The Southern University Law Center is noted for offering students a rich and diverse educational experience. The nurturing environment at the Law Center engenders individuals with heart and compassion.

Diversity at SULC

The Law Center student body is composed of 63 percent African American, 35 percent Caucasian and 2 percent others. Its student gender make-up is 52 percent male and 48 percent female.

The Law Center is ranked 20th in the nation according the National Jurist Magazine in over-all diversity in categories that include students and faculty.

Public Service at SULC

Fostering a commitment to public service is demonstrated throughout the Law Center's many academic programs and services, student affairs, faculty mentoring, and alumni leadership. Specific examples are featured here:

Clinical Education Program - operating for more than 20 years, provides access to legal services for many members of the community denied access because of cost.

Career Planning and Development - Job fair participation, activities and programming have focused on public interest law, and on-campus interviews from public entities and other recruitment activities are featured annually.

Continuing Legal Education -

Special Projects - Programs established through grants secured by this office provide services to the public, such as educational assistance to the more than 1,000 family farmers and ranchers in the state initiated through a partnership agreement between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), with the Southern University Law Center, and the Southern University Agricultural Research and Extension Center. Find out about many more.