Loyola University Chicago
Loyola University Chicago is a private Jesuit research university in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1870 by the Society of Jesus and named after Saint Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the order.芝加哥洛约拉大学是位于美国伊利诺伊州芝加哥的一所私立耶稣会研究型大学,1870 年由耶稣会创办,以会祖圣依纳爵·罗耀拉命名。
It is one of the largest Catholic universities in the United States by enrolment, comprises 13 colleges and schools, offers more than 80 undergraduate and 140 graduate programmes and enrols about 17,000 students.该校按注册人数计是美国最大的天主教大学之一,下设 13 个学院,开设 80 余个本科项目与 140 余个研究生项目,约有 17,000 名学生。
It sits in the 1201-1400 band of the QS World University Rankings 2027, was not included in the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and U.S. News placed it 949th globally for 2026-2027 while the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities put it in the 901-1000 band.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1201-1400 区间,未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名;U.S. News 的 2026-2027 年度榜单将其列为全球第 949 位,2026 年软科世界大学学术排名则将其列入 901-1000 区间。
History
- On 30 June 1870 the Jesuit priest and educator Arnold Damen founded St. Ignatius College, at a time when Chicago was a rapidly growing city of just under 300,000 people.1870 年 6 月 30 日,耶稣会神父、教育家阿诺德·达门创办圣依纳爵学院,当时的芝加哥是一座人口略低于 30 万、正快速扩张的城市。
- The original campus stood much closer to the city centre along Roosevelt Road, and its first building later became part of St. Ignatius College Prep, next to the University of Illinois at Chicago.最初的校园位于更靠近市中心的罗斯福路沿线,其第一座建筑后来成为圣依纳爵预科学校的一部分,毗邻伊利诺伊大学芝加哥分校。
- To serve a growing industrial city, the college opened a law department in 1908, the first of the professional schools that would define the institution's later profile.为服务不断扩张的工业城市,学院于 1908 年开设法律系,这是日后塑造该校面貌的一系列专业学院中的第一个。
- In 1909 the institution was renamed Loyola University, adopting the family name of Saint Ignatius in place of the original St. Ignatius College title.1909 年,学校更名为洛约拉大学,以圣依纳爵的家族姓氏取代原先的圣依纳爵学院之名。
- The medical school followed in 1909, and together with law it gave the university two professional faculties anchored in Chicago's downtown institutions.医学院于 1909 年设立,与法学院一道,使这所大学拥有了两个依托芝加哥市中心机构的专业学院。
- In 1912 the university began moving to the Lake Shore Campus on the north side, a process that turned a downtown commuter college into a residential university facing Lake Michigan.1912 年,学校开始迁往北侧的湖滨校区,这一过程把一所市中心的走读学院变成了面向密歇根湖的住宿型大学。
- A downtown campus was founded in 1914 together with a School of Sociology, the predecessor of the School of Social Work, which enrolled Loyola's first female students.1914 年,学校设立市中心校区与社会学学院,后者是社会工作学院的前身,招收了洛约拉首批女学生。
- The business school was established in 1922, the Chicago College of Dental Surgery joined the university in 1923 and the nursing school opened in 1935, completing the professional portfolio of the interwar years.商学院于 1922 年设立,芝加哥牙科学院于 1923 年并入,护理学院于 1935 年开办,战间期的专业教育版图至此成形。
- The Water Tower Campus opened in 1949 along Michigan Avenue, giving the university a second downtown base near the Chicago Water Tower that survived the Great Fire of 1871.水塔校区于 1949 年在密歇根大道沿线启用,使学校在 1871 年大火中幸存的芝加哥水塔附近拥有了第二个市中心基地。
