Comprising eleven colleges and schools, Loyola offers over 80 undergraduate and 140 graduate/professional programs and enrolls approximately 16,000 students total. Loyola has six campuses located across the Chicago metropolitan area, as well as a campus in Rome and guest programs in Beijing and Ho Chi Minh City. The flagship Lake Shore Campus is located along the shores of Lake Michigan in the Rogers Park and Edgewater neighborhoods of Chicago, eight miles north of the Loop.
Adj. 1. steep-having a sharp inclination; the steep attic stairs; steep cliffs. vertical, perpendicular-at right angles to the plane of the horizon or a base line; a vertical camera angle; the monument consists of two vertical pillars supporting a horizontal slab; measure the perpendicular height.
SYNONYMY NOTE: steep 1 suggests such sharpness of rise or slope as to make ascent or descent very difficult [a steep hill]; abrupt implies a sharper degree of inclination in a surface breaking off suddenly from the level [an abrupt bank at the river's edge]; precipitous suggests the abrupt and headlong drop of a precipice [a precipitous height]; sheer 1 applies to that which is perpendicular, or almost so, and unbroken throughout its length [cliffs falling sheer to the sea]