About Us
Starting with projects that require you to use your head, not repeat lessons from a textbook, Loyola's Department of Computer Science offers an education that builds skills and careers. These are just a few of the reasons our program is distinctive:
- A commitment to the Jesuit traditions of scholarship, lifelong learning, and service.
- Classes are taught by experienced faculty.
- Our campus is a short ride from downtown Chicago. We offer classes at Water Tower Campus and Lake Shore Campus.
- Excellent laboratory facilities, including Windows and Linux development labs, and a wireless interaction area.
- Our schedules can work around your life.
- We offer a wide base of study that will help prepare you for a long, fulfilling career in computer science.
- Our professors work in the business world, bringing real-world problems and solutions to the classroom.
- We use a systematic methodology that teaches you how to think, not what to think. This will prepare you for the challenging, ever-changing world of computer science.
- Computer science continues to be a lucrative field. According to the NACE Fall 2004 salary survey, computer science graduates start at $49,036 a year, up by 4.1 percent over the previous year. This makes computer science the third most lucrative college degree in terms of starting salaries. This positive outlook is expected to continue. See this article by CNN Money and this NACE press release for more details.
Prospective undergraduates can follow a more complete introduction here.