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Academics and Student LifeThe Manship School of Mass Communication’s doctoral program, unique in its focus on media and politics, is ranked as one of the top 10 programs in the nation for research productivity by the publication Academic Analytics. For the third consecutive year, the LSU Robert S. Reich School of Landscape Architecture is ranked among the top five schools in the nation by DesignIntelligence, the leading journal of the design professions. According to the results of the 2008 survey, the school has the number two ranked undergraduate and graduate programs in landscape architecture in the United States. In 2007, the E. J. Ourso College of Business Flores MBA Program was ranked seventh in the nation by the Wall Street Journal among schools that draw corporate recruiters regionally. LSU’s new aid program, Pelican Promise, will help offset educational costs and provide a safety net for the most disadvantaged students. Students living below 150 percent of poverty level and are Pell Grant eligible will receive assistance to cover total cost of attendance. In 2006, LSU students were awarded 56.2 million dollars in need-based aid. In the 2005-06 academic year, 21,319 full-time jobs were posted to LSU’s Career Services Web site—that's almost one job for each undergraduate student. Of May 2006 LSU graduates who responded to a six-month follow-up survey, 99% were employed, had employment offers, or were planning to attend graduate or professional school. LSU is the state’s flagship university and has more than 250 student organizations, 235 academic fields of study, and 29,317 students. According to The Princeton Review and Campus Compact's 2005 Colleges with a Conscience, LSU is one of the nation's best colleges for fostering social responsibility and social service. Since its first commencement in 1869, LSU has awarded more than 205,000 degrees. The University produces about 25 percent of Louisiana’s baccalaureate graduates, approximately 24 percent of the master’s graduates, and about 52 percent of the doctoral graduates. LSU's Information Technology Residential College, or ITRC, was selected by the National Association of Student Personnel Administrators, or NASPA, as the Gold Award winner in the housing/residence life category of the 2006 NASPA Excellence Awards. LSU has produced a number of distinguished undergraduates, including four Marshall Scholars, 20 Goldwater Scholars, 14 Rhodes Scholars, three Truman Scholars, and more than 25 Fulbright Scholars. LSU is one of only 19 schools in the United States to offer the Howard Hughes Medical Institute's Professors Program to students. Unlike many of the other schools with the HHMI Professors Program, LSU's program relies heavily on mentoring and teaching the dynamics of peer mentoring. The fall entering class of 2006 had an average ACT of 25.1, SAT of 1183, and gpa of 3.40/4.0. LSU’s School of Veterinary Medicine is one of only 28 in the United States. The LSU Honors College's Modern Chinese Business and Culture program is one of the first in the nation to offer study abroad programs to pre-freshmen. LSU has increased admission standards six times in recent years, and each time, the number of student applications has increased. The LSU Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing is one of the most successful programs of its kind in the south. Sixty works have been published by its graduates since the program's inception in 1987. The books have won numerous national awards, and have been on the lists of nearly every major publishing group in New York, including Penguin/Putnam, Norton, Macmillan, Harper & Row, Harper Collins, Workman, and Little Brown. Each year, the Laboratory for Creative Arts & Technologies at LSU’s Center for Computation & Technology hosts the Red Stick International Animation Festival. Activities of the festival include film screenings, workshops and lectures from leading animators in the entertainment industry. The LSU Honors College curriculum is designed to provide high-achieving students with courses suited to their academic skills. Honors courses are smaller than regular classes, and provide closer contact with faculty who, like honors students, are chosen from among the best at LSU. The Chancellor’s Future Leaders in Research Program, one of the many research opportunities available at LSU, offers competitive freshman the opportunity to be a direct participant in the research of a faculty member for four years. The geography program at LSU is one of the top 20 in the nation according to the National Research Council. LSU’s Center for Internal Auditing, or CIA, program has been the international leader in internal audit education since 1985. LSU established the first "hurricane engineering" curriculum in the world to educate students in the technical aspects of preparing for a natural disaster. The LSU Department of Biological Sciences directs the foremost graduate program in museum-based ornithology in the world. The LSU Museum of Natural Science is currently one of the nation's largest natural history museums, with holdings of over 2.5 million specimens and is the only comprehensive research museum in the south-central United States. The LSU Department of English’s Louisiana Shakespeare Project has partnered with London’s Globe Theatre since 2005. In 2005, "Entrepreneur" magazine ranked the E. J. Ourso College of Business's Entrepreneurship Institute among the nation's top 50 comprehensive entrepreneurship programs in the nation. LSU's instructional programs include 71 bachelor's, 72 master's, and 54 doctoral degrees.
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