- Five programs at five schools. 4 bachelor’s, 1 master’s.
- In-state bachelor’s rates start at $10,125. As reported to IPEDS.
- Out-of-state undergraduates pay $6,741 extra per year at Louisiana Tech University. It is the public university here with the widest residency gap.
- Supply chain managers’ BLS occupation: median $93,650. Nationally $107,230; logisticians earn $75,230.
- Annual supply chain openings: about 810. Fastest growth to 2034: logisticians, +17.2%.
- ACM discounts tuition in member states. 212 programs qualify.
By level, Louisiana has four bachelor’s and one master’s. Every Louisiana program sits in an AACSB-accredited business school.
Not ranked
Sustainable Supply Chain Management (BS)
Ruston, LA
- On campus
- AACSB-accredited business school
More about this program
Louisiana Tech's Sustainable Supply Chain Management major is a 120-credit BS housed in the AACSB-accredited College of Business, and it pairs logistics and operations with a sustainability focus. Sophomores take Introduction to Environmental Science and Conservation and Management of Natural Resources as their science courses alongside accounting, economics, business law, and statistics. The senior year carries the supply chain sequence: Strategic Sourcing, Logistics Technology, Innovation and Management, Systems and Operations Management, and Supply Chain Management, plus a Business Administration Capstone and an international business elective. Operations Management and Principles of Business Analytics come in the junior year, along with a one-hour Career Preparation Seminar. The program includes site visits to manufacturing and service facilities across the South and project-based assignments. An 18-hour minor in the same field is open to business and non-business majors.
Not ranked
Master of Business Administration, Supply Chain Management concentration
Thibodaux, LA
- MBA concentration
- AACSB-accredited business school
More about this program
Six of the 30 credit hours in this MBA go to a Supply Chain Management concentration, and the school lists two courses for it, MNGT 552 Supply Chain Management Fundamentals and MNGT 553 Advanced Supply Chain Management. The other 24 hours are core and major classes covering accounting, economics, finance, information technology, marketing, human capital and managing strategic resources, and the degree is ten required courses in all. You pick one concentration from four options that also include executive leadership, human resource management and data analytics. The program office is in White Hall in Thibodaux, Louisiana.
Each card is read from the school’s own program page. The rank is the program’s place in this site’s national ranking of its kind; the highlighted lines compare it with the other verified programs in Louisiana. A card marked “Not ranked” has no national rank to show: one is a bachelor’s program placed below the top 25 that the national bachelor’s list publishes, and one was found in this site’s crawl of AACSB-accredited schools’ own program pages, and AACSB’s supply chain list, which the national rankings are built from, doesn’t name it.
Also Accredited In Louisiana
These programs appear in the AACSB or ACBSP listing. This site hasn’t verified their tuition, credits or length yet, so their cards carry the accreditor’s record only.
Programs tagged “Found on the school’s site” sit in AACSB-accredited business schools and were found in this site’s crawl of those schools’ own program pages. AACSB’s supply chain list doesn’t name them, so they are ranked nowhere; each one links to the school’s page, and a concentration is labeled with the degree it belongs to.
Louisiana Tech University reports $10,125 a year in tuition and fees for Louisiana residents.
Bachelor’s Programs In Louisiana
Bachelor’s in supply chain management programs in Louisiana, by in-state tuition | Program | In-State Tuition And Fees | Out-Of-State | Graduation Rate |
| Louisiana Tech University LA · On campus | $10,125 | $16,866 | 57% |
Tuition and fees are per year for the whole school, from IPEDS 2023-24; graduation rates are six-year, whole school.
In-State And Out-Of-State Tuition In Louisiana
Louisiana Tech University reports charging nonresidents $6,741 more a year than Louisiana residents. For a Louisiana student, residency at Louisiana Tech University is worth about $26,964 over four years.
Louisiana belongs to one regional tuition exchange. ACM is open to Louisiana residents for undergraduate and graduate study. Besides Louisiana, 13 member states have 212 programs, 51 of them in Texas.
If the program you want isn’t offered in Louisiana, an exchange can keep a campus over the border near Louisiana’s in-state cost. Before applying, Louisiana students should ask each school whether ACM covers its degree.
- Academic Common Market, run by SREB: in-state tuition at an out-of-state school for a program that public institutions in your home state don’t offer.
Louisiana borders Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi. Together Louisiana’s neighbors have 66 accredited programs, 51 of them in Texas, more than Louisiana has itself.
Next door, the lowest stated graduate total a Louisiana student could find is $11,010. Texas, Arkansas and Mississippi share a tuition exchange with Louisiana.
