Sociology Chicago school, legal analysis of the law and economics movement, literary criticism, the Chicago school, the Chicago school of economics Chicago school in Chicago, including the University of knowledge, has played an important role in the development of various academic disciplines, religious and political science behaviorism school. Chicago's physics department of the university of the world's first man-made under Stagg Field, helped to develop viable self-sustaining nuclear reaction. Chicago's research pursuits from Fermilab and Argonne National Laboratory near as well as unique commitment to world-renowned institutions such as the Marine Biological Laboratory is help. University of Chicago Press at the same time, the largest university press in the United States is home to the University. With an estimated completion date of 2020, Barack Obama Presidential Center and Obama presidential library and maintaining the Foundation's offices at the University of Chicago, Obama will be included as well.
The University of Chicago was founded in 1890, is a date established by oil tycoon John D. Rockefeller and donations from the rich man and the American Baptist Education Society; William Rainey Harper became the first president of the university in 1891 and the first classes were held in 1892 Harper and and future President Robert Maynard Hutchins theoretical and argued perennial problem curriculum, rather than in Chicago to be based on applied science and commercial interests on. with Harper's vision in mind, the University of Chicago in 1900, the American Association of Universities, an international organization of leading research universities, was one of the 14 founding members.
The University of Chicago is home to many well-known graduates. 89 Nobel Prize-winning guest professors, students, faculty, or staff member, the world's fourth most of any organization is like a relationship with the university. In addition, graduates of Chicago 49 Rhodes Scholars, 21 Marshall Scholars, 9 Fields Medal, 13 the National Humanities Medal, 13 billionaire graduates, and there is an abundance of all the United States in the world, members of Congress and the country president
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contents
1 History
1.1 Founder-1910
1.2 1920s-1980s
1.3 1990s-2010s
2 Campus
2.1 Satellite campuses
3 Management and financial
4 Academic
4.1 Degree College
4.2 Institutes and committees
4.3 Professional schools
4.4 Associated academic institutions
4.4.1 Library system
4.5 Research
4.6 Art
4.7 Reputation and rankings
5 people
5.1 Student body & acceptance
Athletics 6
7 Student life
7.1 Student organizations
7.1.1 Student government
7.2 fraternity and Dormitories
7.3 Student housing
7.4 Traditions
7.5 Graduates
7.6 Faculty
8 References
9 External links
History
Main article: University of Chicago History
Coat of arms historical University of Chicago
an early meeting ceremony at the University of Chicago
Founder-1910 Wiki founder and 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica article about the first years are the text.
The University of Chicago and a hybrid created in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society, on land donated by the oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller secular institutions and Marshall Field's was founded as a donation. Rockefeller donations while providing money for academic activities and long-term endowment, that kind of money is required by law can not be used for buildings. original physical campus, the campus' first building, funded by Silas Cobb Lecture Hall B. financed by donations from wealthy Chicagoans such as Marshall Field Cobb and $ 100,000 pledge mapped. Other early benefactors construction financed businessmen Charles L. Hutchinson (trustee, treasurer and Hutchinson Commons donor), Martin A. Ryerson (Ryerson Physical Laboratory trustees chairman and donor) Adolphus Clay Bartlett Leon Mandel, including a gymnasium and assembly hall and Walker Museum, George C. . Walker, encouraged his inaugural donation to the facility Cobb relative.
legal, because organized as an independent institution in 1886 extended financial and leadership problems off of the same name, took the place of the first Baptist college. William Rainey Harper became the first president of modern university on July 1, 1891 and the university opened for classes on October 1, 1892.
business school established in 1898 and a law school died in Harper's 1906 mandate was changed by the success of the three presidents in this period which lasted until 1929, was founded in 1902, the Oriental Institute to support and interpret archaeological artifacts called the Near East after established.
