Xavier University of Louisiana

Xavier University of Louisiana

Xavier University of Louisiana is a private historically black Roman Catholic university in New Orleans, Louisiana. It is the only Catholic HBCU and the second Catholic university founded by a saint, after St Mary-of-the-Woods College.

Located in New Orleans, Xavier University of Louisiana was established in 1925 when Saint Katharine Drexel and the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament founded the coeducational secondary school from which it evolved. Drexel, supported by the interest of a substantial inheritance from her father, banker-financier Francis Drexel, founded and staffed many institutions throughout the United States in an effort to help educate Native Americans and African Americans.

Current President: Dr. C. Reynold Verret

Official website: www.xula.edu