The College of Basic Sciences is
one of the premier research and teaching colleges at
LSU. An award-winning faculty and dedicated staff members
serve the College with the philosophy that science education
is a cumulative experience involving both classroom
instruction and laboratory research. The Dean's Office
is located in Choppin Hall and is open from 8:00 a.m.
to 4:30 p.m each weekday. We hope you find this information
helpful and welcome any questions or suggestions you
may have. You can email the Dean's Office by clicking
here.
The College of Basic Sciences is one
of the major academic colleges at LSU, and teaches more
than 60,000 student credit hours every semester (second
only to Arts and Sciences in SCH). The College includes
the departments of Biological Sciences, Chemistry, Computer
Science, Geology & Geophysics, and Physics &
Astronomy. The College has approximately 170 full-time
tenure-track faculty members, and 30 full-time instructors.1,800
undergraduate students are seeking a degree in majors,
as over 500 graduate students.
Basic Sciences is the leading unit at LSU with regards
to total grants and contracts; total extramural funding
in 2004-05 was $22.4M.
Undergraduate
Programs
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The College of Basic Sciences has a very stong student
body with roughly one-third of all of its full-time
students carrying a GPA of 3.5 or higher. Many of these
students are health related pre-professionals; most
health related pre-professional students at LSU choose
majors within the College of Basic Sciences. LSU graduates
typically account for approximately one half of the
entering classes at the LSU Medical Centers at New Orleans
and Shreveport, and the LSU Dental School in New Orleans.
Graduate Programs
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All of the departments within the College offer doctoral
programs, and two of our departments, Biological Sciences
and Chemistry, have graduate enrollments in excess of
100 students. The department of Chemistry has one of
the largest African American Ph.D. student enrollments
in the nation.
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