As an autonomous college, Andhra Loyola College has adopted the Choice-Based Credit System for degree courses, and the semester system. Instructional methods include lectures and classroom instruction, IT-based sessions, guest lectures, seminars, symposia, and field study. Loyola College is affiliated with Krishna University. The competitive admissions policy uses the KRU-CET for M.Sc. courses and I-CET for MBA and MCA courses. The National Assessment and Accreditation Council in its 2008 review and report on the college mentioned its institutional strengths as:
autonomous status, identified as potential Centre for Excellence by UGC
dedicated management, committed faculty and active and disciplined students
good infrastructure for teaching, research, extra-curricular and extension activities
placement training facility through government-sponsored JKC
The chief weakness noted was limited research activity in many departments. This has since been addressed. The college now has 16 research guides from Telugu, Hindi, English, Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, History, Botany, and Political Science departments who are recognized as research supervisors by Acharya Nagarjuna University and other universities such as JNTU. Research scholars may enrol through the respective universities and pursue their research at Loyola College.
Campus
The college is Situated on 98 acres of Land. There are 52 classrooms and 22 labs. Facilities include a Language Lab, Visual Communication Studio, two libraries, 302 computers with LAN connectivity, ICT Lab, E-learning centre, seminar halls, guest rooms, four boys' hostels, a girls' hostel, an auditorium with capacity for 2500, and Fine Arts Centre Kaladarshini. Loyola Computer Centre has about 120 systems connected through LAN, and 25 licensed software packages available. Sports facilities include two concrete basketball courts, three indoor shuttle badminton courts, a table tennis court and separate football stadium, multi-gym, cricket field, and tennis courts. The college has two main blocks – North Block and South Block – each with 60,000 sq. ft. of floor space. The undergraduate classrooms and all science laboratories are located in these clocks. There are a separate Intermediate Block and Postgraduate Block, and a Computer Centre building. Andhra Loyola Engineering College was inaugurated at Loyola Campus in 2008 by Dr. Y.S. Rajeshekhar Reddy, then Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh.
Library
The two libraries contain 83,000 volumes and subscriptions to 110 Indian journals and 12 foreign journals; it also has 20 computers with internet facility and three for library work. Interlibrary loan facilities through DELNET and American Library are also available.
