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Loyola Featured In Princeton Review's The Best 361 Colleges
J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library Makes Top 10 List
Loyola University offers students an outstanding undergraduate education, according to The Princeton Review. The New York-based education services company features the college in the new 2007 edition of its annual book, The Best 361 Colleges (Random House / Princeton Review, August 22, 2006, $21.95). Only about 15% of the four-year colleges in America and two Canadian colleges are in the book. It has two-page profiles of the schools and student survey-based ranking lists of top 20 colleges in more than 60 categories.
Loyola’s J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library has ranked 10th in the “Best College Library” category. Topping the list of “Best College Library” is Harvard. The Monroe Library’s ranking among the top 10 college libraries in the country is a testimony to excellence of its staff and faculty who are committed to customer service and providing the most up-to-date technology and resources to its users. “It's great for us to be recognized in the rankings for our library”, says Deborah Stieffel, dean of admissions and enrollment management. “Harvard ranks at the top of that list, which makes it a great achievement.”
In a "Survey Says. . ." sidebar in the book's profile on Loyola University New Orleans, The Princeton Review lists topics that Loyola students it surveyed for the book were in most agreement about. The list includes: "Small Classes," "Great Computer Facilities," and "Great Library."
Princeton Review's Vice President of Publishing Robert Franek says, "We chose schools for this book primarily for their outstanding academics. We evaluated them based on institutional data we collect about the schools, feedback from students attending them, and our visits to schools over the years. We also consider the opinions of independent college counselors, students and parents we hear from and survey year-long. Finally, we work to have a wide representation of colleges in the book by region, size, selectivity and character."
In its profile on Loyola University, The Princeton Review quotes extensively from Loyola students surveyed for the book. Among their candid comments on the college: Loyola is “a place of great diversity that allows students to gain knowledge in all areas of education as well as in matters of the world.”
Monroe Library Wins National Excellence Award
Loyola’s J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library is the winner of the Association of College & Research Libraries’ 2003 "Excellence in Academic Libraries Award." The award, given to an outstanding community college, college, and university library each year, recognizes the accomplishments of librarians and other library staff as they come together as members of a team to support the mission of their institution. Loyola, the recipient in the university library division, now joins a prestigious list of winners which has most recently included Cornell University and the University of Arizona.The Association of College and Research Libraries, the largest division of the American Library Association, is a professional association of academic librarians and other interested individuals. It is dedicated to enhancing the ability of academic library and information professionals to serve the information needs of the higher education community and to improve learning, teaching, and research.
National Rankings and Recognition
Loyola’s J. Edgar and Louise S. Monroe Library has ranked 10th in the “Best College Library” category. Topping the list of “Best College Library” is Harvard. The Monroe Library’s ranking among the top 10 college libraries in the country is a testimony to excellence of its staff and faculty who are committed to customer service and providing the most up-to-date technology and resources to its users.
Loyola University New Orleans College of Business and College of Law are among the nation’s most outstanding schools, according to The Princeton Review. Both colleges are featured in the New York-based education services company’s 2007 publications “Best 282 Business Schools” and “Best 170 Law Schools,” respectively.
In recent years, Loyola has consistently ranked among the top regional colleges and universities in the South and is one of the top 60 in the United States in U.S. News & World Report’s special issue “America’s Best Colleges.”
Loyola also has been 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.
