About Delgado Community College

Founded in 1921, Delgado is Greater New Orleans’ largest higher education institution and Louisiana’s oldest and largest community college. Fully accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools (SACS), Delgado provides students with the most comprehensive array of education and training services available in the Greater New Orleans region.

Delgado has articulation agreements with most of the state’s four-year colleges and universities that allow students wishing to pursue higher degrees to easily transfer credits into baccalaureate programs.

Delgado’s 35 associate degree programs, 73 certificate, technical competency area and technical diploma programs, and more than 100 non-credit courses meet the needs of every type of student, regardless of entry point or individual goal.

Some of the college’s largest programs include nursing, general studies and general science, business and management, accounting, radiologic technology, English as a second language, criminal justice, computer information technology, culinary arts, teaching grades 1-5, HVAC, automotive, welding, and electrician.

Delgado locations include the City Park Campus, West Bank Campus, Charity School of Nursing, Slidell Site, Covington Site, Jefferson Technical Site, West Jefferson Technical Site and the Maritime, Fire, Radar and Industrial Training Facility. Delgado is also a workforce development partner in the Jefferson Business and Career Solutions Center in Gretna