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About Nicholls State University

Nicholls State University is a public university located in Thibodaux, which is the parish seat of Lafourche Parish, situated in the US state of Louisiana, with a population estimated at a number of more than 14 000 inhabitants, during the 2000 census. Thibodaux is nicknamed "Queen City of Lafourche" and it is also a principal city of the Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Nicholls State was founded in 1948, first starting as Francis T. Nicholls Junior College, and has been part of the University of Louisiana System, since 1956, when the institution left the Louisiana State University System. Among the most notable educational programs and degrees, offered by the university, there are: Bachelor degrees in Art, Master degrees in Business Administration and an Executive MBA program, Mass Communication, Biological Sciences - Marine and environmental sciences emphasis, including several others.

The athletic teams from Nicholls State University are known as the Nicholls State Colonels, who compete in NCAA Division I (Football Championship Subdivision or FCS for football), in the Southland Conference, in various men’s and women’s sports, including baseball, basketball, tennis, golf, soccer, volleyball and cheerleading, being known, among other sports, for their achievements in football, one of their most notable wins being when they defeated the McNeese State Cowboys with 39-26 at John L. Guidry Stadium.

The list of notable Nicholls State alumni contains the following names: Dwight Walker - Former Running Back for the Cleveland Browns, and Wide Receiver for the New Orleans Saints, Hunt Downer - former Speaker of the Louisiana House of Representatives; assistant adjutant general of the Louisiana National Guard, Hunter Smith – restaurateur, Lardarius Webb - current kickoff returner and cornerback with the Baltimore Ravens, Ken Wells – writer and journalist and Kareem Moore - safety for Washington Redskins.