- Loyola Academy, a college preparatory high school, occupied Dumbach Hall on the Lake Shore Campus until it moved to Wilmette in 1957, freeing the building for university use.洛约拉中学这所大学预科高中曾占用湖滨校区的邓巴赫楼,直至 1957 年迁往威尔梅特,该楼才转供大学使用。
- In 1962 Loyola opened a campus in Rome near the site of the 1960 Summer Olympics, beginning what became the oldest American university programme in Italy.1962 年,洛约拉在 1960 年夏季奥运会场馆附近开设罗马校区,开启了后来成为意大利历史最悠久的美国大学项目。
- The university became fully coeducational only in 1966, four decades after the first women enrolled in the downtown sociology programme.该校直到 1966 年才实现全面男女同校,此时距首批女性进入市中心社会学项目已过去四十年。
- In 1969 Loyola established the School of Education and consolidated its medical programmes at the Loyola University Medical Center, a hospital and health care complex in the suburb of Maywood.1969 年,学校设立教育学院,并把医学项目集中到梅伍德郊区的洛约拉大学医学中心,那是一处医院与医疗综合体。
- The university legally separated from the Society of Jesus in 1970 and came under lay control governed by a board of trustees, while keeping its Jesuit mission and identity.1970 年,学校在法律上与耶稣会分离,改由董事会主导的世俗治理,同时保留耶稣会的使命与身份。
- Loyola purchased neighbouring Mundelein College in 1991, absorbing a Catholic women's college and extending the Lake Shore Campus northward along the lakefront.1991 年,洛约拉收购了毗邻的蒙德莱因学院,并入一所天主教女子学院,并使湖滨校区沿湖岸向北延伸。
- The late 1990s brought severe financial hardship and declining enrolment, a crisis that forced the university to rethink its finances, academic profile and campus plan.1990 年代末,学校遭遇严重的财政困难与注册人数下滑,这场危机迫使其重新思考财务、学术定位与校园规划。
- Michael J. Garanzini, a Jesuit, became president in 2001 and led major capital campaigns that raised the university's academic profile and rebuilt its campuses.耶稣会士迈克尔·加拉恩齐尼于 2001 年出任校长,主导了多轮重大筹资活动,提升了学校的学术地位并重建了校园。
- In 2005 the Loyola University Museum of Art opened on the Water Tower Campus, and the Rome campus was renamed in honour of its founder and director emeritus John P. Felice.2005 年,洛约拉大学艺术博物馆在水塔校区开馆,罗马校区则以创办人、荣休主任约翰·费利斯之名重新命名。
- In 2009 the Cuneo Foundation gave the university the Cuneo Mansion and Gardens in Vernon Hills, a 100 acre estate with an Italianate mansion and collections of art and furnishings, a gift valued at 50 million dollars.2009 年,库内奥基金会把位于弗农希尔斯的库内奥庄园与花园赠予学校,这片 100 英亩的产业拥有一座意大利风格宅邸及艺术与家具收藏,价值 5,000 万美元。
- In 2015 the university established Arrupe College, a two year college designed to give low income students access to a Loyola education with minimal debt.2015 年,学校创办阿鲁佩学院,这所两年制学院旨在让低收入学生以极低负债获得洛约拉的教育。
- On 23 May 2016 Loyola named Jo Ann Rooney its 24th president, the first woman to lead the university, and she served until September 2022, when Mark Reed succeeded her.2016 年 5 月 23 日,洛约拉任命乔安·鲁尼为第 24 任校长,她是该校首位女性校长,任职至 2022 年 9 月,由马克·里德接任。
- In 2025 the university announced that it would cease operations at the Cuneo estate at the end of that year and sell the site, concentrating its suburban activity at Woodstock.2025 年,学校宣布将于当年年底停止库内奥庄园的运营并出售该地块,把郊区活动集中于伍德斯托克校区。
Academics
- Loyola comprises 13 colleges and schools, among them the College of Arts and Sciences, the Quinlan School of Business, the School of Communication, the School of Education and the Graduate School.洛约拉由 13 个学院组成,包括文理学院、昆兰商学院、传播学院、教育学院与研究生院。
