Loyola Marymount University

Loyola Marymount University is a private Catholic university in Los Angeles, formed in 1973 from the merger of Jesuit Loyola University and Marymount College, with a lineage to St. Vincent’s College (1865). The main campus is in Westchester, on a bluff above the Pacific near Los Angeles International Airport; Loyola Law School is downtown. Jesuit and Religious of the Sacred Heart of Mary sponsorship is the defining structure.

Colleges include Bellarmine College of Liberal Arts, the College of Business Administration, the College of Communication and Fine Arts, the School of Film and Television, Seaver College of Science and Engineering, the School of Education, and Loyola Law School. Graduate students concentrate in law, education, business, film, and pastoral theology. The downtown law campus and the Westchester film and business facilities are the main graduate sites.

Enrollment is about 10,000, including roughly 3,000 graduate and law students, with a modest international share. Faculty number several hundred. Alumni include attorney Johnnie Cochran, a Loyola Law graduate, and a large group of Los Angeles film, media, and civic professionals.

The JD, MBA and specialized master’s degrees, education master’s and credential programs, and film graduate degrees are the main graduate awards. Law is a professional three-year curriculum; education and business mix evening coursework for working students. The calendar is a semester system. Westchester is a residential campus by the coast; law students live and intern in downtown Los Angeles.

In the Grad School Navigator directory, Loyola Marymount University lists 5 graduate programs across 5 subjects, all of them master's programs, with the widest choice in accounting, computer science and film & filmmaking.