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Loyola University New Orleans is a private, co-educational Jesuit university in the
United States with 5,000 students (3,000 undergraduates). Loyola University
New Orleans' main campus is located in the Uptown neighborhood, fifteen minutes
from the historic French Quarter, across St. Charles Avenue from Audubon Park
and coterminous to the main campus of Tulane University. Loyola University New
Orleans is one of 28 member institutions of the Association of Jesuit Colleges
and Universities and is the largest Catholic University in the southern United
States. Loyola University New Orleans ranked sixth in the category of best South
regional (master's) universities in the 2008 issue of the annual America's Best
Colleges issue and guidebook published by U.S. News & World Report. Loyola’s history dates back to the early 18th century when the Jesuits first arrived among the earliest settlers in New Orleans and Louisiana. Loyola University New Orleans was founded by the Society of Jesus in 1904 as Loyola College on a section of the Foucher Plantation bought by the Jesuits in 1886. According to University lore, Fr. Albert Biever was given a nickel for street car fare and told by his Jesuit superiors to travel Uptown on the St. Charles Streetcar and found a college. As with many Jesuit schools, it contained both a college and preparatory academy. |
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Established 1904, chartered July 10, 1912 Type: AJCU Endowment: US $326 million President: Rev. Kevin Wm. Wildes, S.J. Staff: 240 Undergraduates: 3,000 Postgraduates: 2,000 Location New Orleans, LA, USA |
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Loyola grew steadily over the years on its uptown campus. For many years, the University
consisted mainly of Marquette and Bobet Hall, with large athletic fields
extending back towards the end of the campus at Freret St. Loyola has the distinction
of transmitting the first radio broadcast in the Deep South, when WWL
began operation as a laboratory experiment on March 31, 1922. With the discontinuance of the football program in the 1930s, more space became available for construction of new facilities. Stallings Hall, built as a dedicated building for the College Of Business Administration, and the Library (now known as the "Old Library") were constructed in the post World War II years, accommodating the growth of the student population. |