This is a list of University of Louisiana at Lafayette presidents from the University of Louisiana at Lafayette (UL Lafayette), in Lafayette, Louisiana. The school has had six presidents spanning more than a century. Over the years the university held different names, including Southwestern Louisiana Industrial Institute (SLII) from 1898 to 1920; Southwestern Louisiana Institute of Liberal and Technical Learning (SLI) from 1921 to 1959; and the University of Southwestern Louisiana (USL) from 1960 to 1998.