Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge is a public institution that was founded in 1860. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 24,626, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 2,000 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Louisiana State University--Baton Rouge's ranking in the 2014 edition of Best Colleges is National Universities, 135.

Louisiana State University—Baton Rouge, better known as LSU,  is a public school near the Mississippi River, in the southeast part of the state.