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Welcome to the College of Social Sciences

Recognized for excellence

By choosing the College of Social Sciences, you’ll not only choose from a diverse group of programs such as Mass Communication, Nursing, and Pastoral Studies, and disciplines such as Counseling, Criminal Justice, Liberal StudiesPolitical Science, and Sociology.  You’ll also be choosing a college touted as a leader, singled out for excellence as one of the Great Schools for Communications Majors and Great Schools for Journalism Majors by the Princeton Review in 2008.

In addition, the College of Social Sciences is home to several centers and institutes that serve as important resources as Loyola teaches students to think critically and act justly: Center for Environmental Communication, Jesuit Social Research Institute, Shawn M. Donnelly Center for Nonprofit Communication, and the Twomey Center for Peace Through Justice.

Student Successes

Sociology Student Presents at National Conference

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Nathalie Delise has been invited to share her paper, "To Tip or Not to Tip: The Social Norm of Restaurant Tipping in the United States," at the National Conference on Undergraduate Research.

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Faculty Successes

Marcus Kondkar awarded a Marquette Faculty Fellowship

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Professor Kondkar was awarded a Marquette Faculty Fellowship for the Summer of 2009 for his research, “Intimate Partner Homicide: Exploring the Relationship between Race, Gender, Law and Violence.”

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Alumni Successes

State senator started his career at Loyola

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Edwin Murray, A'82, L'85, is the Louisiana state senator for District 4, which includes the Lakeview neighborhood in Orleans Parish.

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