Your Loyola degree is built on the University Core Curriculum. With your credits from a community college or university, you’re already on your way. This page will show you how it all fits together.

Your Path to Graduation

120 credit hours are required in these areas to earn a bachelor's degree.

Major Requirements

• Prerequisite courses
• Program Core courses
• Program electives

School/College Requirements

• Language requirements. Majors in arts, sciences, communications, environmental studies, and international business require the completion of non-English language courses up to the 120 level or transfer credit.
• Writing intensive courses
• Other required courses

Other

You may pursue a minor or other coursework. Some students need elective classes to reach the 120 credit hours required to earn a bachelor’s degree. An optional minor concentration and/or other coursework (i.e. pre-health requirements) can increase requirements by a semester or more.

Engaged Learning Requirement

This additional requirement is 3 credit hours and may be fulfilled by completing one of the following:

• Internship
• Service learning
• Research
• Fieldwork
• Public performance

University Core

The Core consists of 48 credits, with 15 of them devoted to mission-related knowledge. It is satisfied by the Associate of Arts (AA) or Sciences (AS) or Illinois Articulation Initiative General Education Core Curriculum (IAI GECC). 

A maximum of 64 credit hours can be transferred from a community college. Other associate’s degrees, including in Applied Sciences (AAS) and Associate of General Studies (AGS), may fulfill some core requirements.

WORK WITH LOYOLA’S TRANSFER STAFF	HOW DO MY CREDITS TRANSFER?
Email transfer@luc.edu or call  800.262.2373	Visit transferology.com or LUC.edu/TransferCredit

 

Fulfilling the Core Requirements

Transfer students without associate’s degrees can satisfy the University Core in two ways. Most will be guided by Loyola’s Core Curriculum, although students entering with a high number of credit hours may follow Illinois’ general education standard and take additional mission-related courses.

How many credits will you have when entering Loyola?

The university will evaluate your official transcript and send you a transfer credit report within two weeks of your acceptance.

Entering with 29 or fewer ⬇

Entering with 30 or more ⬇

You must follow Loyola Core Curriculum: Credits Knowledge Area # of Courses 3 Artistic Knowledge and Experience • 3 College Writing Seminar • 6 Historical Knowledge • • 6 Literary Knowledge and Experience • • 3 Quantitative Analysis • 6 Scientific Literacy • • 6 Societal and Cultural Knowledge • • 6 Philosophical Knowledge • • 6 Theological and Religious Studies • • 3 Ethics • 48   16

You have a choice: 1) Complete Illinois' General Education Core... Credits Knowledge Area # of Courses 9 Communication • • • 3 Mathematics • 7–8 Physical and Life Sciences • • 9 Humanities and Fine Arts • • • 9 Social and Behavioral Sciences • • • 37–41   12–13   ...and satisfy the university's mission requirement. PHIL 190 or THEO 190 plus one more course if you have previously passed zero or one mission-related course. PHIL 190 or THEO 190 if you have previously passed two or thee mission-related courses. None if you have previously passed four or more mission related courses. Note: Course credit in philosophy or theology will not double-dip or count as both a mission-related course and a general education core requirement in humanities.   or 2) Complete Loyola's Core Curriculum.   Details are on the left.