Garden and Taft Street complexes, the university could house close to 5,000 students on campus, achieving a goal set in the school's master plan as of 2020.
=== Greek life ===
The Greek community at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette is composed of 23 organizations. In 2022, 6% of undergraduate men and 13% of undergraduate women were active in the UL's Greek system.
== Notable firsts ==
1954 – Within months of the Brown v. Board of Education decision by the U.S. Supreme Court, SLI admitted 70 African-American students, becoming the first all-white public college in the Deep South to desegregate
1961 – Established the first university chapter of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) for students. It is named the ACM Alpha Student Chapter
1962 – Offered the first Master of Science degree in computer science in the U.S.
1994 – Created first francophone studies Ph.D. program in the Western hemisphere, and only the third in the world
2007 – The Cajun Advanced Picosatellite Experiment (CAPE) successfully …
