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Loyola University

Baltimore, Maryland

Loyola University Campus Profile

Loyola University was established in 1852 as a small private liberal arts & sciences institution affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church. The university is composed of undergraduate, and graduate school programs within the City of Baltimore’s western community of Roland Park. Loyola’s network of private educational facilities offer comprehensive undergraduate, and graduate programs in several different fields including biological sciences, business, communications, computer sciences, education, and social sciences. Loyola prepares students for careers in the above-mentioned undergraduate schools through educational, and certificate programs. The school itself is located in hill top community of Roland Park, which is approximately 2 miles west from downtown Baltimore.

The university is unique because it’s located within the historic suburban neighborhood of Roland Park with it’s historic Colonial Style homes located within a short bus ride to the city. The school is also unique because it borders several urban commercial, and residential communities, which gives students additional campus life resources, including housing within a short walk from the campus. The university is very spread out geographically for a city school with facilities starting on York Ave to the east and continuing along Coldspring Lane to the west. The northern point of the campus footprint lies on Homeland Road in the heart of the school’s off campus housing facilities. Loyola’s main campus footprint can be found on Coldsprings Lane, and North Charles Street.

As you can see, the university’s footprint is large for a private urban school with 89 acres of park like property, bordering a historic suburban community. Loyola’s educational landscape offers students a professional education while still allowing students to enjoy a close-knit city community. The Roland Park campus offers students a college town community without boundaries within the state’s largest city. The campus has approximately 29 buildings including lecture, residential, research, studio, resource centers, and dining facilities. The internal campus setting also provides students, employees, and alumni with several types of services including health, physical fitness, library, cultural meeting places, and several large green areas.

The issue of student housing on campus is a challenge for Loyola because the school is located in a major city within the Washington D.C. corridor of the northeast, which makes housing resources scarce. The university only guarantees housing for it’s freshman students who have filed for on campus resources. Upperclassmen can receive housing on a first come, first served basis, currently the university has 2,798 students living on campus which is approximately 81% of it’s total population. The school actively competes for local real estate resources within the general area of the university to help students enjoy campus life. Local real estate brokers have also purchased several local residence buildings along Homeland Road to the north of campus, and Greenmount Ave to the southeast over the years to convert into new residential facilities for students to enjoy.

The physical layout of Loyola’s campus is unique to the City of Baltimore because the school is spilt into 3 different segments with residential facilities located on the east, and west ends of the campus, with the main academic buildings situated in the middle. The school’s footprint also observes several large green areas between the housing and academic facilities with metal gates contouring to Coldsprings Lane on the southern edge of the campus. Loyola is also unique for an urban school because it’s surrounded by several blocks of historic Tudor Style homes east of the athletic facilities off Millbrook Road. The private residential neighborhood continues east to York Road, and north to Radnor Road. The school’s main entrance is located off Millbrook Road that welcomes students to Rev. Francis Knott Hall along a campus green that starts at Knott Hall and winds west to Alumni Chapel

The school uses metal fencing and natural waist high stonewalls as natural barriers for entrance to the campus. The school has several formal entranceways that welcome students and parents to the area including local roads to the Fitness & Recreation Center on North Charles Street, and Notre Dame Lane & Winston Ave, which leads to the eastern housing facilities on campus. Another interesting observation about this mixed residential community are the students themselves. Loyola College is a very mixed community with local residents, students, tourists, and commercial facilities all within the city’s landscape. You will find students wearing Loyola apparel in moderation but mostly you will find students and local residents embracing the city culture by not relieving school colors.

Loyola has developed several resident villages within the campus landscape to provide housing that’s in close proximity to several green areas, lecture halls, and the Andrew White Student Center for easy access to student life facilities. Loyola is a small sized Catholic school that has links to Baltimore, and nearby Washington D.C. on a 24-hour basis including government buildings & services, music & theatre productions, sporting & cultural events, museums, nightlife, and restaurants. Loyola’ s Roland Park location also allows students to enjoy additional student nightlife on the campus of Johns Hopkins University, which is also located in the Roland Park area of Baltimore.