Accredited supply chain programs in the states bordering Louisiana | Neighboring State | Programs | Lowest Graduate Total | Lowest Bachelor’s Rate A Year |
| Texas Shares ACM with Louisiana | 51 | $11,010, Texas A&M International University | $7,536 ($17,472 nonresident), University of Houston-Downtown |
| Arkansas Shares ACM with Louisiana | 11 | $19,572, University of Arkansas | $7,754 ($13,826 nonresident), Arkansas State University |
| Mississippi Shares ACM with Louisiana | 4 | | $9,815 ($26,580 nonresident), Mississippi State University |
Note: A blank cell means that state has no program with a verified figure.
Graduate totals are read from each school’s program page; bachelor’s rates are IPEDS 2023-24, per year, for the whole school.
None of the five Louisiana directory listings names an online format; a Louisiana resident studying online would enroll elsewhere.
Residency can still matter online for a Louisiana student: Louisiana Tech University charges Louisiana’s nonresidents $6,741 more a year on campus; a Louisiana student should check whether its online rate differs.
For a Louisiana student, these are the six lowest online master’s totals we list.
Note: A blank cell means the school’s program page doesn’t state that figure.
Online totals as each school states them. The online degree ranking and the online master’s ranking list each program’s online tuition and any campus residency.
In Louisiana, industrial production managers earn the highest median of these occupations, $133,210. Logisticians in Louisiana earn a median of $75,230, below the $82,320 national figure; Louisiana’s lowest-paid tenth earn under $50,550 and the top tenth over $129,230.
For transportation, storage and distribution managers in Louisiana, the occupation that includes supply chain managers, the median is $93,650, with the 10th percentile at $54,220 and the 90th at $154,240. On the procurement side, Louisiana’s purchasing managers earn a median of $109,630 and its buyers and purchasing agents $66,340, across 3,440 jobs.
Supply chain occupations in Louisiana: jobs and median pay | Occupation | Jobs | Median In Louisiana | U.S. Median |
| Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | 2,840 | $93,650 | $107,230 |
| Logisticians | 1,710 | $75,230 | $82,320 |
| Purchasing Managers | 470 | $109,630 | $148,080 |
| Buyers and Purchasing Agents | 3,440 | $66,340 | $77,710 |
| Operations Research Analysts | 550 | $63,210 | $88,940 |
| Industrial Production Managers | 2,680 | $133,210 | $126,060 |
| Cargo and Freight Agents | 840 | $48,940 | $52,260 |
| Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks | 1,970 | $60,120 | $59,650 |
| Compliance Officers | 3,970 | $70,290 | $80,730 |
BLS publishes no separate wage for supply chain managers. They are counted inside transportation, storage and distribution managers, and every figure here is for that whole occupation. BLS publishes no separate wage for customs brokers. They are counted inside compliance officers, an occupation that spans government, finance and healthcare, so figures for the whole occupation describe far more than customs work.
Pay And The Cost Of Living In Louisiana
At 88.2 for 2024, Louisiana’s BEA price level sits 11.8% under the U.S. average, so Louisiana’s $75,230 logistician median buys what $85,288 would nationally. Adjusted that way, Louisiana ranks 24th of 51 for logistician pay.
Supply Chain Pay By Metro Area In Louisiana
Lake Charles, LA pays Louisiana’s highest logistician median, $92,170, $16,940 above the Louisiana figure.
Median pay for logisticians and transportation, storage and distribution managers in Louisiana metro areas | Metro Area | Logistician Median | Managers Median |
| New Orleans-Metairie, LA 460 logistician jobs | $78,200 | $97,890 |
| Baton Rouge, LA 340 logistician jobs | $78,840 | $97,000 |
| Lafayette, LA 150 logistician jobs | $72,670 | $88,990 |
| Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA 140 logistician jobs | $70,330 | $99,460 |
| Shreveport-Bossier City, LA 130 logistician jobs | $82,440 | $90,540 |
| Lake Charles, LA 110 logistician jobs | $92,170 | $92,640 |
| Slidell-Mandeville-Covington, LA 80 logistician jobs | $64,110 | $93,070 |
| Alexandria, LA 50 logistician jobs | $67,200 | $87,880 |
Note: A blank cell means BLS publishes no estimate for that metro.
Louisiana Pay Against Its Neighbors
Arkansas pays logisticians the most here, $78,400; Louisiana is third of 4 at $75,230. Adjusted for prices, Arkansas leads at $90,180, and Louisiana places third.
