Since its founding by Jesuits in 1911, Loyola Marymount University has sought to instill a passion for education, faith, justice and social impact in students of diverse talents, interests and backgrounds. Today that mission is applied across sixty different majors within six colleges and schools: Liberal Arts, Science and Engineering, Communication and Fine Arts, Education, Film and Television, and Business Administration. LMU’s campus is located in the heart of Silicon Beach, the Westside region of Los Angeles that is home to over five hundred tech companies, including Facebook, Google, Yahoo!, Snap, and Hulu. LMU has long-standing strategic relationships and industry partnerships within this ecosystem, and it opened a new campus in Playa Vista in 2018 to better position the university for global imagination and impact.

LMU’s Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship, one of the oldest entrepreneurship schools in the country, boasts a faculty of seasoned entrepreneurs, many of whom run public companies, sit on the board of a company or have started their own business. “We believe you cannot teach students how to be entrepreneurs unless you have gone through the struggles of starting and running your own business,” says Darlene Fukuji, associate director of the Fred Kiesner Center for Entrepreneurship.

Undergraduate tuition at LMU costs $48,000 annually. LMU also offers a business incubator program every semester, which provides students with the resources they need to turn a business idea into a reality. “We give students a workspace and access to experts, alumni, entrepreneurs and investors to help them launch their business,” says Fukuji. “At any one time, we have at least a dozen businesses being incubated in our program.” LMU’s graduates have gone on to generate about $1 billion in revenues every year and have sold about $1 billion worth of businesses. This is one of the reasons LMU is ranked eleventh in the US in entrepreneurship, according to U.S. News and World Report.