Louisiana College

Founded in 1906, Louisiana College is a private, Baptist coeducational college of liberal arts and sciences with selected professional programs that are relevant, relational, and rigorous, and are built upon a Christian worldview. LC has a tradition of outstanding academics and is the only Baptist, four-year institution in Louisiana.

Louisiana College (LC) is a private Baptist college in Pineville, Louisiana. Approximately 1,300 students are enrolled. Although the college is affiliated with a group of Southern Baptist churches, which make up the membership of the Louisiana Baptist Convention, students need not be a member of that denomination to attend.

The school colors are orange and blue, and the athletic teams are known as the Wildcats and Lady Wildcats.

Louisiana College was founded on October 3, 1906, in Pineville, across the Red River from the larger city of Alexandria. The college began in tents with four professor and nineteen students. Since 2006, LC has reported an enrollment growth of 50 percent.[2]

Baptist clergyman and educator Edwin O. Ware, Sr., is considered to have been the principal founder of the institution. He was from 1906 to 1907 the LC financial agent, and its first president from 1908 to 1909. LC is the successor to two earlier Louisiana Baptist schools, Mount Lebanon College, sometimes called Mount Lebanon University, and Keatchie Female College. The first, a men's school founded in 1852 by the North Louisiana Baptist Convention, was located in the community of Mount Lebanon in Bienville Parish. The women's college, founded in 1857 by the Grand Cane Association of Baptist Churches, was located in the community of Keatchie in De Soto Parish south of Shreveport.