Logistician and manager pay in Louisiana and the states it borders | State | Logistician Median | Managers Median | Logistician, Price-Adjusted |
| Louisiana (this page) 1,710 logistician jobs | $75,230 | $93,650 | $85,288 |
| Texas 21,030 logistician jobs | $75,480 | $100,700 | $77,769 |
| Arkansas 2,220 logistician jobs | $78,400 | $89,200 | $90,180 |
| Mississippi 1,560 logistician jobs | $75,160 | $85,770 | $86,438 |
Note: Price-adjusted pay divides the median by BEA’s state price level. A blank cell means no estimate.
Louisiana’s largest by headcount: buyers and purchasing agents (3,440), then transportation, storage and distribution managers (2,840) and industrial production managers (2,680). Louisiana holds 1.3% of U.S. jobs in the managers’ occupation, and Louisiana logisticians are 0.7% of the U.S. total.
The managers’ occupation has 1.467 jobs per 1,000 in Louisiana (location quotient 1.03), ranking Louisiana 12th of 50 and above the national share. In Louisiana, logisticians hold 0.886 jobs per 1,000 (0.55 quotient, 42nd).
Compliance officers and operations research analysts are left out of this count: both occupations reach well beyond supply chain work. “The managers’ occupation” is transportation, storage and distribution managers. A location quotient of 1.0 means the occupation’s share of jobs matches the national share.
County Business Patterns counts 72,035 transportation and warehousing jobs at 3,868 Louisiana employers in 2023, plus 71,513 jobs in Louisiana’s wholesale trade. By that count Louisiana ranks 30th of 51 for transportation and warehousing employment.
Within it, freight support services is Louisiana’s largest freight line, 16,897 jobs, followed by trucking at 16,465. Warehousing and storage employs 9,312 people at 246 Louisiana sites, 35th among the states. The best-paid of these lines in Louisiana is water transportation, averaging $96,099 a year per job.
Logistics and wholesale industries in Louisiana: jobs, employers and average pay, 2023 | Industry | Jobs | Employers | Average Pay | Share Of U.S. Jobs |
| Transportation and warehousing | 72,035 | 3,868 | $70,120 | 1.1% |
| Truck transportation | 16,465 | 1,729 | $61,773 | 1.0% |
| Warehousing and storage | 9,312 | 246 | $62,964 | 0.6% |
| Support activities for transportation | 16,897 | 880 | $74,930 | 2.0% |
| Couriers and messengers | 8,383 | 159 | $42,200 | 0.7% |
| Air transportation | 2,714 | 73 | $80,665 | 0.5% |
| Water transportation | 10,246 | 247 | $96,099 | 16.4% |
| Wholesale trade | 71,513 | 5,013 | $73,236 | 1.1% |
Note: A blank cell means the Census Bureau withholds that figure to protect individual employers.
County Business Patterns 2023 (Census Bureau): employer establishments, mid-March employment and annual payroll; average pay is payroll divided by jobs. Rail is outside its scope. Shares compare with the 50 states and DC.
In Louisiana, logisticians grow fastest: +17.2%, from 1,890 jobs in 2024 to 2,210 in 2034, per Louisiana’s labor market office (U.S.: +16.7%). The slowest in Louisiana is production, planning, and expediting clerks, at -0.3%.
Across its six core supply chain occupations, Louisiana expects about 810 openings a year. Four of Louisiana’s six are projected to outpace the U.S.
Projected employment for supply chain occupations in Louisiana, 2024 to 2034 | Occupation | 2024 Jobs | 2034 | Change | Openings A Year | U.S. Change |
| Transportation, Storage, and Distribution Managers | 1,980 | 2,090 | +5.3% | 170 | +6% |
| Logisticians | 1,890 | 2,210 | +17.2% | 210 | +16.7% |
| Purchasing Managers | 460 | 480 | +4.8% | 40 | +3.1% |
| Operations Research Analysts | 720 | 840 | +17.7% | 60 | +21.5% |
| Industrial Production Managers | 2,420 | 2,460 | +1.8% | 170 | +1.9% |
| Cargo and Freight Agents | 780 | 870 | +10.7% | 70 | +8.5% |
| Production, Planning, and Expediting Clerks | 1,720 | 1,710 | -0.3% | 150 | -1.8% |
| Compliance Officers | 4,340 | 4,370 | +0.7% | 330 | +2.9% |
Long-term projections from each state’s labor market information office, published through Projections Central (laworks.net). Openings count new jobs plus workers who retire or change careers. The core occupations leave out compliance officers and operations research analysts.
