Loyola purchased neighboring Mundelein College in 1991. The university legally separated from the Jesuits in 1970, and today is under lay control and governed by a board of trustees. In 1969, Loyola established the School of Education and consolidated medical programs at the Loyola University Medical Center, a hospital and health care complex in Maywood, a neighboring suburb of Chicago. In 1962, Loyola opened a campus in Rome, near the site of the 1960 Summer Olympics. The current Water Tower Campus opened in 1949. Loyola Academy, a college prep high school, occupied Dumbach Hall on the Lake Shore Campus, until it moved to Wilmette in 1957. As the predecessor to the School of Social Work, it enrolled Loyola's first female students, though the school did not become fully coeducational until 1966. A downtown campus was founded in 1914, and with it, the School of Sociology. The Chicago College of Dental Surgery became part of the university in 1923, and closed 70 years later.
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To meet the growing needs of Chicago, Loyola established professional schools in law (1908), medicine (1909), business (1922), and nursing (1935). Ignatius College Prep, adjacent to the University of Illinois at Chicago. In 1909, the school was renamed Loyola University, and in 1912, it began to move to the Lake Shore Campus today the original building is part of St. At that time, Chicago was a much smaller, but rapidly growing city just shy of 300,000 people, and as a result, the original campus was much closer to the city center, along Roosevelt Road. On June 30, 1870, Jesuit priest and educator Arnold Damen established St. Loyola alumni have won Emmy, Grammy, Peabody, and Pulitzer awards, as well as Guggenheim and MacArthur fellowships. Īmong the more than 150,000 Loyola alumni are executives of major Chicago-based corporations such as McDonald's and Baxter International, as well as dozens of local and national political leaders, including the longtime former Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, Michael Madigan. The Ramblers are also two-time (2014, 2015) NCAA champions in men's volleyball. Loyola won the 1963 NCAA men's basketball championship and remains the only school from Illinois to do so. Loyola's athletic teams, nicknamed the Ramblers, compete in NCAA Division I as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. The flagship Lake Shore Campus is on the shores of Lake Michigan in the Rogers Park and Edgewater neighborhoods of Chicago, just over seven miles north of the Loop. Another guest program in Beijing was closed in 2018. Loyola has six campuses across the Chicago metropolitan area, as well as a campus in Rome and a guest program in Ho Chi Minh City. Ĭomprising thirteen colleges and schools, Loyola offers more than 80 undergraduate and 140 graduate/professional programs and enrolls approximately 17,000 students. It is classified among "R2: Doctoral Universities – High research activity". Loyola's professional schools include programs in medicine, nursing, and health sciences anchored by the Loyola University Medical Center. Its namesake is Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Founded in 1870 by the Society of Jesus, Loyola is one of the largest Catholic universities in the United States. Loyola University Chicago ( Loyola or LUC) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois.
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