Mission & Vision
Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit, Catholic university committed to the educational and spiritual traditions of the Society of Jesus and to the ideals of liberal education and the development of the whole person. Accordingly, the University will inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world.
Loyola seeks to prepare students at both the undergraduate and graduate levels for lives of meaningful professional service and leadership. At Loyola, this means the curriculum is rigorous and faculty expectations are high. Students are challenged to understand the ethical dimensions of personal and professional life and to examine their own values, attitudes, and beliefs.
In addition to academic coursework, the Jesuit mission is supported through a variety of programs and events sponsored by various University departments.
Our Vision
Together We RiseLoyola University Maryland's strategic plan, Together We Rise, will define the University as a preeminent university for student success. Loyola will continue to grow in transformational excellence while helping students lead with love and work for justice.
Vision Statement
With a steadfast commitment to student success, Loyola University Maryland is dedicated to transformational excellence. As a Jesuit, Catholic University, we aim to lead with love and work for justice and aspire to be the best place in the world from which to change the world.
Core Values
From the time of their founding nearly 500 years ago, the Jesuits have had a distinctive
way of looking at life. The Ignatian worldview emphasizes openness and enthusiasm
toward the whole of God’s richly diverse creation and for the human person as its
crowning glory; hopefulness and pragmatism in seeking graced solutions to life’s challenges,
tempered by realism and compassion about the reality of human weakness; sustained
critical attention to motivations and choices based on the conviction that individuals,
through the exercise of their freedom, exert a real influence on their world and one
another; and commitment to a life of growing integrity and increasing service to God
and to others.
As a Jesuit, Catholic university with a 165-year history, Loyola University Maryland
adopts and adapts these characteristic emphases of the Ignatian heritage, and reflects
them in its life and work by encouraging all of its constituents to cultivate and
to live by certain core values.
