world – and No. 7 in the United States – CEOWORLD magazine "World's Best Universities for Oil, Gas, and Petroleum Engineering in 2017" list
In 2018, "Best 382 Colleges", by The Princeton Review
Named to the "2014 President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll."
No. 10 among research universities for percentage of research and development expenditures funded by business, National Science Foundation September 2013 Report.
== Campus publishing ==
In the 1960s, a group of liberal arts professors at the University of Southwestern Louisiana began publishing their works under the imprint USL History Series. Then, in 1973, the Center for Louisiana Studies was established, and the organization took on the publication of these works, in addition to "publications drawn from research in the Center's Colonial Records Project, proceedings from historical associations and conferences, and works translated by Center staff".
Over the next few decades, the center's publications grew to include scholarship beyond the …