- The professional schools are the School of Law, the Stritch School of Medicine, the Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing, the School of Social Work and the Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health.专业学院包括法学院、斯特里奇医学院、玛塞拉·尼霍夫护理学院、社会工作学院以及帕金森健康科学与公共卫生学院。
- The remaining units are Arrupe College, the School of Continuing and Professional Studies and the School of Environmental Sustainability, giving the university a broad Catholic liberal arts and professional mix.其余单位包括阿鲁佩学院、继续与专业研究学院以及环境可持续性学院,构成这所天主教大学文理与专业并重的学科组合。
- Loyola offers more than 80 undergraduate programmes and about 140 graduate and professional programmes, and enrols roughly 17,000 students across its Chicago campuses and Rome.洛约拉开设 80 余个本科项目与约 140 个研究生及专业项目,在芝加哥各校区与罗马校区共有约 17,000 名学生。
- It is classified as an R1 doctoral university with very high research spending and doctorate production, the Carnegie classification reserved for the most research intensive American universities.该校被卡内基分类列为 R1 级博士大学,即科研支出与博士培养规模极高的一类,这一类别只授予研究最密集的美国大学。
- The Stritch School of Medicine trains physicians on the Health Sciences Campus in Maywood and works with the Loyola University Medical Center, which includes Ronald McDonald Children's Hospital and the Cardinal Bernardin Cancer Center.斯特里奇医学院在梅伍德健康科学校区培养医生,并与洛约拉大学医学中心合作,该中心下设麦当劳儿童医院与贝尔纳丁枢机癌症中心。
- The Marcella Niehoff School of Nursing and the Parkinson School of Health Sciences and Public Health extend Loyola's clinical teaching into nursing, public health, medical laboratory science and related fields.玛塞拉·尼霍夫护理学院与帕金森健康科学与公共卫生学院把洛约拉的临床教学扩展到护理、公共卫生、医学检验及相关领域。
- The School of Law, founded in 1908, teaches in the Corboy Law Center on the Water Tower Campus and runs clinics in immigration, health law and civil litigation.法学院创办于 1908 年,在水塔校区的科布伊法律中心授课,并开设移民、卫生法与民事诉讼等法律诊所。
- The Quinlan School of Business, founded in 1922, was renamed in 2012 after alumnus Michael R. Quinlan donated 40 million dollars, then the largest gift in the university's history.昆兰商学院创办于 1922 年,2012 年因校友迈克尔·昆兰捐赠 4,000 万美元而更名,这是当时该校历史上最大的单笔捐赠。
- Arrupe College, opened in 2015, awards associate degrees in two years and is designed so that graduates can transfer to a four year Loyola programme.阿鲁佩学院于 2015 年开办,两年制授予副学士学位,其设计使毕业生能够升入洛约拉四年制项目继续深造。
- The Department of Theology teaches systematic theology, ethics and biblical studies, and until 2025 Loyola hosted one of the country's three Jesuit First Studies programmes, the others being at Fordham and Saint Louis University.神学系教授系统神学、伦理学与圣经研究;截至 2025 年,洛约拉还承办全美三处耶稣会「初步研究」项目之一,另两处设在福德汉姆大学与圣路易斯大学。
- Until 2019 the university also hosted Saint Joseph College Seminary, which trained candidates for the diocesan priesthood of the Archdiocese of Chicago.2019 年之前,该校还承办圣若瑟修院,为芝加哥总教区培养教区司铎候选人。
- Undergraduate tuition for new full time students in 2025-2026 was 56,060 dollars a year, before room, board, fees and the Chicago Transit Authority student pass.2025-2026 学年,新生全日制本科生的学费为每年 56,060 美元,不含食宿、杂费与芝加哥交通局的学生通票。
- U.S. News ranked Loyola 121st among national universities in its 2027 college rankings, and Forbes placed it 258th overall, 140th among private colleges and 48th in the Midwest in its 2027 report.U.S. News 在 2027 年全美大学排名中把洛约拉列为国立大学第 121 位;福布斯 2027 年榜单则将其列为总榜第 258 位、私立院校第 140 位、中西部第 48 位。
