Largest engineering schools in Louisiana by degrees awarded
9 engineering schools in Louisiana awarded 1,164 bachelor’s degrees in engineering to first majors from July 2024 to June 2025, by NCES’s count: 29th of the 51 states and DC with a engineering school. Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College awarded the most, 519. An engineering school here is a college that awarded at least one bachelor’s degree in any program of NCES’s CIP family 14, Engineering. The rule is broad by construction: every engineering discipline counts, and engineering technology (CIP 15) does not.
Bachelor’s degrees in engineering awarded · July 2024 to June 2025, NCES’s 2025–26 collection
| Rank | Name | bachelor’s degrees in engineering | Nationally |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Louisiana State University and Agricultural & Mechanical College | 519 | 63rd of 680 |
| 2 | Louisiana Tech University | 213 | 167th of 680 |
| 3 | University of Louisiana at Lafayette | 146 | 208th of 680 |
| 4 | University of New Orleans | 127 | 224th of 680 |
| 5 | McNeese State University | 68 | 293rd of 680 |
| 6 | Tulane University of Louisiana | 54 | 317th of 680 |
| 7 | Southern University and A & M College | 35 | 369th of 680 |
| 8 | Nicholls State University | 1 | 648th of 680 |
| 8 | Xavier University of Louisiana | 1 | 648th of 680 |
What this data cannot show
- How a college is organized or accredited is not in NCES’s completions file: a college is of this type because of the degrees it reported, and a university’s whole count is here whichever of its schools awarded them.
- First majors only. NCES counts a graduate with two majors under each; this counts each degree once, under the first.
- Colleges that awarded the same number share a rank.
- The 2025–26 collection is NCES’s newest. Its first release is provisional: institutions’ corrections arrive with the revised file about a year later. NCES imputes the awards of an institution that did not respond, and this table does not mark which.
- Every institution in Louisiana in NCES’s file that awarded these degrees has a college page here, and is in the table.
- The state is the one NCES files the college under; a campus in another state is ranked there.
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Sources
- Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26 collection — National Center for Education Statistics, U.S. Department of Education · U.S. Government work · retrieved September 25, 2026
SOURCE: U.S. Department of Education, National Center for Education Statistics, Integrated Postsecondary Education Data System (IPEDS), 2025–26.
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