University of Chicago
5801 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, IL 60637
The University of Chicago is bigger than you may think. Besides the undergraduate college at the University of Chicago, the four graduate divisions, and the six professional schools, there are libraries, laboratories, museums, clinics, and other institutions; nursery and K-12 schools; a continuing-studies program; and an academic press. There are programs on the Hyde Park campus and programs around the world. For example, Chicago's program of European studies at this Chicago college that focus on France is anchored in the University's Center in Paris, which opened in autumn 2003.

More than 2,100 full-time academic staff teach or conduct research at the University of Chicago. On the Quadrangles, there are 4,542 students in the undergraduate college, 3,899 graduate students in arts and sciences, 3,359 graduate professional school students, and 396 in special programs at this Chicago college. There are also 1,915 students enrolled in off-campus programs at the University of Chicago, including the Graduate School of Business campuses in Londonand Singapore.
  
 
Quick Facts:
  • The University of Chicago was founded in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society and oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, who later described the University of Chicago as "the best investment I ever made." The land for the new university, in the recently annexed suburb of Hyde Park, was donated by Marshall Field, owner of the Chicago department store that bears his name.
  • Although the University of Chicago was established by Baptists, it was non-denominational from the start. This Chicago college also welcomed women and minority students at a time when many universities did not.
  • The University of Chicago has had a profound impact on American higher education; curricula across the country have been influenced by the emphasis on broad humanistic and scientific undergraduate education.
  • This Chicago college also has a well-deserved reputation as the "teacher of teachers" -- teaching is the most frequent career path for alumni, luring more than one in seven.
  • One of the world's preeminent research institutions, the University of Chicago was founded to create new knowledge and disseminate it through teaching, publication, and the development of discoveries and new technologies for the public benefit.
  • On the 3rd floor of the Regenstein at the University of Chicago you can find a copy of pretty much any issue of any major newspaper or magazine on microfilm. Just find the film you want, put it in one of the machines, and you can even use your University of Chicago ID to print out whatever you are looking at!
  • If you bring your own mug, no matter how big, you can get coffee for 50 cents at Uncle Joe's and 45 cents at Cobb at this Chicago college.
  
 
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