What's New
Best Value
U.S. News & World Report's 2008 edition of America's Best Colleges again ranks Loyola University Chicago among the top national universities, and also names Loyola a "best value." According to USN&WR: Best value "relates a school's academic quality, as indicated by its U.S. News ranking, to the net cost of attendance for a student who receives the average level of need-based financial aid. Only schools ranked in, or near, the top half of their categories are included, because we work on the premise that the most significant values are among colleges that are above average academically."
Loyola continues to enhance living and learning opportunities for students with new academic programs and the latest campus facilities.
Academic Highlights
- Discover the new School of Communication, opening in Fall 2008, which will offer undergraduate programs in advertising and public relations, communication, and journalism. Additionally, the school will join with the College of Arts and Sciences to support an interdisciplinary major in international film and media studies. Located at Loyola’s Water Tower Campus, just steps from Chicago’s Magnificent Mile, the School of Communication offers students unparalleled access to the city’s abundant opportunities in the fields of journalism, communication, media/public relations and advertising.
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Enroll in the Polish studies minor, an interdisciplinary program focusing on Polish language and literature, with additional course offerings in history, political science and economics.
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Check out the management major, offered by the School of Business Administration, which focuses on different aspects of employee selection, organization and evaluation in a variety of work settings.
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Consider the new dual-degree program in health systems management, which allows students to earn both a B.S. and an M.B.A. degree in just five years.
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Find out about changes to our human resource management and women’s studies and gender studies programs.
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Review other new programs in anthropology, applied statistics, Black world studies, computer crime and forensics, dance, health systems management, information technology, international business, Islamic world studies, Latin American studies and mathematics education.
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Learn about an expanded secondary education dual-degree program, which gives students greater expertise and more marketability in just four years. In addition to completing the necessary certification for teaching in public schools, candidates also earn bachelor degrees in education and in one of 14 teaching areas.
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Review Loyola’s 72 undergraduate majors. Students can combine majors or add minors to diversify their skills.
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Enroll in Loyola Seminar courses, which introduce Loyola students to active and collaborative learning in a supportive environment. These one-semester, one credit-hour courses meet weekly for 50 minutes; additional activities outside scheduled class time focus on community development and the integration of curricular and co-curricular learning.
Living and Learning Facilities
- Take advantage of Loyola's enriched fine arts programs, including a new facility and merged academic departments for greater synergy. The renovated building, located at 1131 W. Sheridan Road, just west of the El tracks, opened for Spring Semester 2007 and features classrooms and studios for sculpture, ceramics, jewelry and dance, as well as presentation studios, display areas and faculty offices. The new Department of Fine and Performing Arts now supports programs in theatre, music, fine arts and dance.
- Study in the new Information Commons, a four-story lakeside research facility that opened in early 2008. Information Commons provides: large individual and group study space for students; state-of-the-art technology with more than 250 computers; wireless Internet connections and a lakefront café.
- Live in the new graduate and upper-class Baumhart Hall and Terry Student Center, which opened in Fall 2006 at the Water Tower Campus. This 25-story upper-class residence hall features a state-of-the-art fitness center, study lounge, food court, outdoor terrace, wireless access, café and more.
- Find out about Loyola's future plans to expand the Lake Shore Campus. New additions will include state-of-the-art teaching and performance spaces, superior athletic facilities and more green space for student recreation and outdoor activities. Watch a video to learn more about the future Lake Shore Campus.
