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“My experience at UL Lafayette has helped me apply my Spanish skills within a global company. The creative perspective I gained from these classes is something I apply to projects I manage today at Apple.”

“The elementary education program allowed me to walk into real classrooms as early as my freshman year. From the get-go, I was able to observe great teachers and get ideas from their classrooms that still help me today.”

“I like the nursing program because it’s very hands-on from such an early start. You start going to clinicals your second semester sophomore year. You immediately get to start going into the hospital and find out if you’re actually going to like being a nurse.”

“UL Lafayette prides itself on being open to other cultures and communities. I had professors from France, Italy, India, and South Korea. These were important experiences to my development as a young adult and ultimately as a professional.”

“Art is a place for imagination, and I love to live in my imagination. There are a lot of things to love about being an art education major.”

“The medieval and early modern studies minor is cross-disciplinary in nature, covering classes in philosophy, humanities, English, history, theatre, arts, music, and others, which makes this minor exactly what I needed.”

“The best parts about the architecture program were the collaborative studios and the studio culture. My classmates became like family while in school.”

“There were several people I met in class who gave a guest lecture that I ended up working with on a professional level once I entered my career. Having their business card already in my inventory made it easier to bridge those connections later down the road.”

“The idea that I would get to study so intensely the subjects and questions that flooded my mind daily — how to govern a society, what kinds of governments certain societies favor, how specific policies affect these societies, and the philosophies behind those policies — I couldn’t wait to enroll and begin my journey with higher education in this department.”

"Lafayette is centered around the school, geographically, but there's just so much to do, there's so many opportunities and the campus is beautiful. The whole atmosphere of being at UL Lafayette is something that you feel. You can feel it, you can understand that you belong here.”