Rankings + Honors

• Ranked for the last 18 years among the Top 10 Southern region schools in U.S.News & World Report.

• Cited in Princeton Review's annual list of the Best 368 Colleges. In the same list, the College of Social Sciences was named one of the Great Schools for Communications Majors and Great Schools for Journalism Majors.

• Ranked 5th Best Master's University in the South in the 2008 edition of America's Best Colleges by U.S.News & World Report and ranked #1 U.S.News & World Report's Great Schools, Great Prices category.

• Princeton Review ranked the College of Business and College of Law among the nation's Best 290 Business Schools and Best 170 Law Schools in 2008.

• Ranked seventh in Princeton Review's Best College Libraries 2009 list, along with Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Columbia.

• Forbes.com ranked Loyola 259 out of 569 schools in its inaugural list of America’s Best Colleges. The list, taken from more than 6,000 colleges and universities in the United States, was compiled using student surveys, graduation rates, accumulated student debt and alumni listings in Who’s Who in America.

• Named one of America's 300 Best Buys in Barron's Best Buys in College Education and ranks in the top seven percent of the 1,500 colleges and universities ranked by Barron's.

• 2007 GCAC/NAIA Women's Basketball Champions; currently ranked #15 in the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics Top 25.
  


• Home to the prestigious Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance program.
  


• Rated A for our safety record and listed as one of the safest universities in the country by Reader's Digest in 2008.
  


• Rated A+ for standard long-term and underlying rating on issued bonds by Standard & Poor's.
  


• Named to the President's Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll for community service activities during the 2006–2007 academic year.