Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center-Shreveport

Public · LA

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School data & stats

TypePublic

LocationLA · South

SettingUrban

Undergrads21

Student:faculty3:1

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Community

Racial diversity47.6%

Gender diversity76.2%

International0%

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Overview

LSU Health Sciences Center-Shreveport is the LSU System's academic medical center in northwest Louisiana, built around schools of medicine, graduate studies, and allied health rather than a traditional undergraduate college. Its identity is that of a working academic hospital campus, a place where clinical care, medical education, and biomedical research happen side by side, and undergraduates who attend do so almost entirely through allied-health degree programs layered onto that medical-center infrastructure.

Academics

The allied-health programs place students inside an actual hospital and clinical environment from early in their training, rather than in classroom-only instruction. This clinical immersion is the defining academic experience for undergraduates here, closer to a professional training pipeline than a campus-based liberal-arts degree.

Worth knowing

Students should understand this as a health-sciences and medical-center campus first, with a small undergraduate allied-health presence, not a comprehensive university with a full range of majors.

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Admissions

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Deadlines (2026–27 cycle)

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