Loyola Marymount University

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Loyola Marymount University offers rigorous undergraduate, graduate, and professional programs to academically ambitious students committed to lives of meaning and purpose. We benefit from our location in Los Angeles. This dynamic city brings into sharp focus the issues of our time and provides an ideal context for study, research, creative work, and active engagement.
The University is institutionally committed to Roman Catholicism. It takes its real inspiration from the combined heritage of the Jesuits, the Marymount Sisters, and the Sisters of St. Joseph of Orange. This Catholic identity and religious heritage distinguish LMU from other universities and provide touchstones for understanding our threefold mission.
Academic life at LMU is intense, illuminating, and powered by real-world learning experiences on campus, our vibrant Los Angeles community, and around the world.
At our seven colleges and schools, bright and motivated students work with exceptional scholar-mentors to take on new challenges, explore fresh perspectives, and make exciting discoveries about the world and themselves. The LMU academic experience starts with a centuries-old Jesuit tradition of educating the whole person through a comprehensive grounding in the sciences, arts, and humanities. Whether in class, at an internship in L.A., or while conducting summer research abroad, LMU students know that what they are learning and experiencing today will help get them exactly where they want to go tomorrow.
Double-major in entrepreneurship and urban studies, join a living/learning community, study abroad in South America, an intern for a Silicon Beach start-up — the LMU undergraduate experience offers so many different ways to challenge yourself, grow as an individual, find your place in the world, and have an incredible time doing it.
At LMU, our graduate programs prepare students for advanced positions of leadership and impact across many professions and fields. By merging theory and practice and engaging students with the outside world, our graduate programs produce higher-level thinkers, practitioners, researchers, and creators. Our alumni hold significant leadership positions in Southern California and beyond.
Through these connections and others maintained by our faculty, students leave our graduate programs not only prepared to take the next step professionally and personally but supported in their endeavors to embark on this exciting new journey.
An excellent LMU education isn't reserved for undergraduate and graduate students. Utilizing both in-class and online platforms, LMU Extension offers transformative learning opportunities to the community through professional certificate programs, coursework, and special events in business and nonprofit development, education, ministry, the arts, and other fields of study that support the academic and professional goals of nontraditional students and lifelong learners.
LMU students represent every U.S. state and dozens of countries. 97% of LMU undergraduate students have a positive outcome lined up within six months of graduating, such as a job or graduate school opportunity. Apply today and take the first step in the LMU experience.
Research and creative work are integral to the student's development, both as a scholar and as an individual. At LMU, research is encouraged the moment students are accepted to the University. Whether you major in studio arts or electrical engineering, all LMU students have the incredible opportunity to conduct original hands-on work under the close mentorship of LMU faculty.
Loyola Marymount University libraries are overflowing with intellectual resources — physical collections, digital databases, and staff expertise — to assist LMU students and faculty in reaching their fullest academic potential.
Having fun and staying busy is easy when you live on one of America's top 10 most beautiful college campuses in one of the world's most vibrant, diverse, and dynamic cities. There is almost too much to squeeze into 24 hours at Loyola Marymount University. What to do first: a morning run on the bluff or hang with friends over smoothies and caffeine at the Lion's Den? And when classes and internships are done for the day, do you want to catch a basketball game? Whether you are a fitness nut, a committed community service volunteer, a movie buff, or all of the above, life is busy, fun, and beautiful at LMU.
LMU students are famously friendly, generous, creative, open-minded, and eager for new experiences. As a campus community, we perform nearly 200,000 hours of service every year, including ServeLA and the unforgettable Special Games. Your fellow students have their online T.V. network and operate one of the most highly regarded independent college radio stations in the country. We support more than 160 student clubs and organizations and root for 22 Division I and varsity teams.
The present University is the successor to the pioneer Catholic college and first higher learning institution in Southern California. In 1865, the Vincentian Fathers inaugurated St. Vincent's College for boys in Los Angeles. When this school closed in 1911, members of the Society of Jesus opened the high school division of their newly founded Los Angeles College.
Rapid growth prompted the Jesuits to seek a new campus in 1917 and incorporate it as Loyola College of Los Angeles in 1918. Relocating to the present Westchester campus in 1929, the school achieved university status one year later. Graduate instruction began in 1920 with the foundation of a separate law school. The formation of a graduate division occurred in June 1950, although the graduate work had formed an integral part of the Teacher Education Program during the preceding two years.

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