Transportation, Storage, And Distribution Managers In Louisiana
Louisiana has 2,840 transportation, storage and distribution managers. Their median, $93,650, puts Louisiana 49th of 52. The middle half of Louisiana’s pay for this occupation runs from $71,420 to $120,010, and the outer tenths reach $54,220 and $154,240. At 1.467 jobs per 1,000 in Louisiana, its location quotient is 1.03 (12th). Louisiana’s labor office projects +5.3% to 2034, about 170 openings a year.
Logisticians In Louisiana
Louisiana has 1,710 logisticians. Their median, $75,230, puts Louisiana 42nd of 52. The middle half of Louisiana’s pay for this occupation runs from $64,100 to $100,230, and the outer tenths reach $50,550 and $129,230. At 0.886 jobs per 1,000 in Louisiana, its location quotient is 0.55 (42nd). Louisiana’s labor office projects +17.2% to 2034, about 210 openings a year.
Purchasing Managers In Louisiana
Louisiana has 470 purchasing managers. Their median, $109,630, puts Louisiana 50th of 51. The middle half of Louisiana’s pay for this occupation runs from $89,660 to $145,270, and the outer tenths reach $77,870 and $179,000. At 0.245 jobs per 1,000 in Louisiana, its location quotient is 0.45 (49th). Louisiana’s labor office projects +4.8% to 2034, about 40 openings a year.
Buyers And Purchasing Agents In Louisiana
Louisiana has 3,440 buyers and purchasing agents. Their median, $66,340, puts Louisiana 46th of 52. The middle half of Louisiana’s pay for this occupation runs from $55,550 to $88,610, and the outer tenths reach $45,080 and $112,380. At 1.778 jobs per 1,000 in Louisiana, its location quotient is 0.56 (49th).
Operations Research Analysts In Louisiana
Louisiana has 550 operations research analysts. Their median, $63,210, puts Louisiana 44th of 48. The middle half of Louisiana’s pay for this occupation runs from $56,150 to $76,680, and the outer tenths reach $49,940 and $111,160. At 0.285 jobs per 1,000 in Louisiana, its location quotient is 0.41 (39th). Louisiana’s labor office projects +17.7% to 2034, about 60 openings a year.
Industrial Production Managers In Louisiana
Louisiana has 2,680 industrial production managers. Their median, $133,210, puts Louisiana ninth of 51. The middle half of Louisiana’s pay for this occupation runs from $103,880 to $168,560, and the outer tenths reach $79,350 and $213,350. At 1.385 jobs per 1,000 in Louisiana, its location quotient is 0.87 (30th). Louisiana’s labor office projects +1.8% to 2034, about 170 openings a year.
Cargo And Freight Agents In Louisiana
Louisiana has 840 cargo and freight agents. Their median, $48,940, puts Louisiana 35th of 49. The middle half of Louisiana’s pay for this occupation runs from $45,200 to $61,870, and the outer tenths reach $27,230 and $73,360. At 0.436 jobs per 1,000 in Louisiana, its location quotient is 0.69 (27th). Louisiana’s labor office projects +10.7% to 2034, about 70 openings a year.
Production, Planning, And Expediting Clerks In Louisiana
Louisiana has 1,970 production, planning, and expediting clerks. Their median, $60,120, puts Louisiana 23rd of 52. The middle half of Louisiana’s pay for this occupation runs from $47,010 to $76,050, and the outer tenths reach $38,680 and $98,180. At 1.016 jobs per 1,000 in Louisiana, its location quotient is 0.41 (47th). Louisiana’s labor office projects -0.3% to 2034, about 150 openings a year.
Compliance Officers In Louisiana
Louisiana has 3,970 compliance officers. Their median, $70,290, puts Louisiana 39th of 52. The middle half of Louisiana’s pay for this occupation runs from $49,080 to $95,840, and the outer tenths reach $39,850 and $119,990. At 2.053 jobs per 1,000 in Louisiana, its location quotient is 0.77 (41st). Louisiana’s labor office projects +0.7% to 2034, about 330 openings a year.
Pay and percentiles from BLS OEWS (May 2025); state ranks count the states, DC and Puerto Rico with an estimate. Each occupation’s salary page carries its national, state and metro detail.
Counting shipments that start, end or stay in Louisiana, the Freight Analysis Framework estimates 1.40 billion tons of freight worth $816.6 billion moved in 2024. That ranks Louisiana 14th of 51 by value and second by weight, and 42.7% of its tonnage never leaves the state.
By value, crude petroleum and fuel oils lead Louisiana’s freight. By weight, Louisiana moves mostly natural gas and fossil products and crude petroleum. In Louisiana, pipelines carry 41.6% of the tons, water 23.5% and trucks 21.8%.