- The E. M. Cudahy Memorial Library holds more than 900,000 volumes and 3,600 periodical subscriptions, and its 2008 Information Commons added a glass walled study space overlooking Lake Michigan.E·M·库达希纪念图书馆藏书逾 90 万册、期刊 3,600 种,2008 年增建的信息共享空间以玻璃幕墙俯瞰密歇根湖,成为自习场所。
- A second library, the Lewis Library, serves the Water Tower Campus schools in the Loop, giving law, business and communication students a downtown collection and study space.第二座图书馆刘易斯图书馆服务于卢普区水塔校区的各学院,为法律、商学与传播学学生提供市中心的馆藏与自习空间。
- The Institute of Environmental Sustainability combines classrooms, a residence hall, a greenhouse and the largest geothermal energy facility in Chicago, and university energy use has fallen 33 per cent since 1998.环境可持续性研究所集教室、宿舍、温室与芝加哥最大的地热能源设施于一体,自 1998 年以来该校能耗已下降 33%。
Campus
- Loyola operates five campuses across the Chicago metropolitan area, at Lake Shore, Water Tower, Maywood, Woodstock and Vernon Hills, plus a permanent campus in Rome.洛约拉在芝加哥大都会区运营五个校区,即湖滨、水塔、梅伍德、伍德斯托克与弗农希尔斯校区,另在罗马设有永久校区。
- The flagship Lake Shore Campus, founded in 1912, occupies more than 40 buildings on the Lake Michigan shore in the Rogers Park and Edgewater neighbourhoods, about seven and a half miles north of the Loop.旗舰湖滨校区创办于 1912 年,在罗杰斯公园与埃奇沃特社区的密歇根湖岸拥有 40 多座建筑,距卢普区约七英里半。
- The Madonna Della Strada Chapel, an Art Deco church completed in 1939, is the centre of religious life, while the 200 foot Mundelein Center of 1930, an Art Deco skyscraper, is a National Historic Landmark.圣母德拉斯特拉达教堂是一座 1939 年落成的装饰艺术风格教堂,为宗教生活中心;1930 年建成、高 200 英尺的蒙德莱因中心同属装饰艺术摩天楼,已被列为国家历史地标。
- The Joseph J. Gentile Arena seats 5,500 for basketball, volleyball and campus events, and the Damen Student Center holds the Halas Recreation Center, a cinema and one of three dining halls.约瑟夫·真蒂莱体育馆可容纳 5,500 人,用于篮球、排球与校园活动;达门学生中心内设哈拉斯康乐中心、电影院与三处食堂之一。
- The Water Tower Campus, opened in 1949 on the Magnificent Mile, includes the Corboy Law Center, Lewis Towers of 1945 and the LEED certified Schreiber Center of 2015, and stands beside Holy Name Cathedral.水塔校区于 1949 年在壮丽一英里启用,包含科布伊法律中心、1945 年的刘易斯大厦与 2015 年落成的 LEED 认证施赖伯中心,紧邻圣名主教座堂。
- The Health Sciences Campus in Maywood, founded in 1969 about eleven miles west of the Loop, houses the medical and nursing schools, while the hospital itself was sold to Trinity Health in 2011.梅伍德健康科学校区创办于 1969 年,位于卢普区以西约 11 英里,容纳医学院与护理学院;医院本体已于 2011 年出售给三一健康。
- The John Felice Rome Center moved in 1978 to Monte Mario, about two miles northwest of Vatican City, and remains the oldest American university programme in Italy.约翰·费利斯罗马中心于 1978 年迁至梵蒂冈城西北约两英里的蒙泰马里奥,至今仍是意大利历史最悠久的美国大学项目。
- The Retreat and Ecology Campus in Woodstock, opened in 2010 on 20 acres of ponds, streams, woods and prairie, and the Cuneo Mansion and Gardens in Vernon Hills, a 100 acre estate donated in 2009, extend the university's reach into the suburbs.伍德斯托克静修与生态校区于 2010 年启用,拥有 20 英亩池塘、溪流、林地与草原;2009 年获赠的弗农希尔斯库内奥庄园与花园占地 100 英亩,把学校的影响延伸至郊区。
Reputation
- In the QS World University Rankings 2027 Loyola University Chicago is placed in the 1201-1400 band, a position shaped by its teaching intensive profile and its relatively modest research output per faculty member.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中,芝加哥洛约拉大学位于 1201-1400 区间,这一位次与其教学密集型定位及人均科研产出相对有限有关。
