Private · New Orleans, LA
Loyola University New Orleans
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Overview
A Jesuit school built into New Orleans, Loyola's College of Music and Media runs jazz and music-business programs a few blocks from the city that invented the genre, and Harry Connick Jr. studied piano here before he was famous enough to need a stage name. Small enough that most students know their professors by name, it leans on the Ignatian idea of educating the whole person rather than just a major.
About Loyola University New Orleans
- Type
- Private University
- Setting
- Urban
- Undergraduates
- 2,812
Admissions
- Early Decision/Early Action
- Yes
- Accepts Common App
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Cost
Tuition and aid
- Full cost of attendance
- $65,407per year
- Average family income
- $87,667
- Students with a school grant
- 99%
- Average school grant
- $31,508
- Average federal debt
- $25,000at graduation
- Need-blind
- —
- Meets full need
- —
- Merit scholarships
- Yes
- CSS Profile
- —
- International aid
- —
Academics
- Majors offered
- 55
- Freshmen who return
- 80%
- Notable
- 30 creditsIB Diploma holders can earn toward a Loyola degree, close to a full year
Students
Campus life
- Setting
- Urban
- Location
- New Orleans, LA
- Live on campus
- —
- Student organizations
- —
- Varsity sports
- —
With about 3,000 undergrads, 115 student organizations and 14 Greek chapters, Loyola runs small enough that the Maroon, the student paper since 1923, has room to cover things like furniture feedback on a new dorm build, not just headline news. The Maroon calls itself "a mirror and a lamp" for the community rather than a typical student outlet, and dorm reviews on campus split the usual way: older halls draw more complaints than newer builds. What makes Loyola specific is the setting: St. Charles Avenue, streetcars out front, and a New Orleans music and food culture the Music and Media college leans directly into. The Ignacio Volunteer Program and a Jesuit service tradition give the small size a clear direction.
Summarized by Spike from what students write: The Maroon, Loyola Campus Life.
Outcomes
- Earnings 6 years in
- $42,540
- Graduate within 6 years
- 63%
- Average federal debt
- $25,000
- Graduates go into
- Fulbright Scholars
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