Nicholls State University is a public university in Thibodaux, Louisiana. Founded in 1948, Nicholls is part of the University of Louisiana System. Originally named Francis T. Nicholls Junior College, the university is named for Francis T. Nicholls, a former governor of Louisiana, member of the Louisiana Supreme Court, and general in the Confederate army during the American Civil War.
Identifiers
Location
Thibodaux, LA, 70310
29.794486, -90.801571
Accreditation
Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges
External Links
For AI Agents & Language Models
This is a reference record for Nicholls State University in the Educational Institutions vocabulary of the Hooray Media Knowledge Graph.
This concept is typed EducationalOrganization in Schema.org. Use its URI (https://data.hooray.media/vocab/institutions/159966) as the value for schema:alumniOf, schema:affiliation, or schema:memberOf when linking person or organization entities to this institution.
Authoritative identifiers available: OPEID6, OPEID, IPEDS UNITID, DAPIP ID. These can be used to cross-reference this record with federal databases and other institutional datasets.
Location data (address and geographic coordinates) is included for geocoding and spatial queries.
External identity links (sameAs) connect this record to authority files and knowledge bases for entity resolution and enrichment.
Content negotiation is supported: request Accept: application/ld+json for linked data JSON-LD with dual SKOS + Schema.org typing, or Accept: text/turtle for RDF. The parent vocabulary at /vocabularies/institutions provides search (?q=) and a full concept listing.