Participating in a Learning Community provides students who share similar interests the opportunity to live and learn together.  Living in a Learning Community allows you to explore an area of interest by taking take a couple classes together, makes it easier to build friendships, increases access to faculty, and enhances your learning through engaging programs and activities. Students who live in Learning Communities feel at home at Loyola more quickly, are more confident in their academic abilities, and earn higher GPAs. 

Learning Community students share a particular area of interest, live together in residential community, and enjoy taking a couple classes together.  Students participate in a Learning Community to:

• Meet friends with similar interests.
• Feel more connected to campus.
• Enhance their academic and social experiences
• Expand their experiences with the theme of their community
• Enjoy a smaller close knit community within the larger university.
• Connect with professors in and outside of class.
• Take advantage of LC events and activities both on and off campus

Hear what people are saying about our Learning Communities:

“The best choice I made at Loyola was to join a Learning Community.  My Learning Community has been a fantastic way to make friends with similar interests.  I have also gotten to know many of my LC faculty who have opened doors to new opportunities for me here at Loyola.”

- Kimberly, Sophomore Photography and Sociology Student from White Planes, New York

“When I decided to come to Loyola, I knew I wanted to be part of the best possible residence hall community. That's why I joined a Learning Community, which is where I met some of my best friends. I really enjoy being able to take classes and study with the friends that I live with. It makes group projects and late-night study sessions so much easier (and more fun)!”

- Mike, Sophomore, Nursing Student from Avon, Indiana

 “Participating in a Learning Community has really shaped my experience at Loyola.  I made friends who shared the same interests as me before classes even started.  My LC also gave me immediate connections with faculty and upperclass students who helped me get involved - for me that was in the theatre, but for you it could be in a service organization, student government, an intramural sport, or even an on-campus job.”

- RJ, Sophomore Theater Student from Phoenix, Arizona