A Jesuit, Catholic university founded in Baltimore in 1852, offering 55+ undergraduate majors and 25+ graduate programmes across three schools, including teacher education.
Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic university founded in Baltimore in 1852 by the Society of Jesus. It was the first institution of higher learning in the United States to bear the name of its founder, St. Ignatius Loyola, and it works within the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus, emphasising the development of the whole person. Its mission is to prepare students for lives of leadership and service in a diverse and changing world, guided by ideals of academic excellence, care for the individual, service, justice, diversity and integrity.
The University comprises three schools: Loyola College of Arts and Sciences, the Sellinger School of Business and Management, and the School of Education. Together they offer more than 55 undergraduate majors and more than 25 graduate programmes, including education-related undergraduate majors and graduate programmes in teacher education. Teaching takes place on an 81-acre wooded campus in North Baltimore, with a faculty-to-student ratio of 13:1.
Loyola also fields 18 NCAA Division I athletic teams competing in the Patriot League. Its academic work spans higher education, liberal arts, business and management, teacher education and graduate study, all informed by Jesuit and Ignatian pedagogy.
