Loyola College Chennai

Loyola College, Chennai is an autonomous Jesuit college of the University of Madras. It consistently ranks among the top five institutions in India for degree programmes in commerce, arts, natural sciences and social sciences.It admits undergraduates and post-graduates and confers degrees in the commerce, sciences and liberal arts. The college is on a 99acre campus in the heart of Chennai, in Nungambakkam. Its tree-lined pathways, academic buildings, steepled Gothic church which dates back to 1930, and separate fields for each sport, make it a landmark in the southern metropolis.HistoryThe name Loyola comes from the ancestral castle where Íñigo López de Loyola was born in 1491, the last of a large Basque family. He along with St. Francis Xavier and companions founded the Society of Jesus (the Jessuit Order), a worldwide organization of religious men numbering about 19,000. Nearly 4,000 are working in the 18 provinces of India. In Tamil Nadu there are 480 Jesuits working in schools, colleges, youth services, social work centres, parishes, mission outreach programmes, and in other forms of service and church ministry.Loyola College was founded in 1925 by French Jesuit Fr. Francis Bertram, along with European Jesuits educated at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. The Department of Economics was founded by Fr. Basenach from the London School of Economics.