Des Moines College, Kalamazoo College, Butler University and Stetson University: In 1890, the University of Chicago, with its vast resources away from several regional colleges and the best students in conjunction with universities, circling the damage would be fearful of said small schools. In 1896, universities in Mount Carroll, Illinois connected with Shimane College. According to the provisions of trends, schools, early to inform the university of any thought faculty appointments or dismissals to send any faculty appointment and copies without the approval of the university examinations for proposals he was asked to be in a comparable study in college. The University of Chicago has agreed to discuss in any graduate level degree from a school attached to the notes made for four years, and took additional studies on other license two weeks at the University of Chicago. A connected school student or faculty member to receive the right to free education at the University of Chicago and Chicago students at a school connected to the same conditions and were eligible to receive credit for the work. The University of Chicago also agreed to provide the cost of books and scientific apparatus and connected with school supplies; Except without the cost of travel expenses and special education instructors; and a copy of every book and magazine published by University of Chicago Press at no charge. Agreement provided that both parties can end relationship in a reasonable period. He did not like about the various programs of the University of Chicago professor compensate for additional labor on their side and they believed they could cheapen the academic reputation of the university. The program made history by 1910.
1920s-1980s
In 1929, the university's fifth president, Robert Maynard Hutchins, he started to work; University has undergone many changes throughout the duration of his 24-year tenure. Hutchins, eliminating university college football to emphasize academics over athletics Common applied liberal arts curriculum of undergraduate college and today is known as Core Graduate work was organized in four sections of the university. In 1933, the Hutchins tenure (now called the University of Chicago Medical Center) Chicago Hospitals University construction is finished and the first medical students registered has proposed a plan failed to combine in Chicago and of Northwestern University into one university.during. In addition, the Committee on Social Thought, the university has created a unique institution.
suits, a group of people standing in three rows of steps in front of a stone building.
Enrico Fermi and Leo Szilard, including second front in the world's first man-made nuclear reactions produce viable self-sustaining, a part of the University of Chicago team is working on.
The Rockefeller Foundation had been raised during the 1920s and financial support money. assist the school in order to survive during the Great Depression during the Second World War, it has made significant contribution to the university Manhattan Project. The university was the site of the first artificial creation of the first isolation of plutonium and self-sustained nuclear reaction by Enrico Fermi
In the early 1950s, students practice in Hyde Park, the neighborhood has decreased as a result of increased crime and poverty. In contrast, university deeply affected both the neighborhood's architecture and street plan, Hyde Park, was the main sponsor of a controversial urban renewal project. During this period, Shimane University College and 10 others as early entrants agree to allow very young students, university program; In addition, Shimane registered students, after the second year, which is activated automatically transferred to the University of Chicago and is comparable to the same inspection or courses taken.
college students, the university's off-campus rental policies on a protest President George Beadle occupied the office in 1962, began, had its share of student unrest in the 1960s. After constant turmoil, a university committee in 1967 issued what became known as the Kalvi the report. In the report, the two-page statement of the university's policy of "social and political action," "statement to accomplish its mission in the community, maintain a university an outstanding environment for freedom of research and political fashion must protect the independence, passion and pressures."so late since the report, in the 1980s and 2000s in South Africa decided to divest the university has been used to justify the rejection of Darfur
In 1969, a popular professor, Marlene Dixon angry about the dismissal of more than 400 students occupied the Administration Building for two weeks. After the sit-in ended translate Dixon to a one-year reappointment process time, 42 students were expelled and were 81 suspended, the students most severe response to any American college student profession during the movement.
