Loyola University Maryland

Loyola University Maryland is a private institution that was founded in 1852. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 4,004, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 80 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Loyola University Maryland's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities (North), 3. Its tuition and fees are $44,255 (2014-15).

Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit university located in Baltimore. Students can get involved with any of the more than 170 clubs and organizations on campus, such as the Evergreen Players theater group or The Greyhound, Loyola's student newspaper. The school's recreation and fitness programs are housed in the state-of-the-art Fitness and Aquatics Center, which features a climbing wall, pool, sauna, hot tub and racquetball and squash courts, among other facilities. Loyola's varsity teams, known as the Greyhounds, compete at the NCAA Division I level. Only freshmen are required to live on campus, but about 80 percent of students choose to remain on campus all four years. Loyolapalooza, an annual springtime festival, is a popular tradition with activities, rides and performances.

Loyola organizes its academic programs into three schools: the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Education and Sellinger School of Business and Management. Undergraduates can choose from more than 30 majors and must complete the core curriculum. Loyola also offers graduate programs in each of its three schools. About 50 first-year students are admitted into the Honors Program each year, which provides a more challenging curriculum and a variety of benefits like free tickets to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra or a paid trip to New York. More than 60 percent of students study abroad through one of Loyola's sponsored programs or one of the accepted unaffiliated programs.

Rollins College

Rollins College is a private institution that was founded in 1885. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 1,890, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 80 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Rollins College's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities (South), 2. Its tuition and fees are $43,080 (2014-15).

Rollins College is located in Winter Park, Florida, a few minutes from downtown Orlando. There are more than 100 student clubs and organizations on campus, including a wakeboarding club and a ballroom dancing club. The Tars, Rollins' athletic teams, compete in the NCAA Division II Sunshine State Conference. The school even fields a varsity waterskiing team. Greek life on campus comprises about 10 fraternities and sororities. The majority of students live on campus in one of the residence halls or apartment complexes. Fox Day – a popular campus tradition – occurs on a randomly chosen day in the spring when the college president places a statue of the Rollins fox on Mills Lawn, indicating that all classes have been canceled for the day.

Undergraduates at Rollins can choose from about 30 majors, ranging from Latin American and Caribbean studies to computer science to theatre arts. In addition to its undergraduate programs, Rollins offers an MBA program through the Crummer Graduate School of Business. Other master's programs offered include teaching, human resources and liberal studies. The "Walk of Fame" at Rollins is lined with stones from the homes of legendary historical figures: Maya Angelou, Confucius and Martin Luther King Jr., to name a few.

Samford University

Samford University is a private institution that was founded in 1841. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 3,013, its setting is suburban, and the campus size is 318 acres. It utilizes a 4-1-4-based academic calendar. Samford University's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities (South), 3. Its tuition and fees are $27,324 (2014-15).

Samford University is a Christian institution located in Birmingham, Ala., in the central region of the state. Students at Samford can choose from more than 130 majors, minors, and concentrations, including master’s degree programs in the Brock School of Business, the Cumberland School of Law, and the Orlean Bullard Beeson School of Education and Professional Studies. Samford is the largest private university in Alabama, but its class sizes are small, and no courses are taught by graduate assistants.

Many students at Samford University participate in school traditions, such as the Spring Fling celebration with games and music on the quad, and the Miss Samford pageant, which is one of the preliminary competitions for the Miss Alabama and Miss America Pageants. Students can also get involved by exploring more than 125 campus clubs and playing for the Samford University Bulldogs varsity sports teams, which compete in the NCAA Division I Southern Conference. Notable Samford University alumni include actor Tony Hale, who starred in the television show Arrested Development.

Loyola University Maryland

Loyola University Maryland is a private institution that was founded in 1852. It has a total undergraduate enrollment of 4,004, its setting is urban, and the campus size is 80 acres. It utilizes a semester-based academic calendar. Loyola University Maryland's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges is Regional Universities (North), 3. Its tuition and fees are $44,255 (2014-15).

Loyola University Maryland is a Jesuit university located in Baltimore. Students can get involved with any of the more than 170 clubs and organizations on campus, such as the Evergreen Players theater group or The Greyhound, Loyola's student newspaper. The school's recreation and fitness programs are housed in the state-of-the-art Fitness and Aquatics Center, which features a climbing wall, pool, sauna, hot tub and racquetball and squash courts, among other facilities. Loyola's varsity teams, known as the Greyhounds, compete at the NCAA Division I level. Only freshmen are required to live on campus, but about 80 percent of students choose to remain on campus all four years. Loyolapalooza, an annual springtime festival, is a popular tradition with activities, rides and performances.

Loyola organizes its academic programs into three schools: the College of Arts and Sciences, School of Education and Sellinger School of Business and Management. Undergraduates can choose from more than 30 majors and must complete the core curriculum. Loyola also offers graduate programs in each of its three schools. About 50 first-year students are admitted into the Honors Program each year, which provides a more challenging curriculum and a variety of benefits like free tickets to the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra or a paid trip to New York. More than 60 percent of students study abroad through one of Loyola's sponsored programs or one of the accepted unaffiliated programs.