The Original Seal of LTC, Young Memorial Campus

The Louisiana Vocational Technical Education System originally began as "trade schools" in the thirties and has evolved to vocational schools, vocational technical schools, vocational technical institutes, and presently, technical colleges. A redesigned curriculum that blends technical education and applied academics ultimately leads to a certificate, diploma, and/or the Associate of Applied Technology Degree, the credential of preference by many businesses, industries, and labor interests. The Technical College System is comprised of one technical college with forty-two (42) campuses that offers sixty-six (66) diploma programs and twenty-nine (29) Associate Degree of Applied Technology full-time training programs to approximately fifty thousand (50,000) students. The name change to Technical College is reflective of the blending of technical and applied academic education. The system is presently providing for standardized curriculums for careers ranging from Automotive Technology to Biomedical Technology that afford students the ability of full transfer of credits from one campus to another.

Louisiana Technical College, Young Memorial Campus, began in Morgan City as an extension of Gulf Area Vocational School in Abbeville. During the period from 1959 through 1965 when the existing physical plant was dedicated, classes were offered in such facilities as an old building that was once a bakery shop and a corrugated metal building that was erected on the waterfront in Morgan City. The East St. Mary Chamber of Commerce adopted as one of its main projects the goal of building a spacious, modern facility to house the new school. With the support of the members of the Chamber of Commerce and many other community leaders, the Louisiana Legislature in 1960 passed Legislative Act 112, which authorized the establishment of a vocational school in Morgan City and which provided implementation for the school.

The new school was officially named Young Memorial Vocational-Technical School as a tribute to the memory of the late Young brothers, who were once prominent residents of Morgan City and whose homestead once occupied the present school site. The school is located on approximately 3.5 acres of land in an industrial park. This land was made available for building the new school by the administrators of the Morgan City Fund.

The building that houses Young Memorial Campus was dedicated in May, 1965, and the new wing was added in 1976. In 1995, the Louisiana State Legislature officially changed the school's name to Louisiana Technical College, Young Memorial Campus.

An instructional service center, Sager-Brown Center for Enabling Ministries, was located in Baldwin, Louisiana, where a Nursing Assistant Program was taught as a day program from March 1985 until October 1997.

During the Legislative session of 1997, funds were appropriated to establish a satellite campus in Franklin. This campus, which is located on the premises of Franklin Senior High School, is approximately twenty miles from the main campus. Program offerings that began in August, 1997, include diploma programs in Basic Electronics, Office Systems Technology, Welding, Carpentry, and Basic Electrician Training. The Nursing Assistant program previously taught at the Sager-Brown Center for Enabling Ministries in Baldwin, Louisiana, was relocated to the Young Memorial Campus in Franklin.

Young Memorial’s main campus is located at 900 Youngs Road in Morgan City. This campus is located in St. Mary Parish, but it serves citizens of Assumption, Lafourche, Terrebonne, and St. Martin parishes. An additional campus was established at 1401 Cynthia, Suite A, Franklin, Louisiana, August, 1997.