Loyola Academy (Autonomous)

Loyola Academy (LA), a spacious eco-friendly campus with excellent infrastructure is managed and administered by the Catholic clergy, popularly called Jesuits of the Andhra Jesuit Province, belonging to the Society of Jesus (founded by St. Ignatius of Loyola), an International Catholic Religious Order. Loyola Academy was founded by Rev Fr T. Balaiah SJ in 1976 in Alwal, Secunderabad, Telangana.

Initially began with Intermediate courses and an associate degree in Chemical technology. Subsequently other UG programmes (1978) and PG programmes (1993) were started.

Loyola Academy was granted Autonomous status in 1992 for Degree courses and PG courses in 2010. Appreciating the achievements and qualitative pursuit of Higher Education needs, UGC awarded Loyola Academy “A College with Potential for Excellence” (CPE) in 2008.

In addition to this, National Assessment and Accreditation Council (NAAC) was accredited the college in the year 2005 and reaccredited in the year 2011 with ‘A’ grade (3.50 out of 4.00 CGPA). National Institutional Ranking Framework (NIRF) ranked our College between 100-150 for both (2017-18 & 2018-19) successive years.

The Institution offers a unique, unrivalled array of Under Graduate and Post Graduate courses, imparting its students: potential skills which are highly relevant in today’s market and aims at moulding young minds into extraordinary individuals, who love what they do, thereby enabling young men and women to master new concepts and emerge as confident professionals in their chosen domains.

The vision of Jesuit Education is :

To impart higher education with integral formation which involves academic excellence, spiritual growth, social commitment and value based leadership. 

The Philosophy of the Vision of Loyola Academy: 

• Loyola Academy evolves a process of learning based on the exercises that begins with freeing people from bias and guides one to make life’s choices through discernment.

• Excellence in education is not just accumulation of knowledge by memory but deeper understanding that makes a student more wise than knowledgeable.

• Students are called to do their very best and to always strive for personal excellence in all aspects of life – intellectual, emotional, moral and physical. This personal excellence leads to concern for others. It is a love in service to the people on the periphery. 

• The Ignatian tradition guides a formative process in and through teaching, learning and governance that emphasizes the awareness of God’s active presence in human life in positive and life affirming ways.

•  Self, God/Nature and others altogether form a triadic locus in which the learner forms his/her personality that influences social change. 

• The Leader in Ignatius tradition offers a paradigm for making choices through discernment in a spiritual context, between several possibilities all of which are potentially good. The Philosophy of the Vision of Loyola Academy: 

It is to form “men and women for others” and mold our students as global citizens with competence, conscience and compassionate commitment. Special concern is shown towards the socially and economically underprivileged students. 

Philosophy of Mission: 

The education of men and women of competence, conscience, commitment, compassion and imbued with the desire to seek all things for the greater glory of God, representing the enduring aspiration of Loyola Academy. 

The 4 “C”s of the Mission Statement are : 

• Competence
• Conscience 
• Commitment
• Compassion 

Objectives

Since 46 years, Loyola Academy in conformity with its vision and mission has been implementing the following : 

• Students are called to do their best and to strive for personal excellence in all aspects of life intellectual, emotional, moral and physical, culminating in the Holistic formation of an individual. 

• Through an integrated formation of students in academics and spirituality, as well as value-based training and social commitment. 

• By creating an ambience for Ignatian Pedagogy Paradigm (IPP) 

• Directing them to foster healthy relationships 

• Celebrating with them diverse forms of faith and culture 

• The college empowers students especially those hailing from the rural background through academic and co-curricular nourishment. 

• The institute’s mission for offering quality education to socially and economically backward classes addresses social needs, access, equity, and quality. 

• The college ensures Higher Education Policy by introducing modern, professional, innovative skill-based courses, offering the benefit of education to all and facilitating economic empowerment of women. 

• The institute constantly encourages students to participate in activities like NCC, NSS, Clubs, Sports and Games, Curricular and Co-curricular programmes which provides an opportunity to achieve excellence. We fulfill this Vision-Mission:

• Through a more integrated formation in academics and spirituality, as well as through value-based training and social commitment.

•  By creating an ambience for Ignatian Pedagogy Paradigm, namely “Learning, Experience, Reflection and Action”

•  By implementing the following: Developing students’ knowledge as well as skills

• Guiding them to grow in wisdom and harmony

• Nurturing in them a deep sense of right value

•  Directing them in fostering healthy relationships

• Celebrating with them diverse forms of faiths and culture

• Helping them to develop as holistic persons and For and through all this, we seek God’s help.