Loyola University Chicago, a private university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College, is Chicago’s only Jesuit Catholic University and one of the largest of the 28 Jesuit colleges and universities in the United States.
Loyola University Chicago is comprised of four campuses: Lake Shore (LSC), Water Tower (WTC), Loyola University Health Systems (LUHS) and the John Felice Rome Center in Italy, and is home to nine schools and colleges: arts and sciences, business administration, education, graduate studies, law, medicine, nursing, professional studies and social work.
Recognizing Loyola’s excellence in education, U.S. News and World Report has ranked Loyola consistently among the "top national universities" and "best values" in its annual publications.