In 1978, Hanna Holborn Gray, then provost and vice president of Yale University, University of Chicago, a position he held for 15 years President
1990s-2010s
Midway Plaisance View
In 1999, then-President Hugo Sonnenschein, The New York Times, The Economist, and other major news outlets picked this story, by reducing the number of 15 to 21 to compulsory courses, the university college's famed core curriculum has announced plans to relax the national debate focus on education the point was changes were ultimately implemented, but discussions Sonnenschein decision to resign in 2000 played a role
Since the mid-2000s, the university launched a series of multi-million dollar expansion projects. In 2008, he announced that the University of Chicago faculty and students attracted to both support and discussion Milton Friedman plans to establish the Institute institute will cost about $ 200 million dollars and occupied buildings of Chicago Theological Seminary. In the same year, investor David G. Booth university's history and the largest gift to any business school has come the greatest gift the university's Booth School of Business, he has donated $ 300 million 2009, the year of construction, planning or costing more than $ 100 million, or half the number of new buildings was continued. Since 2011, major construction projects Jules and Gwen Knapp Biomedical Discovery, we have included the center of a ten-story medical research center and more additions to the University of Chicago Medical Center medical campus.In 2014, the University launched the public phase of the $ 4.5 billion fundraising campaign. September 2015, the University set up the Institute for Pearson Pearson Family Foundation received $ 100 million in Global Studies and Conflict Studies Harris School of Public Policy and the Global Forum for Resolution Pearson
On May 1, 2014 the University of Chicago by the White House duty "on the handling of sexual violence and harassment complaints to federal possible violations of law" one fifty-five higher education institutions are under investigation by the Civil Rights Office Protection Students from elected force of sexual assault.
Campus
University of Chicago campus.
University of Chicago campus. The top of the Rockefeller Chapel, the main square on the left (west) can be seen, the Oriental Institute and Becker Friedman Institute for Economic Research Center (North) Laboratory Booth School of Business and can be seen and schools right (East) visible. Panoramic Midway Plaisance (South) and is bounded on both sides.
The main campus of the University of Chicago in Hyde Park and Woodlawn, Chicago seven miles (11 km) south Chicago neighborhood of 211 acres (85.4 ha) consists. the northern and southern portions of campus Midway Plaisance, 1893 World's Columbian Exhibition created for a large, separated by linear park. In 2011, the United States of Travel + Leisure has listed the university as one of the most beautiful college campuses.
Cobb Hall, an expression of the main square, the first and the campus' original 16 buildings was the most expensive. Henry Ives Cobb in 1892 (no relation to charitable Silas B. Cobb) in the University of Oxford and built Gothic building designed by modeled after.
Now make the first structures of the University of Chicago campus, known as the main square, designed by two university trustees Chicago by Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb and plotted a "master plan" part. in the main square on a larger quadrangle limit of six square, surrounded by buildings consist each. The main rectangular buildings blend in Cobb, Shepley, Rutan and Coolidge, Holabird & Roche and other architectural firm designed by Oxford University colleges patterned Victorian Gothic and Collegiate Gothic styles.(Mitchell Tower, for example, is modeled after Oxford's Magdalen Tower,and the University Commons, Hutchinson Hall, replicates Christ Church Hall.
Many old buildings from the University of Chicago uses Collegiate Gothic architecture such as the University of Oxford. For example, Mitchell Tower in Chicago (left) Oxford Magdalene Tower (right) modeled after.
After the 1940s, modern style Gothic style on campus began to give way. In 1955, Eero Saarinen Laird Bell Law Quadrangle (a complex Saarinen's design) Midway buildings both north and south, including construction, contracted to develop a master plan that led to the second; art is a series of buildings; Social Services Administration of the university's School of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed by building Edward Durrell Public Policy by Stone Work Harris School is to house building and the Regenstein Library, the largest building on campus, the Chicago firm Skidmore, Owings & merrill.anoth master plan in 1999 designed and updated in 2004, Walter designed by Netscher brutalist structure, Gerald Ratner Athletics Center (2003), Max Palevsky Residential Commons (2001), South has produced the campus dormitory and dining commons (2009), a new children's hospital and other construction, expansions and restorations. In 2011, it provides a large reading room for Joe universities and university libraries in the form of glass dome and avoids the need for an off-campus Rika Mansueto Library book depository was completed.
Chicago Pile-1 site a National Historic Landmark and the Henry Moore sculpture is marked with nuclear energy. Glenn T. Seaborg and his team of plutonium were the first to isolate George Herbert Jones Laboratory, room 405 as Robie House, obtained by the university in 1963, a Frank Lloyd Wright building, it is also a National Historic Landmark. Hitchcock Hall, an undergraduate dormitory, is on the National Register of Historical Places.