Louisiana’s largest domestic trading partner is Texas ($176.9 billion, both directions), then Mississippi and Illinois. Louisiana exported $90.7 billion of freight, mostly to Europe, and imported $30.9 billion, mostly from Rest of Americas. The framework forecasts Louisiana’s tonnage to grow 40.7% by 2050 and its real value 71.4%.
The five largest commodities by value in Louisiana freight, 2024 | Commodity | Value, 2024 | Share Of Value |
| Crude petroleum By value, first in Louisiana | $135.7 billion | 16.6% |
| Fuel oils By value, second in Louisiana | $93.1 billion | 11.4% |
| Natural gas and fossil products By value, third in Louisiana | $91.0 billion | 11.1% |
| Gasoline By value, fourth in Louisiana | $74.1 billion | 9.1% |
| Basic chemicals By value, fifth in Louisiana | $49.2 billion | 6% |
Freight Analysis Framework 5.7.1 (BTS and FHWA): 2024 estimates in current dollars; the 2050 value forecast is in constant 2017 dollars. Trading-partner values combine freight in both directions.
Louisiana’s programs fall across five Census areas, led by Baton Rouge, LA with one school.
- Baton Rouge, LA (metro area): Southern University and A&M College.
- Hammond, LA (metro area): Southeastern Louisiana University.
- Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA (metro area): Nicholls State University.
- New Orleans-Metairie, LA (metro area): Louisiana State University New Orleans.
- Ruston, LA (micropolitan area): Louisiana Tech University.
Areas are Census Bureau CBSAs (July 2023), assigned by each school’s county.
- Start with the level: Louisiana’s five listings split into four bachelor’s and one master’s.
- Stay in state if you can. At Louisiana Tech University, a Louisiana resident pays $10,125 a year against $16,866 for everyone else.
- Ask about ACM before ruling out a school outside Louisiana; Louisiana’s residents can use it for undergraduate and graduate study.
- Match the program to where you’ll work: in Louisiana, Lake Charles, LA pays logisticians most, $92,170 against $75,230 statewide.
- Look at demand too: in Louisiana, logisticians grow fastest, +17.2% by 2034.
How Many Supply Chain Management Programs Are In Louisiana?
This directory lists five accredited supply chain programs in Louisiana, at five schools: four bachelor’s and one master’s.
How Much Does A Supply Chain Management Degree Cost In Louisiana?
Louisiana Tech University reports in-state tuition and fees of $10,125 a year to IPEDS.
What Do Supply Chain Managers Make In Louisiana?
In Louisiana, the occupation counting supply chain managers pays a median of $93,650 across 2,840 jobs, against $107,230 nationally.
How Much Do Logisticians Make In Louisiana?
The logistician median in Louisiana is $75,230, across 1,710 jobs. At Louisiana’s price level of 88.2 (U.S. = 100), it buys what $85,288 would nationally.
Which Louisiana Metro Area Pays Supply Chain Workers The Most?
Lake Charles, LA has Louisiana’s highest logistician median, $92,170. Houma-Bayou Cane-Thibodaux, LA pays Louisiana’s managers’ occupation the most, $99,460.
How Does Louisiana Supply Chain Pay Compare With Neighboring States?
Of the 4 states compared with Louisiana, Arkansas pays logisticians the most, $78,400; Louisiana ranks third at $75,230. After adjusting for prices, Louisiana ranks third.
How Many Logistics Jobs Are In Louisiana?
Census County Business Patterns counts 72,035 transportation and warehousing jobs in Louisiana for 2023, 9,312 of them in warehousing and storage. BLS counts 1,710 Louisiana logisticians, the planners who run those flows.
Which Supply Chain Job Pays The Most In Louisiana?
Industrial production managers earn Louisiana’s highest supply chain median, $133,210, then purchasing managers at $109,630.
Is Supply Chain Management In Demand In Louisiana?
Louisiana’s labor market office expects logisticians in Louisiana to grow 17.2% by 2034, against 16.7% nationally, and Louisiana expects about 810 openings a year across Louisiana’s six core supply chain occupations.
Can Louisiana Residents Get A Tuition Discount At Out-Of-State Schools?
Yes. Louisiana is in ACM. ACM reaches 212 accredited programs outside Louisiana and covers undergraduate and graduate study for Louisiana residents. Before applying, Louisiana students should ask whether ACM covers the program.
National, state and metro pay for buyers and purchasing agents.
51 accredited programs next door.
11 accredited programs next door.
Four accredited programs next door.
Bachelor’s degrees you can finish online from Louisiana.
Every state, with its accredited programs and a link to its page.
What each job involves and the degree path into it.
