Sellinger Scholars

Loyola’s Sellinger Scholars Program is a cohort-based leadership development program that integrates a servant leadership model. Our honors curriculum in business administration provides academic rigor in a supportive learning environment for high-achieving business students who learn from dedicated expert faculty—professors who serve as teachers, advisors, and mentors. The program collaborates with Baltimore-based non-profit and corporate partners to provide students opportunities to make a meaningful impact in our local community and work toward a more just and equitable world. Sellinger Scholars gain the skills and desire to think critically, evaluate holistically, and become leaders of transformative change. Students emerge from the program with an understanding of leadership, social responsibility, and reflection upon personal and professional choices.

Sellinger Scholars Application

Program Overview

Driven by the University's mission “to inspire students to learn, lead, and serve in a diverse and changing world,” the Sellinger Scholars Program strives to enhance students' understanding of leadership, individual, and corporate social responsibility, while fostering greater reflection on personal and professional choices.

As a Sellinger Scholar, students are provided with:

• A course of study in the student’s desired business major, enhanced by academic rigor beyond the
  traditional curriculum of the Bachelor of Business Administration and Bachelor of Science in Finance degree programs.
• Exclusive opportunities to network and interact with business professionals and thought leaders
• A support network of peers who act as a cohort throughout your four years at Loyola
• Faculty mentors who provide guidance, help you acclimate to college life, and advise you about opportunities for internships, research, and career development in business-related fields

Application Criteria & Process

Admission is based on the comprehensive application package which evaluates a candidate’s academic achievement, leadership potential, community and service involvement, strong communication skills, and professionalism.

Please review the application materials and process based on your class year:

Curriculum Components

The Sellinger Scholars Program has two primary components:

1. Curricular Coursework: Sellinger Scholars students take the required Sellinger foundational courses together as a cohort which fulfill degree requirements for the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA or Bachelor of Science in Finance). The required coursework offers increased rigor in the form of outside reading, discussion, and class presentations. Sellinger Scholars program foundational courses are sequenced and designed to allow for greater interaction with faculty and classmates.
2. Sellinger Scholars Experience/Seminar: Beginning in the sophomore year, Scholars enroll in the Sellinger Scholars Experience/Seminar, a one-credit course designed to nurture the personal and professional growth of the individual, enhance the academic experience, and broaden the learning environment.  The courses offer students the opportunity to participate in professional, social, and community service activities in the Baltimore area. These one-credit courses are taken each semester unless the student is studying abroad.

Activities include:

• Skills-based training
• Guest lecturers
• Site visits to area businesses
• Community service
• Professional development
• Networking

Curriculum Coursework

Required Sellinger Scholar courses fulfill degree requirements for the core business classes for the Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) and Bachelor of Science in Finance degree and are taken in sequence.  Scholars also take the Sellinger Scholars Experience (sophomore year) and Seminar one-credit course (junior and senior year).

Based on your class year, review a map of the Sellinger Scholar curriculum and the courses you will take each semester while you are in the Sellinger Scholars Program.

Maintaining Scholar Status

Upon acceptance into the Sellinger Scholars Program, students are expected to meet the following academic standards each semester:

1. Maintain full-time status (at least 12 credits each semester); 
2. Maintain a minimum 3.30 cumulative GPA;
3. Full participation in the Sellinger Scholars Foundational Cohort Courses; and
4. Full participation in the Sellinger Scholars Experience/Seminar Course

Upon completion of the program, a notation will appear on the college transcript indicating that the student was a Sellinger Scholars Program participant.

Further Inquiries

Lynne Elkes
Academic Director 
410-617-5495
sellingerscholars@loyola.edu