University of Chicago Campus
Snell-Hitchcock, an undergraduate dormitory built in the early 20th century, is part of the main square.
The Rockefeller Chapel was built in 1928, neo-Gothic style was designed by Bertram Goodhue
Henry Hinds Laboratory of Geophysical Sciences was built in 1969.
Cesar Pelli opened in 2003 and designed by Gerald Ratner Athletics Center, volleyball, wrestling, swimming and basketball teams are housed.
Satellite campuses
University of Chicago, also holds opportunities outside the main campus. Booth School of Business University of Singapore maintains campuses in London and the city of Chicago Streeterville neighborhood. Paris in the center of Paris in a campus located in the left bank of the Seine, is hosting a variety of undergraduate and graduate education programs. In the autumn of 2010, the University of Chicago in the Haidian District of Renmin University in Beijing opened a center near campus. Opened in 2014, the latest addition to New Delhi, India, a center, and has a headquarters in Hong Kong opened in 2015
Management and financial
Hutchinson Commons
University of Chicago is governed by a board of trustees. The Board of Trustees oversees long-term development and college plans and manages fundraising efforts and is composed of 50 members, including the university president. Provost directly under the President (Chief Financial Officer of university students, including Chief Investment Officer, and Dean) fourteen Vice President, Argonne National Laboratory and Fermilab, University Secretary and Student Ombudsman Board. As of August 2009, the Board of Trustees President Andrew Alper, and the university's president is Robert Zimmer. In December 2013, Eric Isaacs, director of Argonne National Laboratory, announced it would
Provost.
The donation was the largest American educational institutions and 12th among public university system in 2013 and 2012 was worth $ 6.571 billion as of the university. Zimmer part of the President's financial plan for college debt accumulation to finance major construction projects has increased. This led to a lot of support and response of the university community.
Academic
University of Chicago Main square
University of Chicago academic bodies, College graduate research consists of four divisions and seven professional schools. University also has a library system, of Chicago Press, Chicago Laboratory Schools University and the University of Chicago Medical includes Central University and Fermilab, Argonne National Laboratory, including independent academic institutions, biological laboratory holding ties with numerous and Marine. University Colleges and Schools and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association.
Summer (June-August), autumn (September-December), winter (January-March), and Spring (April-June): runs on four semesters of the academic year the University is that the system is divided into quarters. Full-time undergraduate students three or four courses for about ten weeks before breaks quarterly academic work takes every quarter. The school year usually begins in late September and ends in mid-June.
Undergraduate college
Main article: University of Chicago College
Harper Memorial Library was dedicated in 1912 and takes its inspiration from various colleges in the UK
University of Chicago College 50 Science degrees in academic disciplines undergraduate grants and 28 academicians of the minors.th college is divided into five sections: Biological Sciences Collegiate Division, Physical Sciences Collegiate Division, the Social Sciences Collegiate Division, Humanities Collegiate Division and the New Collegiate Division. New Collegiate Division, one to the other four sections are directed interdisciplinary studies majors and fit the first four, they are post-graduate departments in the corresponding sections.
Undergraduates courses to meet the university's core curriculum known as Common Core must take a distribution. In 2012-2013, Chicago Core classes are limited to 17 students, and (unlike assistant) is managed by a full-time professor. demonstrated proficiency in foreign language teaching 2013-2014, as required under the core courses and 15. University of Chicago in the course of their demanding standards, heavy workload and is known for its academic rigor; According to the US "- Harvard, Yale, Princeton, MIT and the University of Chicago - the most credible among the most rigorous academic cream of American universities can not claim to provide an intensive learning experience that
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Eckhart Hall University's mathematics and statistics departments are housed.
Institutions and Committees
Biological Sciences, Humanities, Physical Sciences and Social Sciences: university graduate school is divided into four sections and committees. Division of Social Sciences Department of Biological Sciences, 461, 819 Humanities Division, Science and Technology Division 1024 and 1164: 2014 in the autumn quarter 3468 were university graduate students.
