Reviews of professor Laura Loyola

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
She was very nice and easy to understand. The knowledge itself wasn't hard, but the workload was insane. Constantly reading articles, working on projects and papers with deadlines always overlapping. She is also the SLOWEST grader in the world. Takes FOREVER to get grades/feedback on assignments and exams. Otherwise, a good professor!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Ignore bad reviews. Loyola is a caring and accessible professor who wants her students to do well. She made room for everyone's questions and always answered them thoroughly. Midterms are "hard" but if you study they're really not bad. She also offers extra credit. The 1st 4 labs for the class take several hours, but the rest are fine. Great class!

Rating: 5.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
I love Dr. Loyola. She is one of the kindest professors at USC and really cares about seeing her students succeed. The exams are hard but the other assignments are graded quite generously, and she offers extra credit to offset the difficulty. Very few people got 90s on midterms, but they aren't much of your grade. Be weary of bad reviews, she's gr8

Rating: 4.0/5, difficulty: 4.0/5
Loyola would always make sure you made space for questions from the class! I learned a lot about the fundamentals of GIS from her, and I was getting particularly stressed out at the end of the semester, she helped solidify a lot of the class concepts for me. GIS labs for this class though were a beast so I'd say consider that before you take it.

Rating: 3.0/5, difficulty: 3.0/5
Decent professor. Her lectures don't really help much for the tests. Would highly recommend to just watch her lecture recordings on 1.5 speed. Definitely want to make sure you read the textbook otherwise you won't do well on the homework. Expect the homeworks to take at least 5-6 hours each if you want to do well on them. Overall doable class.