- The university did not enter the Times Higher Education World University Rankings 2027, and U.S. News placed it 949th in its 2026-2027 global table.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名,U.S. News 的 2026-2027 年度全球榜单则将其列为第 949 位。
- In the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities it appears in the 901-1000 band, and OpenAlex records 52,005 works and 3,165,234 citations for the university.在 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名中,该校位于 901-1000 区间;OpenAlex 记录其论文 52,005 篇、被引 3,165,234 次。
- By enrolment it is the fourth largest Catholic university in the United States, a scale that sustains 13 schools and a medical centre on a largely tuition funded budget.按注册人数计,该校是美国第四大天主教大学,这一规模支撑着 13 个学院与一个医学中心,其预算主要依靠学费。
- Loyola won the 1963 NCAA men's basketball championship and remains the only Division I school in Illinois to have won a national title in the sport.洛约拉于 1963 年赢得美国大学体育协会男子篮球全国冠军,至今仍是伊利诺伊州唯一在该项目上夺冠的甲级学校。
- The Ramblers won back to back NCAA men's volleyball championships in 2014 and 2015, giving the university a second national title tradition in a non revenue sport.漫步者队于 2014 与 2015 年连续夺得美国大学体育协会男子排球冠军,使学校在非营收项目上拥有了第二个全国冠军传统。
- In 2018 the men's basketball team reached the Final Four as an 11 seed after four upset wins, and finished the tournament with the highest all time win percentage of any team that has competed in it.2018 年,男子篮球队以 11 号种子身份连胜四场闯入四强,并以参赛球队中最高的历史胜率结束该届赛事。
- The Carnegie R1 classification reflects very high research spending and doctorate production, supported by the medical centre, the law school and federally funded health research.卡内基 R1 分类反映了极高的科研支出与博士培养规模,其支撑来自医学中心、法学院以及联邦资助的卫生研究。
- Two gifts defined its recent reputation building, the 50 million dollar Cuneo estate in 2009 and the 40 million dollar Quinlan donation to the business school in 2012.两笔捐赠塑造了该校近年的声誉建设:2009 年价值 5,000 万美元的库内奥庄园,以及 2012 年对商学院的 4,000 万美元捐赠。
Student life
- Loyola's Jesuit identity, expressed in the motto of Saint Ignatius and in the phrase women and men for others, shapes its service learning, retreats and social justice programming.洛约拉的耶稣会身份体现于圣依纳爵的格言与「为他人服务的男女」一语,并塑造其服务学习、静修与社会公义项目。
- The LU Wolf mascot derives from the coat of arms of Saint Ignatius of Loyola, which shows two wolves standing over a kettle and refers to the generosity of the Loyola family in Azpeitia, Spain.校队吉祥物「LU 狼」源自圣依纳爵·罗耀拉的家族纹章,纹章上两只狼立于锅旁,象征西班牙阿斯佩蒂亚洛约拉家族的慷慨。
- The nickname Ramblers was first applied to the football team in 1926 because it travelled widely across the United States, and it now names all of Loyola's varsity teams.「漫步者」这一绰号最早于 1926 年用于其橄榄球队,因球队频繁奔走于全美各地,如今它成为洛约拉所有校队之名。
- Most residence halls surround the Lake Shore Campus in Rogers Park and Edgewater, and many are named after other Jesuit colleges and universities as a mark of the network to which Loyola belongs.多数宿舍围绕罗杰斯公园与埃奇沃特的湖滨校区分布,许多宿舍以其他耶稣会高校命名,以标示洛约拉所属的院校网络。
- Greek life includes social fraternities and sororities, professional coeducational fraternities and cultural interest organisations, all concentrated on the Lake Shore Campus.希腊式社团包括社交型兄弟会与姐妹会、专业型男女混合兄弟会以及文化兴趣组织,均集中于湖滨校区。
