re: Since McNeese is up this week, somebody justify that school's existence for me.

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Since McNeese is up this week, somebody justify that school's existence for me.

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Louisiana has too many public colleges. But McNeese isn't really one of the ones I'd even consider ditching. Not while SUNO, Grambling, or SUS exists.

- Southern University New Orleans and Southern University Shreveport probably both need to close down or merge with the local community colleges. Release the administrators and move the instructors and students to either SU main campus or to the local community colleges. This needed to happen decades ago.

- Grambling's existence makes no sense with ULM and Louisiana Tech both being nearby. I would close Grambling, release all of their administrators, and move their resources to the main Southern University campus in Baton Rouge and ULM. Maybe try to sell the campus to the military or some other employer.

- LSUA needs to convert to more online instruction to reduce costs and boost enrollment. There are barely 3,000 students in the entire college now. CENLA just isn't growing unfortunately.

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we could easily do without several of these institutions

why does north louisiana have LSU-A, LSU-S, Southern-S, Grambling, Tech, NWSU, and ULM?

Louisiana State University System
Louisiana State University - Baton Rouge
Louisiana State University at Eunice† - Eunice
Louisiana State University of Alexandria - Alexandria
Louisiana State University Shreveport - Shreveport
LSU Health Sciences Center New Orleans - New Orleans
LSU Health Sciences Center Shreveport - Shreveport
Paul M. Hebert Law Center - Baton Rouge

Southern University System
Southern University - Baton Rouge
Southern University at New Orleans - New Orleans
Southern University at Shreveport† - Shreveport
Southern University Law Center - Baton Rouge

University of Louisiana System
Grambling State University - Grambling
Louisiana Tech University - Ruston
McNeese State University - Lake Charles
Nicholls State University - Thibodaux
Northwestern State University - Natchitoches
Southeastern Louisiana University - Hammond
University of Louisiana at Lafayette - Lafayette
University of Louisiana at Monroe - Monroe
University of New Orleans - New Orleans

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Now post their respective metro populations and their current endowments.

This was always the political third rail. Several years ago someone floated the idea of reducing the number of regional universities or at least making each of the regionals specialize in one curriculum to Eliminate the ridiculous redundancy around the state.

It would be easier to repeal the second amendment. These little fiefdoms are unfortunately entrenched in Louisiana

A nice chunk are from SE Texas who would otherwise go to Lamar.

Rice being the hardest college to get into and the most National Merit Scholars year in and year out

Great points and why a friend (RIP T.R. Gambrell) turned down business opportunities in major cities to stay in Lake Chuck. He did pretty well with his vending machine business back in the day.