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Loyola's Accreditation and National Recognition

Loyola’s Jesuit-centered tradition of academic excellence has been built upon the quality of our faculty, students, and programs, and is enhanced by the many academic resources available to our students.

Outstanding Faculty

Almost all courses are taught by full-time faculty, and 89 percent hold doctoral or equivalent degrees in their area of expertise. Professors have been recognized nationally and internationally by the Pulitzer Committee, the National Science Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and by numerous other professional and scholarly associations.

	Ranked for the last 19 years among the Top 10 Southern region schools in U.S.News & World Report. Ranked 6th Best Master's University in the South in the 2010 edition of America's Best Colleges by U.S.News & World Report and ranked #2 U.S.News & World Report's Great Schools, Great Prices category.
	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. Princeton Review ranked the College of Business among the nation's Best 301 Business Schools for 2010. Ranked fifth in Princeton Review's Best College Libraries 2010 list, along with Harvard, Princeton, Stanford, and Columbia.
	Loyola's M.S.N. programs are accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission (NLNAC), 3343 Peachtree Road, NE, Suite 500, Atlanta, GA 30326, (404) 975 5000.
	Loyola University New Orleans is accredited by the Commission on Colleges of the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools to award Bachelor's, Master's, and JD (Juris Doctor) degrees.*

Other Rankings

• 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.
• 2009 Gulf Coast Athletic Conference Women's Basketball Champions; currently ranked #20 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.