- The university's radio station began in the 1960s as WLUC-AM, a low power carrier current station broadcasting to campus buildings and Rogers Park, and was replaced by the FM station WLUW in the 1970s.该校电台始于 1960 年代的 WLUC-AM,这是一家向校园建筑与罗杰斯公园播出的低功率载波电台,1970 年代由调频台 WLUW 取代。
- Loyola fields 11 varsity teams, mostly in NCAA Division I, competing in basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, track and volleyball as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.洛约拉拥有 11 支校队,多数参加美国大学体育协会甲级赛事,作为大西洋十联盟成员参加篮球、越野、高尔夫、足球、垒球、田径与排球等项目。
- Chicago itself is part of student life, with the Red Line connecting Rogers Park to the Loop, lakefront parks beside the campus and a student transit pass covering city buses and trains.芝加哥本身就是学生生活的一部分:红线地铁连接罗杰斯公园与卢普区,校园旁是湖滨公园,学生通票可乘坐全市公交与地铁。
Notable people
- Arnold Damen, the Jesuit priest who founded St. Ignatius College in 1870, also built parishes and schools across Chicago and gave the university its original downtown site.阿诺德·达门是 1870 年创办圣依纳爵学院的耶稣会神父,他还在芝加哥各地兴建堂区与学校,并为大学提供了最初的市中心校址。
- Jo Ann Rooney, the 24th president from 2016 to 2022, was the first woman to lead Loyola, and Mark Reed succeeded her in September 2022.乔安·鲁尼于 2016 至 2022 年任第 24 任校长,是洛约拉首位女性校长,马克·里德于 2022 年 9 月接任。
- Michael J. Garanzini, president from 2001, led the capital campaigns that restored the university's finances and raised its academic profile after the crisis of the late 1990s.迈克尔·加拉恩齐尼自 2001 年起担任校长,主导筹资活动,在 1990 年代末危机之后恢复了学校财务并提升了学术地位。
- William M. Daley, a Loyola graduate, served as White House Chief of Staff under President Obama and as United States Secretary of Commerce under President Clinton.威廉·戴利毕业于洛约拉,曾在奥巴马总统任内担任白宫幕僚长,并在克林顿总统任内担任美国商务部长。
- Michael Madigan, the longest serving Speaker of the Illinois House of Representatives, and his daughter Lisa Madigan, Illinois Attorney General, both hold Loyola degrees.迈克尔·马迪根是伊利诺伊州众议院任职最长的议长,其女莉萨·马迪根曾任伊利诺伊州总检察长,两人都拥有洛约拉学位。
- Bob Newhart, the comedian and actor who won Emmy, Grammy and Peabody awards for The Bob Newhart Show and Newhart, studied at Loyola before his career in broadcasting.喜剧演员鲍勃·纽哈特凭《鲍勃·纽哈特秀》与《纽哈特》获得艾美奖、格莱美奖与皮博迪奖,他在进入广播业前曾就读于洛约拉。
- Marsha M. Linehan, who developed dialectical behaviour therapy, took her undergraduate degree at Loyola before becoming a professor at the University of Washington.玛莎·莱恩汉创立了辩证行为疗法,她在洛约拉取得本科学位,后成为华盛顿大学教授。
- Michael R. Quinlan, chairman of McDonald's, gave 40 million dollars to his alma mater in 2012, and the business school has carried his name since then.麦当劳公司董事长迈克尔·昆兰于 2012 年向母校捐赠 4,000 万美元,商学院自此以他的名字命名。
- Lori Greiner, an inventor and investor known from the television programme Shark Tank, and Shams Charania, an ESPN basketball reporter, represent the university's recent media and business alumni.因电视节目《创智赢家》闻名的发明家与投资人洛里·格雷纳,以及 ESPN 篮球记者沙姆斯·查拉尼亚,代表该校近年的媒体与商界校友。
- Awa III, the 122nd Catholicos-Patriarch of the Assyrian Church of the East, and George Halas Jr., former president of the Chicago Bears, illustrate the range of Loyola's alumni beyond Illinois.东方亚述教会第 122 任宗主教阿瓦三世与芝加哥熊队前总裁乔治·哈拉斯二世,展示了洛约拉校友超越伊利诺伊州的影响力。
- Sister Mary Clemente Davlin, a medievalist and advocate for campus diversity, and Ian Brennan, co-creator of the television series Glee, illustrate the university's reach into scholarship and entertainment.中世纪学者、校园多元化的倡导者玛丽·克莱门特·达夫林修女,以及电视剧《欢乐合唱团》联合创作者伊恩·布伦南,展示了该校在学术与娱乐领域的影响力。