Loyola College, Chennai

Loyola College
Coat of arms
Motto Luceat Lux Vestra
Motto in English
 Let your Light Shine
Type Autonomous
Established 1925 (1925)
Founder Rev Fr Francis Bertram
Affiliation University of Madras
Religious affiliation
 Jesuit (Roman Catholic)
Location Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India
Nickname Loyolite
Website loyolacollege.edu

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.[1]

It admits undergraduates and post-graduates and confers degrees in the commerce, sciences and liberal arts. The college is on a 99-acre (400,000 m2) 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.

History

The 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 Jesuit Order), a worldwide organization of religious men numbering about 19,000. Nearly 4,000 are working in the 18 provinces of India.[2]

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.[3]

Loyola Church

Loyola College was founded in 1925 by, along with other European Jesuits, the French Jesuit priest, Rev Fr Francis Bertram (originally a.k.a. Père François Bertrand; 1870/1871–1936),[4] educated at the universities of Oxford, Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. The Department of Economics was founded by Rev Fr Basenach from the London School of Economics.[5]

Academics

Main building

The college offers courses at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The arts/humanities stream includes English, economics, commerce, history, Tamil and sociology. Science courses include physics, chemistry, botany, zoology and computer science. The college follows a credit-based, semester pattern. Undergraduate students must pass all examinations and obtain at least 120 credits in three years to be eligible for a degree. All students must also earn non-academic credits from extra-curricular and social service options. The Department of Outreach facilitates social work in the college. It is a degree requirement that every student irrespective of department complete the outreach program in second year, intended to form more complete human persons. The program takes students to slums and backward areas in and around Chennai to acquaint them with the sufferings of the people and to serve in small ways to better the living conditions. The program awards 3 credits.

Loyola College is the only college in the state capital Chennai with "A+" accreditation from NAAC. India Today magazine in 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, and 2009 ranked Loyola number one in India for science degrees,[6] and in 2007 in both science and humanities.[7] The Department of Scientific and Industrial Research has recognised Loyola College as a Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation, the highest research honour for an Arts and Science College.[8]

The college has been conferred a "College with Potential For Excellence" status by the University Grants Commission. It was given a ₹10 million grant (1 Crore) in 2006 by the UGC for continual improvement of facilities. The UGC has further certified it as a "College of Excellence" in the year 2014. The certification, for a period of five years until 2019, comes with a grant of Rs. 2 crore for the college to upgrade its facilities.[9]

Institute for Excellence

Culturals

Loyola College was a pioneer among colleges in South India in hosting cultural fests, and stands out among men's college in Chennai for fostering well-rounded development. Women were first admitted at the turn of the millennium, and they too are encouraged to participate in cultural activities. The College has been commended for its blend of cultures and for requiring all students to have weekly contact with the poor.[11] Its cultural sensitivity also extends worldwide.[12]

The large, Down Sterling inter-college carnival was terminated by college authorities in 1992 when things got out of hand. This historic carnival is memorialized in the friendship song "MUSTHAFA MUSTHAFA" from the movie Kadhal Desam (1996).

To somewhat fill the void the Loyola Student's Union organizes the inter-collegiate cultural event Ovations each September. The college also hosts an annual inter-collegiate dance competition called "Ignite" each February, where its dance team, Loyola Dream Team, excels; also featured are Western/acoustic music bands, and variety and mime teams.

Notable alumni

Politics and administrative service

Academics and business

Sport

Religion

Journalism

  • Sanjay Pinto, Resident Editor, NDTV 24 X 7
  • N.Ram, former editor in chief of The Hindu

Theatre and cinema

Chess

Beauty Pageant

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Top 5". Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  2. ↑ "Jesuits". Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  3. ↑ "Activities". Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  4. ↑ "The father of Loyola". 24 June 2013 – via www.thehindu.com.
  5. ↑ "Bertram". Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  6. ↑ "Science".
  7. ↑ "Humanities". Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  8. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 "President". Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  9. 1 2 "Excellence". Retrieved 5 April 2017.
  10. ↑ "LIVE-Mrcollegehub.com". Archived from the original on 2015-10-28. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  11. ↑ Hindustan Times on cultural education, hindustantimes.com; accessed 28 November 2016.
  12. ↑ Russian Embassy seminar on falsification of history, chennai.mid.ru; accessed 28 November 2016.
  13. ↑ "Supreme Court of India - CJI & Sitting Judges". supremecourtofindia.nic.in. Archived from the original on 20 November 2016. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  14. ↑ "Karti's family of banking pioneers". The Telegraph. Retrieved 2018-03-10.
  15. ↑ "The rise and fall of Dayanidhi Maran". @businessline. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  16. ↑ "Raman, new Advocate-General". The Hindu. 30 July 2009. ISSN 0971-751X. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  17. ↑ "MPT". Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  18. ↑ CVC. Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  19. ↑ SiliconIndia. "India's Inspiration: Meet Beno Zephine, First 100 Pct Blind IFS Officer". siliconindia. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  20. ↑ "An eye on success". @businessline. Retrieved 10 March 2018.
  21. ↑ "GCMMF". Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  22. ↑ "M. S. Narasimhan: Trieste". Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  23. ↑ "Mastek". 18 April 2014. Retrieved 14 May 2018.
  24. ↑ "Fellowship: Indian Academy of Sciences". ias.ac.in. Retrieved 20 November 2016.
  25. ↑ User, Super. "Jaithirth (Jerry) Rao - NASSCOM Foundation". nasscomfoundation.org. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  26. ↑ "CMI". CMI. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  27. ↑ "Google". Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  28. ↑ "IBM". Retrieved 6 May 2017.
  29. ↑ "The cerebral boy next door". www.frontline.in. Retrieved 14 March 2018.
  • Official website
  • "Top ten colleges". India Today.
  • St Xavier's College, Jaipur

Coordinates: 13°03′43″N 80°14′02″E / 13.062°N 80.234°E / 13.062; 80.234

This article is issued from Wikipedia. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.