Louisiana Sate University 

Louisiana State University is ranked 135th in the national universities category and 64th among public universities by the 2017 U.S. News & World Report ranking of U.S. colleges. LSU is also ranked as the 218th best overall university in the nation by Forbes magazine and is featured in the 2011 edition of Princeton Review's Best 371 Colleges guide. Additionally, U.S. News & World Report ranked LSU as the 16th most popular university in the nation. LSU was listed for academic censure by the national Association of University Professors for its alleged mistreatment of faculty on June 16, 2012. It was also featured as one of the Foundation for Individual Rights in Education's 2016 "10 Worst Colleges for Free Speech" due to its firing of a professor.