The internal campus setting provides students and employees with several types of student services including physical fitness, library services, and cultural meeting places and dining halls. Loyola College’s observed focal points of reference during the campus tour was the academic buildings along the “Quad” in the rear of Maryland Hall, and the campus life buildings including DeChiaro College Center, White Student Center, Loyola’s Recreation Center, Alumni Chapel, Newman Towers, McAuley Residence Quad, and the Loyola/Notre Dame Library, which are the main internal student life areas of the upper campus. Students also use these multi-story facilities to socialize and talk about school and life. The external observed focal points for the college can be found along Winston Ave on Alumni Field on the eastern side of campus, and Aikens Field on the south side of campus with students enjoying several small green areas along the perimeter of the housing facilities.

The published demographic information for the college describes a culturally diverse student population with students from all across the world. Loyola College has developed several different programs, within it’s educational network to offer students a Liberal Arts and Science, Research, and a Comprehensive education format to enhance it’s commitment to different types of career endeavors. The college has also developed independent affiliates with several global universities to highlight it’s commitment to global learning. Below is a description of demographics for Loyola’s campus within the Roland Park section of Baltimore Maryland.

The University is home to approximately 1,468 male, and 2,061 female full time students; Loyola also has a graduate school population with 901 male, and 1,460 female students enrolled. The average age of a freshman is 18 years old. 82% of students are from out of state, mostly the northeast States. Students on campus provide a diverse multi-cultural makeup including students from 38 states, 15 foreign countries, and Canada. 78% of Loyola students are Catholic, 9% are Protestant, and 9% are Christian Orthodox, and 4% claim no religious affiliation. 85% of students are white, 5% are African American, 3% Asian Americans, and 3% are Hispanic, and 4% race unknown.

Published Academic Standards for Admission Programs

Loyola University has a small educational system, which offers Liberal Arts, and Sciences, Research, Public Health, and Business programs. Below is a specific list of under graduate admission requirements.

Student Housing

The purpose of student housing is to provide safe and reasonable accommodations for students living away from home. The issue of housing and dormitory life is a critical element of overall campus life because students spend a large amount of time in their rooms. Student housing units historically come in 3 different styles including traditional corridor, suite, and apartment style units.

Loyola only guarantees housing for freshman students who have filed their intent the college by the stated deadline. Housing is available through a lottery system for upper classman who have continuously registered as full time students. Loyola currently has 2,798 students living on campus, which is approximately 81% of it’s students. Housing resources on campus are situated within several different villages including the Upper Campus Towers, the Lower Campus Residence Quads, and the apartments off Winston Ave. The college has developed new apartment style-housing units for upper classman within the campus off Notre Dame Lane to keep more upperclassman on campus. Information about housing can be found on the quick links page of this document.

Off Campus Housing

Loyola University has been described as a Catholic institution located in a mixed residential community in commuter distance to downtown Baltimore. The reason I have mentioned the overall community of Roland Park is to re-assert the point that Loyola’s network of affiliated off campus facilities are shared with several different stakeholders including local working class families, Johns Hopkins University students as well as Loyola students. The campus footprint allows almost every student to have housing within walking distance to the campus. The issue of off campus housing within a major city is always a difficult situation, the challenge to provide affordable housing to students becomes magnified when other local colleges and universities are competing for the same real estate. Loyola has developed housing networks with several local apartment & town home communities to help students find off campus resources. Information about off campus housing can be found on the Loyola’s quick links page of this document.

Campus Life

Loyola University is a multi-cultural campus environment that provides students with an excellent social, and educational atmosphere. The admissions demographics paint a picture of a very diverse community with students from all over the world. The local community of Roland Park/ Baltimore only adds to the college’s international status because the community has multi-cultural roots as well. Loyola also addresses the issue of ecology in a positive way. The physical environment is reasonably clean and well maintained and the economic conditions are favorable to students and local residents due to the available services in walking distance to the school.

