List of Universities

The University of Chicago (commonly referred to as UChicago, the U of C, or just Chicago) is a private, coeducational research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. It was founded by oil magnate and benefactor John D. Rockefeller and incorporated in 1890; William Rainey Harper became its first president in 1891 and the first classes were held in 1892.

The University consists of the College of the University of Chicago, various graduate schools and interdisciplinary committees organized into four divisions, six professional schools, and a school of continuing education. The University enrolls approximately 5,000 students in the College and about 14,000 students overall. It has a reputation of devotion to academic scholarship and intellectualism,[5][6] and is affiliated with 82 Nobel Prize laureates.[7]

In 2007, the University spent $322,488,000 on scientific research.[8] In the past, scholars at the University of Chicago have played a role in the development of the Chicago School of Economics, the Chicago School of Sociology, the Law and Economics movement in legal analysis,[9] and the physics leading to the world’s first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction.[10] The University is also home to the Committee on Social Thought, an interdisciplinary graduate research program, and to the largest university press in the United States.
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