Loyola offers the benefit of experience in the graduate classroom.  Courses are taught by accomplished faculty members, who add value by drawing on their professional backgrounds and specialties.  Faculty remain active and curent through consulting relationships, participation in professional organizations and, in some fields, continuing to work as practitioners.  Faculty also engage in applied research, addressing issues of current importance in the working world.

Loyola has a long-standing history in designing programs for the professional learner.  Curricular development, refinement and evaluation is accomplished in close consultation with professional associations and communities.  In addition, Loyola recognizes flexibility and convenience as among the essentials for professionals in graduate study.  Multiple locations, an array of scheduling options and classrooms designed for the adult student all provide important support for individuals engaged in advanced study.

The classroom in practitioner programs is a unique setting, a professional forum.  With a student body itself rich in experience and accomplishment, you can look forward to learning from colleague-to-colleague exchange as much as through lecture, study and research.  Students bring perspective, knowledge and skill to create a richer backdrop for analysis and debate, making the understanding of concepts and especially their application clearer and more robust.