Loyola College of Education is affiliated to Tamilnadu Teachers Education University, Chennai. This is a minority institution, primarily meant for the education of Catholic graduates and post graduates. Admission, however, is open to others without distinction of caste or creed. Our aim is to impart sound integral formation and training (Physical, Intellectual, Emotional, Social, Moral and Spiritual) to the would-be teachers, who, in turn, would form and mould the future citizens of India in different spheres of life.

• To inculcate proper value systems such as brotherhood, social justice, dignity of labour and patriotism in student-teachers.
• To help them excel in communication and soft skills.
• To provide opportunities to enhance their self-concept and gain self-confidence.
• To form as inspiring and effective leaders.
• To enable the student-teachers to apply the knowledge of educational psychology in their teaching-learning process.
• To integrate the ICTs in teaching-learning.
• To foster unity irrespective of their socio-economic and cultural disparities.
• To help them develop an analytic, synthetic, logical and critical mindset which enables them to face the hard reality of life and to initiate the desirable social transformation.
• To encourage extensive reading and to develop their creative self-expression.
• To help the student-teachers become integrated persons through harmonious development of physical, intellectual, emotional, social, moral and spiritual powers.
• To produce committed, competent, creative, compassionate and conscientious 'human engineers' as men and women for others.
• To facilitate them to interact and work together, and thus to develop Gender sensitivity.

The college has academically qualified and experienced principal with the band of dedicated teacher educators to form and train the student-teachers for the 21st century education. A well equipped and furnished library with a digitalised knowledge resource centre is at the service of both the student-teachers and the faculty to develop their intellectual potential. All the teacher educators are adapting a variety of innovative teaching-learning techniques such as video assisted lecture, role-play, symposium, seminar, workshop, debate, group discussion, interactive e-learning, demonstration, etc., to strengthen the student-teachers' academic skills and training.

By giving preference in admission, the college encourages the disadvantaged (physically, socially and economically) student-teachers to pursue their professional education in the college unbiased. Training on communication and soft skills and personality development are provided for the student-teachers' self-development. They are motivated to participate in the discussions on socio-economic and cultural issues of the nation to make them aware of the challenges of the society. All the international, national, regional and religious festivals are meaningfully celebrated with the active participation of the student-teachers and the staff which leads to imbibe the core values such as patriotism, secularism, brotherhood, social justice, etc. As a result, they become the agents of social transformation that leads to the national and global development as well.

A three-day biodiversity exposure trip to Kodai Hills (AINH - Anglade Institute of Natural History) is organized for the student-teachers to gain first-hand experience of biodiversity and the issues of ecology. Every year a one-day orientation on issues of ecology and environment is organized by the Entomology Research Centre, Loyola College.

All the activities of the college are geared towards the attainment of the four major educational objectives for 21st century education (UNESCO):
i) Learning to know,
ii) Learning to do,
iii) Learning to live together and

iv) Learning to be.

The college has a placement cell for providing better employment opportunities to the student-teachers. It offers training on various aspects related to employment such as workshop on resume preparation, how to face recruiting panel, orientation on job opportunities across the world and interactions with the teacher educators, teachers and teacher trainees so that the student-teachers become aware of the global trends and demands.