Loyola College has continued to remain for the past 10 years, in the list of Top 10 Colleges in India ranked by India Today.
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Source: India Today Magazine, May - July 2002 to 2011
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Loyola is popular for its courses in Economics, English literature, Visual Communication, Sociology and Medical Sociology. ”Apart from conventional teaching methods, students are involved in joint learning wherein they are given an opportunity to express themselves,” says T. Eugine, head of department, Economics, Loyola College. Curriculum is revised after every five years to conform to the changing needs of the industry. Three areas are given utmost prominence – outreach programmes, spiritual well-being and employability. |
Companies such as Google, Goldman Sachs and DE Shaw Group come for campus placements. “Our main aim to produce future leaders to meet the requirement of emerging economies,” says Eugine. The college also has a host of unconventional courses such as medical sociology and psychiatric social work.
Their foreign languages department is also quite popular. While for French language there are over 1,000 students, for German there are about 100 students. With several international exchange programmes, the focus is mainly on overall development of students.
The list makes one thing clear – all-round development is what makes a college and its students topper. |
The mutli-disciplinary Loyola College, Chennai, has been ranked No.3 this year. The college doesn't focus only on business and strategy but also overall development of leadership qualities among students. The college has two international exchange programmes and has signed international memorandum of understanding with 33 universities abroad. “The objective is not just for students to learn functional subjects of commerce, but also to engage in holistic development to be industry-ready,” says Francis Jose, head of commerce department, Loyola College, Chennai. “Apart from this, we are also working on infusing sciences in commerce so that if commerce students want to start a business in a scientific stream they can easily understand the needs and specifications,” says Jose. They have also launched the Loyola 2025 future plan in their centenary year. With continuous infrastructural development and revision of syllabus, no wonder students flock to the Loyola campus every year.
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For Loyola College, Chennai, it is an emphasis on original research that sets the college apart in its approach to science, Recently honoured with the Scientific Industrial Research Organisation award from the Government, Loyola holds the distinction of being one of the very few non – IIT institutes to be given the title. Principal B. Jeyaraj says the two–pronged aim of research at Loyola is achieving academic excellence while being socially responsible. “The entomology research centre, in collaboration with the Indian Council of Medical Research, is currently working on an all-encompassing drug that will act as a cure for acute tuberculosis. |
The methodology behind this research is to make the cure as affordable as possible, enabling even the poor sections of society to benefit from it,” he says. Jeyaraj claims that more students are now opting for a career in pure sciences, instead of MBA or engineering. “The diversity of the job market has allowed science graduates to pursue research as a career option, with chemical, computer and electronics companies picking up a large number of our students,” he adds. |
Source: “India's Best Colleges” – India Today (June 18, 2011)
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