Loyola University New Orleans
University in New Orleans, The United States
Loyola University New Orleans is a Jesuit university in Uptown New Orleans, Louisiana, chartered in 1912 by Jesuit priests. Its Jesuit approach to education aims to form the whole person, which the university says is most visible in its liberal arts curriculum and community service opportunities. The student-faculty ratio is 12:1.
Teaching is organised in these colleges:
- College of Arts and Sciences
- College of Business
- College of Law
- College of Music and Media
- College of Nursing and Health
- Loyola University Online, designed for working professionals
Undergraduates choose from more than 60 majors and minors, among them Computer Science, Filmmaking, Jazz Studies, Music Therapy, Neuroscience, Nursing and Spanish; graduate, professional and online programmes are also offered. For the 2026-27 academic year, tuition and university fees for full-time undergraduates are $53,148. On-campus housing ranges from traditional residence halls to suites and apartments, such as Biever, Buddig and Cabra Halls, and includes themed living communities. There is no application fee, international students have their own admissions route, and the university has a Center for International Education.
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Programmes
More than 60 undergraduate majors and minors, for example:
- Accounting, finance, marketing and international business
- Biology, neuroscience and nursing
- Computer science, including game programming and cybersecurity
- Criminology and justice, political science
- Mass communication and filmmaking
- Music: jazz studies, music therapy, hip-hop and R&B music production
- Spanish, including a teacher education track
- Theatre arts and dance
Fees
Estimated annual cost for full-time undergraduates, 2026-27 academic year:
- Tuition and university fees: $53,148
- Residence hall room (double, on campus): $9,560
- Meal plan: $6,500 for residents, $700 for off-campus students
- Total: $69,208 living on campus, $53,848 off campus
Part-time study costs $1,437 per credit hour, and new first-year students pay a one-time $260 orientation fee. Online students are charged per credit hour. Books, supplies and travel are extra.
Housing
Loyola has on-campus residence halls ranging from traditional rooms to suites and apartments:
- Biever Hall: double and triple rooms
- Buddig Hall: suites for first-year and upper-class students
- Cabra Hall: on the Broadway campus, on St. Charles Avenue
- Blanche and Norman C. Francis Family Hall: suites and apartments for upper-class students
- Founders Hall: for second-, third- and fourth-year students on the Broadway campus
Themed living communities group students with shared interests on the same floor. Students apply for housing after being accepted.
Subjects taught
- Arts, Design and Crafts
- Theatre
- Performing Arts
- Business
- Business Administration
- Communications
- Communications
- Education
- Education
- Humanities
- History
- Philosophy
- Theology
- Law
- Law
- Philology, Languages, Literature
- Philology and Linguistics
- Sciences
- Biology
- Political Science
- Physics
- Mathematics
- Psychology
- Chemistry
- Sociology