The emotional climate and culture of the entire Loyola community is a combination of intellectual and social due to it’s close relationship with the mixed residential community. The school’s mature student population, educational, and athletic resources makes Loyola an attractive institution because it offers students real world professional experiences in Baltimore and nearby Washington D.C, while providing social relationships with local organizations and community groups through student activities for everyone to enjoy throughout the year.

The university also thrives on it’s physical and intellectual relationships with several local colleges and universities including Johns Hopkins University, and the University of Maryland located in the College Park section of suburban Baltimore. These schools connect to each other on several Red Line Bus Lines as part of Baltimore’s mass transit system. Students at Loyola can also enjoy student life in Suburban Maryland and Washington D.C. by connecting to several Maryland Mass Transit Administration (MTA) lines throughout the city. These valuable transit lines link to Washington’s Metro Train system, and Amtrak’s regional northeast corridor train lines. Students flock to Washington each year to enjoy the nations capital campus lifestyle in regard to activities, socialization, theatre, sports, and history. Washington D.C. can be considered one the nations main college cities because it has several distinguished institutions, and a mass transit system that can connects them to the Washington D.C. cityscape.

This issue of school culture is also a very important part of campus life because everyone wants to have a connection and emotional fit to their new school and community. Loyola is first, and foremost a college that is linked physically and emotionally to the Roman Catholic Church. The college has done a great job developing positive social systems with it’s students by providing a series of coordinated programs including cornerstone workshops and seminars for freshman students to advance these studies. This type of process provides a foundation for learning and personal growth providing over 101 academic clubs, student organizations, and over 15 intramural sports activities.

Campus life at Loyola is more than academic excellence; it’s about building personal relationships with students and facility that continues throughout each student’s career. The school also offers students the ability to enjoy school sports, performing arts, history, cultural events, restaurants, and local museums. For example, Baltimore & Washington D.C. has hundreds of venues to enjoy the previously stated activities including the theatre district, the Inner Harbor, Camden Yards, M& T Bank Stadium (NFL/Ravens), and the Washington (NFL/Redskins) in nearby Fedex Stadium. Washington D.C. also has student friendly Georgetown, and Foggy Bottom (G.W. University) for students to enjoy.

Students at Loyola can walk to Aikens Field to watch field sports or they can enjoy Loyola’s 115,000 square foot recreation, and aquatic center on North Charles Street. Loyola College’s men’s, and women’s athletic teams also play several sports including Soccer & Lacrosse within the schools new athletic complex. Loyola participates in 17 NCAA Division I varsity sports for women and men and the overall exercise facilities within the campus are fantastic with students enjoying the Recreation Center on a daily basis.

Public Transportation

Loyola University has developed a student shuttle system that connects students with several areas of Roland Park including connections to Baltimore and suburban Maryland’s transit system through several different shuttle bus routes. In formation about this service can be found on the quick links page of this document. The Maryland Transit Authority (MTA) have several bus stops on Cold Springs Lane for the (Blue Line) within Baltimore’s Red Line Transit System for residents of Roland Park and Loyola College. This valuable service connects to all of Baltimore & Maryland’s transit lines and regional train services including the Maryland Rail Commuter Service (MARC) for Amtrak and Baltimore & Washington International Airport (BWI).

Regional Public transportation resources can be found within Pennsylvania Station on North Charles Street that link with trains to suburban Maryland, and lines to Washington D.C. and suburban Virginia through (MARC & MTA). Amtrak also uses Penn Station as a major hub within it’s Northeast Corridor. People who live, work, and visit Baltimore usually travel by some type of mass transit. Students should be encouraged to purchase a metro card to get around. Mass transit information can be found at: www.mta.Maryland.com & www.gobaltimore.com

Baltimore Maryland is located within close proximity to Washington D.C., and Virginia to the south, and the state of Delaware to the north, which make it convenient to several suburban communities and highway networks. The city itself also has several main roadways that connect the community to major state highways including the Maryland Turnpike (Route 95) that links to Washington D.C and suburban Delaware, which is the main highway corridor on the eastern seaboard. Shopping, restaurants, and national hotel chains can be found within these major transportation networks after a short drive from the campus.

