page_title: Loyola University New Orleans
section_title: Broadway Campus
hierarchical_section_title: Loyola University New Orleans / Campus / Broadway Campus
caption_attribution_description: English: Greenville Hall, Loyola University New Orleans. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Built 1889.
context_page_description: Loyola University New Orleans is a private Jesuit university in New Orleans, Louisiana. Originally established as Loyola College in 1904, the institution was chartered as a university in 1912. It bears the name of the Jesuit founder, Saint Ignatius of Loyola. Loyola is one of 28 member institutions that make up the Association of Jesuit Colleges and Universities and, with its current enrollment of approximately 5000 students, is among the mid-sized Jesuit universities in the United States. Loyola University New Orleans is ranked as the tenth best institution among Southern regional universities offering masters and undergraduate degrees in the 2017 issue of the annual America's Best Colleges issue and guidebook published by U.S. News & World Report, and 197th among national universities in the 2020 report. The Princeton Review also features Loyola University New Orleans in the most recent editions of its annual book, The Best 371 Colleges. In the past, the school has been called Loyola of the South, Loyola New Orleans, Loyola University, New Orleans, and Loyola University of New Orleans.
context_section_description: The former campus of St. Mary's Dominican College, the 4-acre (16,000 m²) site was purchased by Loyola in 1984. Broadway Street forms its downtown border, and fronts St. Charles Avenue. The campus is located in the Greenville neighborhood, a former plantation and town annexed by New Orleans in the 19th Century. Greenville Hall, a Registered Historic Place built in 1889, forms the focus of the small campus, along with the College of Law building.
caption: Greenville Hall, built 1889, faces St. Charles Ave on the Broadway Campus
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