Private Tours of Tulane University
See Tulane through the eyes of a current student with Campus Maven. Experience a private, personalized tour built around your academic interests, your passions, and what makes New Orleans one of the most extraordinary places in the world to go to college.
Understanding what life at Tulane truly looks and feels like requires more than a walk along the standard admissions route. Campus Maven pairs you with a current Tulane student whose academic path and campus involvement reflect your own interests, giving you a private, one-on-one experience that brings both the university and New Orleans to life in a way no group tour ever could.
During your tour, your Maven might walk you through the research facilities that connect Tulane's public health mission to the real challenges of the city around it, take you inside the student organizations that give campus life its distinctive energy, or step off campus entirely onto Freret Street to give you a genuine feel for what it means to live and study in New Orleans day to day. Every stop is chosen with your specific interests in mind — so that by the time the tour ends, you have a concrete, honest sense of whether Tulane's unique blend of academic rigor, community engagement, and city life is the right fit for you.
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Sample Itinerary
Meet at Gibson Arch
Meet your Maven at Gibson Arch, Tulane's iconic entrance and the natural starting point for any campus experience. Your Maven will get to know you, understand your interests, and orient you to the campus before the tour begins.
10: 00 AM
10: 15 AM
Explore a Newcomb Quad & the Heart of Campus
Walk through the Newcomb Quad and the main academic corridors of Uptown Campus — the green spaces, the historic buildings, and the everyday gathering spots that give Tulane its distinct character and community feel. Here, get a genuine read on the campus culture :how students interact, what the energy feels like on a typical morning, and whether this is a place where you can picture yourself truly belonging. Your Maven will help you read all of it in a way that only someone who has lived here for a few years would know how to do.
Sit In on a Public Health Class
Head to the Tulane School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine (one of the top-ranked public health programs in the country) and sit in on an undergraduate seminar. This is one of the most eye-opening stops on the tour, giving you a genuine feel for the academic environment, the level of discussion in the classroom, and what learning at Tulane actually looks and feels like from a student's seat.
10: 40 AM
Attend a Club Meeting
Join your Maven at a meeting of the Tulane Community Health Center student volunteer organization, one of the most active and impactful student groups on campus. Sitting in gives you a real sense of how students translate their academic interests into meaningful work outside the classroom, and what campus involvement genuinely looks like beyond the surface level.
11: 05 AM
Visit a Tulane Dorm
Look at the residential communities on campus, including the Living Learning Communities that allow students to live alongside peers who share their academic and personal interests. Your Maven will share what the on-campus living experience is genuinely like from a student's perspective.
11: 25 AM
Eat like a Tulane Student
Stop at the Malkin Sacks Commons (Tulane's stunning two-story glass dining facility right at the heart of campus) to get a feel for something that matters more to daily student life than most families think to ask about. Your Maven will give you an honest take on the food, the social dynamic of shared mealtimes, and what the dining experience at Tulane is genuinely like week to week, not the version from the welcome weekend highlight reel.
11: 50 AM
Study like a Tulane Student
Every Tulane student has a favorite place to disappear and get work done — and most of them are not on any official campus map. Your Maven will take you to theirs. Whether it is a quiet corner of the Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, a shaded outdoor spot on the quad, or a tucked-away lounge in one of the academic buildings, this stop gives you a sense of the quieter, more personal rhythms of student life that define the day-to-day experience at Tulane.
12: 10 PM
12: 35 PM
Explore Freret Street
Step just off campus onto Freret Street, the vibrant corridor of restaurants, coffee shops, and local spots that Tulane students treat as their own backyard. Your Maven will take you to a favorite spot and open the floor for a completely candid Q&A. No question is off limits.
Final Thoughts
Your Maven will wrap up with a few final thoughts: what they like (and dislike) most about Tulane, what they would tell their younger self before arriving, and any last recommendations based on everything you talked about during the tour. You will leave with a genuine, well-rounded picture of Tulane that goes far beyond what any official visit could offer. Most families tell us this is the moment the decision starts to become clear.
1: 00 PM
Featured Tulane Mavens
Kathryn Dray
Kathryn Dray is a second year at Tulane University with a major in Sociology and minor in Strategy, Leadership, and Analytics (SLAM). She loves walks across Tulane, at Audubon Park. On campus, she is involved in the Tulane Wellness Society, Entrepreneurship Club, and a member of Pi Beta Phi sorority. Off campus, she enjoys discovering the different cafes and study spots in the lively city of New Orleans.
Our Tulane Tours
The Maven Discovery
2 Hour Visit
A focused, private tour built around your interests. Your Maven will take you through the campus spaces that matter most to you whether that's specific academic facilities, student activities, or residence life. The perfect discovery overview to a campus for families in the early stages of their college search.
$150
The Maven’s Dive
3 Hour Visit
With the Maven’s Dive, your Maven can cover more ground whether it be by sitting in on a club meeting, visiting multiple departments, or simply taking the tour at a pace that leaves room for real conversation and deviation. The Maven’s Dive is ideal for schools that are high on your list.
$200
The Maven Experience
4.5 Hour Visit With Lunch
The Maven Experience is our most immersive tour, designed for families who are seriously considering a school and want a deep picture. Spend a half day exploring campus with your Maven, then continue the conversation over lunch at a student favorite spot, the kind of place you'd only know about if you actually went there. By the time the tour is over, you'll feel like you walked in the Maven’s shoes.