Community Profile

The Roland Park area of Baltimore Maryland has been described in different ways, including a working class suburban community centered around it’s local college and a tourist heaven due to it’s geographical location within the City of Baltimore. The neighborhood has a normal amount of restaurants, retail, and entertainment resources for a small campus community. The hill top area can also be considered a working class residential community with colonial style homes and apartment buildings lining several streets. The community also has several shopping areas on York Road located on the eastern edge, and the Rotunda Shopping Center on W 40th Street within the southwest edge of campus within 15 minute walk to the main gates. Student population and historical neighborhood architecture can be found mainly within 4 blocks of the main gates within the overall neighborhood. The greatest number of residents in this area is in fact students, and employees of Loyola and Johns Hopkins University.

The community has a suburban type feel to it because a large number of people live, work, and study within the area. Roland Park can also be considered a commuter village because large numbers of local residents travel to downtown Baltimore to work. The City of Baltimore and the suburbs of Maryland are a maze of local neighborhoods that are unique to the people who live and work in them; the city of is no exception. Roland Park can be considered a mixed residential area because you have commercial, residential, cultural, and intellectual all within the same block with people walking around the Loyola campus on their way to work, or home. The areas around North Charles Street, York Road, and Cold Springs Lane are the major pedestrian walkways in Roland Park for students, residents, and commuters because it’s really in the middle of the community.

The following demographics for the City of Baltimore describe a multi-cultural community within a total population of 631,366 according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Loyola has a strong relationship with this diverse community. An example of this commitment can be observed through Loyola College’s community services handbook that describes educational programs, health care programs and services, legal programs and services to local residents who may require community help.

A Census Bureau community survey highlights several characteristics to describe the population including: 46.6% of residents are male, 53.4% are female. 32% of residents are white, 64% are African American, 2% are Hispanic or Latino, and 2% are Asian. The median age of population is 35 years old. 76% of residents are 18 years old or over and 12% of city residents is over the age of 65. The issue of housing in Baltimore is also interesting. 80% of all housing units within the city are occupied. 49% of housing units are renter-occupied, while 51% of units are owner-occupied. 20% of total available housing was vacant in the city.

Local weather

Weather is also an issue to consider for students preparing for a college experience. Maryland enjoys all four seasons of weather including rain and snow. Northeast weather patterns sometimes allow for temperatures to drop below 32 degrees for a considerable amount of time during the winter. Baltimore also gets it’s share of rain during the spring and summer months as well.

Loyola University Quick Links

Baltimore Maryland Area Hotel Quick Links

Radisson Hotel Cross Keys
5100 Falls Road
Baltimore MD 21210
Sheraton Baltimore North
903 Dulaney Valley Road
Towson MD 21204
Doubletree Baltimore Hotel
4 West University Parkway
Baltimore MD 21218

Below is a list of accommodations approximately 15 minutes from Loyola College within the Inner Harbor of Baltimore Maryland

Renaissance Baltimore Harbor Place
202 East Pratt Street
Baltimore MD 21202
Hyatt Regency Baltimore Harbor
300 Light Street
Baltimore MD 21202
Baltimore Marriott Waterfront
700 Aliceanna Street
Baltimore MD 21202
Sheraton Inner Harbor Hotel
300 South Charles Street
Baltimore MD 21201
Hampton Inn Inner Harbor
131 East Redwood Street
Baltimore MD 21202
Hilton Inner Harbor Hotel
401 West Pratt Street
Baltimore MD 21201

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