Investigate the social world around you and use science to improve it.

Sociology is for you if you want to understand patterns of human behavior, problems, and institutions. Community engaged professors will give you the skills and analytical tools to learn about the things you really care about, so you can do something to improve the world around you.

Undergraduate Programs

Bachelor of Arts in Sociology

The religions of the world have tremendous influence on the world’s communities and cultures.

Religions shape every aspect of life including political and economic policies, human rights, literature, art, and the environment. At Loyola, you will explore the past, present, and emerging future of these religions. You will examine what people believe, why they believe it, and how their beliefs form private and public lives.

Undergraduate Degree Programs

Bachelor of Arts in Religious Studies

If the human brain and behavior fascinates you, Psychological Sciences might be the program for you.

You want to understand how the human mind thinks and learns, and how it processes decisions and perceptions. And you want to use that knowledge to ​help others. Whatever your goals, our program and expert faculty will prepare for success in research, continued study, and a career.​

Because the effects of politics are so immediately felt, political science is a field that’s often dramatized.

But popular entertainment dramas often miss the importance of a deeper understanding of politics and political power—how it is acquired and how organized governments use it. Political Science analyzes systems of government, ranging from cities to contemporary nation-states, as well as the theory and practice of politics and the resultant distribution of power and resources.

Einstein. Newton. Hawking. Bohr. And you.

These are the people who dare to say that our world, full of strange phenomena and seemingly unpredictable processes, is explainable. Physicists investigate and articulate the laws that govern our universe -- from the largest scales of the entire cosmos, to the smallest subatomic particles, and everything in between.

Undergraduate Degree Programs

Bachelor of Science in Physics

Philosophers ask difficult questions about issues that are central to human existence:
What is a meaningful life?

What is the relationship between mind and body? How can one distinguish between right and wrong actions? Are there reasons to think that God exists? By studying philosophy, you’ll meet and converse with some of the greatest minds of history.

Undergraduate Degree Programs

Bachelor of Arts in Philosophy

You will use math today. Everybody will.

Mathematics is a powerful subject. You’ll use it when you check the time—or the speed limit. Newton, Galileo, da Vinci, Fibonacci: They used it in a variety of disciplines, and we still feel the echo of their work today—because math is where everything starts. That’s where you come in. No matter what career path you choose, mathematics will give you a firm foundation on which to pursue your goals.

Sometimes when opportunity calls, it speaks another language.

When you meet someone, knowing another language gives you an additional opportunity to connect. That’s why the goal of our program is to teach more than just the appreciation of other languages, literatures, and cultures, but also to broaden perspectives and gain a better understanding of the world.