–23 (SFA2223, provisional release) for grants and loans to full-time, first-time students. All are U.S. Department of Education data in the public domain. Verify current costs and requirements with the school.
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