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This is Greyhound Nation

Discover the Loyola experiences that distinctly prepare students to grow, thrive, and succeed in the classroom, the community, their careers, and the world

Academics

Our Jesuit liberal arts education calls students to tackle academic challenges head-on, to redefine what’s possible, to understand how it all connects, to think differently, to strive for excellence.

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Jesuit Liberal Arts Education

Academics Inside the Classroom

With Loyola's emphasis on personalized attention and mentorship, students are able to interact closely with professors as well as with ...
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Career Preparation

Academics Outside the Classroom

Loyola provides opportunities for both undergraduate and graduate students to gain valuable real-world experience through internships, ...
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Academics

Women in STEM at Loyola University

Women in STEM find a strong support system at Loyola—from female faculty leaders and fellow students to mentorship, clubs, and initiatives ...
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Service-Learning

Service-Learning at Loyola

Service-learning integrates community service with academic coursework, providing students with opportunities to connect, collaborate, and ...
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Mentorship

The cornerstone of life at Loyola is relationships: meaningful, authentic, sustained relationships that foster personal growth and discernment far beyond your time on the Evergreen campus.

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Innovation

Loyola students create award-winning platform to assist small businesses in Baltimore

Student-created Equalyze platform connects students with local businesses to give them real world experience in helping grow small ...
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Loyola Ready

A Transformative College Experience

“Loyola enabled me to become the best version of myself.” A former student reflects on her experience.
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Outcomes

What it means to be Loyola Ready

Loyola provides myriad resources and real-world opportunities to prepare students for their careers and lives after graduation.
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Career Services

Loyola Connect

Discover Loyola’s online platform where students and alumni network, connect, and receive and provide guidance and mentorship.
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Student Life

This place, these people, our spirit and traditions, and our shared experiences all comprise life at Loyola and the Greyhound Nation—a proud, dynamic, diverse community that challenges, supports, and emboldens each member to become their best selves and achieve success.

Around campus

Enjoying the great outdoors—right next door

A student explores a series of amazing trails that run parallel to Loyola's campus and through 15 Baltimore neighborhoods.
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Baltimore

Life in Baltimore as a Student

With more than 120,000 students at 13 colleges and universities throughout the city, Baltimore is very much a college town.
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Life at Loyola

Living on Campus

Loyola’s campus—ranked No. 1 in Maryland and among the Best College Campuses in America—provides students all the benefits of an urban ...
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Campus Life

Student Life at Loyola

No matter what your interests are, Loyola has so many opportunities, clubs, activities, and events and traditions for students to get ...
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Career Preparation

Loyola students acquire the knowledge, experience, and skills to make a living. More importantly, our students leave here having learned how to make a life. They graduate ready for everything they are about to face—today, tomorrow, and 20 years from now. More than ready. Loyola Ready.

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Commencement

Graduating Greyhounds

Meet some of Loyola's Class of 2022 graduates
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Innovation

Innovation at Loyola University Maryland

Loyola faculty and students are actively engaged in a movement focused on innovation, entrepreneurship, and design thinking.
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Entrepreneurship

Loyola’s Baltipreneurs Accelerator helps entrepreneurial student grow jewelry business

Loyola student Maria Jaeckel advances her jewelry business, Blue Bone Jewelry LLC, with support from Loyola and Baltipreneurs Accelerator
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Internships

The importance of internships during college

Internships during college can round out your skills and prepare you for a successful career, as demonstrated by Loyola students
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Photography

Because nothing brings a story to life quite like a picture.

Many students practicing swimming in lanes in a large pool
Students swimming in the Mangione Aquatic Center, home to Greyhounds swimming and diving, in the Fitness and Aquatic Center.
The tall glass windows of the student center in front of a blue sky
The exterior of the Andrew White Student Center seen from below by the staircase next to Diane Geppi-Aikens Field.
The tan-bricked facade of the Donnelly Science center as seen from the intersection of Cold Spring and Charles Street, with a Loyola sign in front
The Loyola University Maryland sign, located on the corner of East Cold Spring Lane and North Charles Street in front of the Donnelly Science Center, welcomes visitors and neighbors to campus.
A bridge with the words Loyola University Maryland surrounded by fall foliage
Autumn foliage frames Loyola’s iconic pedestrian bridge over North Charles Street with its Loyola University Maryland signage.
White fireworks fly up around the Washington Monument in Baltimore
Fireworks burst around the Washington Monument, located in the Mount Vernon neighborhood of Baltimore, at the annual Monument Lighting. Loyola students enjoy Charm City’s seasonal traditions including the annual Monument Lighting and Miracle on 34th Street, which kick-off in early December.
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Students sit at the outdoor tables on the roof-top terrace of the fourth floor of the Andrew White Student Center that overlooks Diane Geppi-Aikens Field.
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A student exits the Career Center, which supports all Loyola students and alumni in career discovery, exploration, preparation, and pursuit through coaching, programs, career fairs and events, and opportunities for professional mentorship.
Students can be seen walking along a paved path and sitting outside of the Humanities Building and student center
Students walking to class and spending time at the outdoor tables behind the Rev. Francis X. Knott, S.J., Humanities Center.
A student does a back flip on stage while other performing students cheer him on
A student performs a back handspring during a Loyola Dance Company performance.
The exterior of Jenkins Hall framed by lush, green trees
Jenkins Hall framed by the large oaks on the Quad—many of the same old oak trees that offered shade for Loyola graduates and their families who celebrated Commencement on the grassy Quad outside Jenkins for many decades.
A student and professor sit on a bench in front of Beatty Hall
A professor and student talk seated on a bench outside of Beatty Hall. In Fall 2021, Beatty Hall reopens with the Fernandez Center for Innovative and Collaborative Learning, a brand-new building that was built adjacent to Beatty and home to the Career Center, classrooms, a new café, and spaces for interactive teaching and learning.
Students sitting and studying in one of the lounges in the student center
Students utilizing the lounge space in the Center for Intercultural Engagement (CIE), located on the third floor of the Andrew White Student Center, find spaces for group work, club meetings, conversation or studying between classes, and events and programming.
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Videos

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Outcomes

What it means to be Loyola Ready

Loyola provides myriad resources and real-world opportunities to prepare students for their careers and lives after graduation.
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Life at Loyola

A Holistic Student Experience

Loyola’s student experience and educational approach develops the mind, body, and spirit.
Loyola's NCAA championship trophy in a display case with a photo of fans in the background
Athletics

Greyhounds Athletics

Loyola's 18 Division I teams compete in the Patriot League and benefit from dedicated coaches, world-class facilities, and fan engagement.
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Spirit and Traditions

The Greyhound Nation

Loyola’s diverse, welcoming, dynamic community of students, faculty, staff, and alumni, and its long-time traditions and school spirit are an integral part of the Loyola experience.
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