diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index d756b7dcec8..2b2fa79705e 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
 - PR #1264 CuPy sparse matrix input support for WCC, SCC, SSSP, and BFS
 - PR #1265 Implement Hungarian Algorithm
 - PR #1274 Add generic from_edgelist() and from_adjlist() APIs
+- PR #1279 Add self loop check variable in graph
 
 ## Improvements
 - PR #1227 Pin cmake policies to cmake 3.17 version
diff --git a/python/cugraph/structure/graph.py b/python/cugraph/structure/graph.py
index fdeaff536ac..375e095a0ec 100644
--- a/python/cugraph/structure/graph.py
+++ b/python/cugraph/structure/graph.py
@@ -99,6 +99,7 @@ def __init__(
         self.multi = multi
         self.distributed = False
         self.dynamic = dynamic
+        self.self_loop = False
         self.edgelist = None
         self.adjlist = None
         self.transposedadjlist = None
@@ -403,6 +404,8 @@ def from_cudf_edgelist(
             if type(source) is list and type(destination) is list:
                 raise Exception("set renumber to True for multi column ids")
 
+        if (elist[source] == elist[destination]).any():
+            self.self_loop = True
         source_col = elist[source]
         dest_col = elist[destination]