Loyola College is a Jesuit institution in Chennai, India. The college admits undergraduates and post-graduates and offers degrees in the liberal arts, sciences and commerce. It is an autonomous institution affiliated with the University of Madras. Loyola College was founded in 1925 by a French Jesuit, Rev. Fr. Francis Bertram, with the support of a group of Jesuits who had had their grounding at the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, and the London School of Economics. The college offers courses at undergraduate and postgraduate levels. The Arts/Humanities stream includes English, Economics, History, Tamil and Sociology. Science courses include Physics, Chemistry, Botany, Zoology and Computer Science. Commerce is also a stream at Loyola. The college was ranked the number one college or institution for science degrees in India by India Today magazine in 2003, 2004, 2005, and 2006. In 2007 it achieved was ranked first in both Science and Humanities. The college follows a credit-based semester pattern. Undergraduate students have to pass all examinations and obtain at least 90 credits in three years to be eligible for award of a degree.