About Us

Loyola College, a Catholic Minority Institution, was founded by the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) in 1925, with the primary objective of providing University Education in a Christian atmosphere for deserving students irrespective of caste and creed. It started functioning in July 1925 with just 75 students on the rolls in three undergraduate courses of Mathematics, History and Economics.

Loyola College, though affiliated to University of Madras, became autonomous in July 1978. It is autonomous, in the sense that it is empowered to frame its own course of studies and adopt innovative methods of teaching and evaluation. The University degrees will be conferred on the students passing the examinations conducted by the college. UGC conferred the status of “College with potential for Excellence” on Loyola College in 2004 and confirmed the same in 2010. NAAC's re-accreditation score in 2012 (Third Cycle) is 3.70 out of 4.00 CGPA.

UGC has elevated Loyola College to the status of “College of Excellence” for the period from April 1, 2014 till March 31, 2019. Today, there are 19 P.G courses and 19 U.G courses (Arts, Sciences and Commerce) and 12 special Institutes offering various programs to 12,107 students. 11 departments are offering M.Phil. programs and 12 departments offer Ph.D. programs. At present, 117 teaching staff members out of 286 hold doctoral degree. There are 182 non-teaching staff in service.

Icam group’s action is an extension of the long experience of the Institut Catholique d'Arts et Métiers, opened in Lille in 1898. The founders of Icam in Lille were industrialists who asked the Compagnie de Jésus (Company of Jesus) to establish and run a teaching project for future engineers. Ever since, the Icam group has been striving to maintain this dual Industrial and Evangelical entrenchment.

Respecting personal convictions and open to all, we make our institutional teaching choices with reference to Jesus Christ. He teaches us to look at the world with confidence, even while mobilizing our desire to build a world that is more just and more fraternal. The story of his life teaches us that everybody is called for a freedom that is creative, responsible and inclusive.
From all those who enter Icam, be they associates, students, apprentices, interns, we expect first and foremost this fundamental relief in human freedom, as well as a high regard for individual responsibility in the common good.

ENCOURAGING THE GROWTH OF FREEDOM
Icam’s mission is to educate capable men and women, active in the socio-economic world. True to Ignatian teaching, we lay emphasis on the working on oneself required when learning a trade: studies involve the entire being, they are the important part of a human education. A capable associate is a man or a woman of experience: even as a beginner, his/her behavior and choices were based on a human experience. He faced the real world and he learned to capitalize on it. He let himself be influenced by encounters, by facing problems, by seeking solutions. He experienced the hazards and the difficulties of shared work, as well as the daily commitment to complete his projects. In such a personal commitment is personal freedom built. Icam particularly educates engineers in the Arts et Métiers (Arts and Crafts) tradition. Several features characterize this tradition, particularly its versatility, a strong investment in industrial sciences, care taken to combine theory and experiment bases, and also attention to the entire lot of methods and tools that make it possible to understand the company and its environment.