Lanthanum-substituted SrBi 4 Ti 4 O 15 (SBTi) ceramic, that is SrBi 4-x La x Ti 4 O 15 (SBLTi), samples were calcined by solid-state reaction and densified using the microwave sintering and conventional sintering techniques. Their structural, morphological and mechanical properties were investigated. The microwave sintered samples showed high densities like 95% of the theoretical density with short duration exposures. Compared with SBTi ceramics and other lanthanide-substituted compositions, the incorporation of La 3+ results in clear improvement in properties for SBLT (x ~ 0.75) with respect to the values of hardness and Young's modulus of the microwave sintered samples (8.8-12.5 and 160-180 GPa) are higher than that for conventional sintered (8-10 and 135-155 GPa) samples.