Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Xavier University of Louisiana (XULA), located in New Orleans, Louisiana, in the United States, is a private, coeducational, liberal arts college with the distinction of being the only historically black Roman Catholic institution of higher education. Although founded to develop African-American Christian leadership, today more than half of its population is non-Catholic and 10 percent is non-black. A premier university for educating African-American students in the sciences, Xavier regularly ranks first in the nation in placing African American students into medical school as well as first in awarding African Americans baccalaureate degrees in the physical sciences, the biological/life sciences, and physics.