University various committees for interdisciplinary scholarship, including the Committee of Social Thought, is housed.
vocational schools
University includes seven professional schools: Medicine, Business Chicago Booth School University Pritzker School of Chicago Law School of the University of Chicago Divinity School, University, Public Policy Studies Chicago Harris School of the University, the University Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies and Social Services Administration of the Chicago School of the University of Chicago Graham School .
Law School is accredited by the American Bar Association, Faculty of Theology, the United States and Canada in the Divinity School is accredited by the Accrediting Commission of the Union has been accredited by the Pritzker Medical Education Liaison Committee.
Associated academic institutions
Chicago Lab School, a private day school operated by the university University
academic institutions outside of their undergraduate and graduate schools, universities and runs a number of programs. Chicago Laboratory Schools University (K-12 students and the school is a special day for day care) activities, South Sonia Shankman Orthogenic School (a residential treatment program for people with behavioral and emotional problems), and four public charter schools by the Institute for Urban Education Chicago as university managed. In addition, Hyde Park Day School, a school for students with learning disabilities, holds a position at the University of Chicago campus. Since 1983, Chicago University of Chicago School Mathematics Project, the University has maintained a math program used in urban primary and secondary schools. University graduate students, manages to provide a forum for interdisciplinary workshop faculty of Social Sciences Council on advanced research and runs a program called Human and visiting academics continues to provide scientific work. University of Chicago Press at the same time, the largest university press in the United States University of runs.
library system
University of Chicago, Harper Library
University of Chicago Library system in the United States between the 11th library system covers six libraries containing a total of 9.8 million volumes. main library of the University has Regenstein Library containing one of the largest collections of print volumes in the US. Built in 2011, Joe and Rika Mansueto Library, a large work area and automatic book storage and retrieval system is housed. John Crerar Library science and general science, medicine and technology, philosophy and history, biological, medical and physical sciences, and the collection includes more than 1.3 million volumes. The University also 2013 Harper Memorial Library is now 8, was closed in July renew temporary D'Angelo Law Library, Social Services Management Library, Eckhart Library for mathematics and computer science, including any unit operates a number of special libraries, including; but Regenstein Library, in addition to 24-hour work area on campus, it is.
Research
Aerial view of the Fermilab, in part one of the science research lab run by the University of Chicago
In fiscal year 2006, the University of Chicago spent US $ 305,301,000 scientific research. This "very high research activity" and classified by the Carnegie Foundation for Education Development and Institutional Cooperation Committee as an institution is a founding member of the American Association of Universities.
University campus operates 12 research institutes and 113 research centers. These include Near Eastern studies and universities which have the Oriental Institute museum and research center for the Middle East and a number of operator-National Resource Centres, including the Centre for the Study. Chicago is also linked with a number of works or separate appropriate university research institutions. University partially Argonne National Laboratory, Energy manages the Department section of the United States of the national laboratory system and Fermilab, as the common shares in a particle physics laboratory nearby as Sunspot, it has a stake in the New Mexico Apache Point Observatory. Faculty and students in Chicago adjacent Toyota Technological Institute in 2013, this university in Woods Hole, Mass formerly independent Marine Biology Laboratory announced that affiliating, we cooperate with universities. Although officially irrelevant, Chicago's National Opinion Research Center located on campus.
The University of Chicago has been listed some important experiments and academic movement. In economics, the university played an important role in shaping ideas about the free market economy and namesake of the Chicago schools, schools of economic thought supported by Milton Friedman and other economists. The first section of independent sociology and sociology of the sociology department of the University of Chicago in the United States gave birth to school. In physics, the burden of university electron calculated Robert Millikan's oil drop experiment Chicago Pile-1 (the first self-sustained human-made nuclear reaction, the Manhattan Project's part) was on site, and the 1947 life early World Miller-Urey how to test for the first time in experiments radiocarbon dating test chemical development by Willard F. Libby, was held at the university. REM sleep was discovered by Nathaniel Kleitman and Eugene at the university in 1953 by Aserinsky.
University of Chicago (Astronomy and Astrophysics Department) and the other telescope in the world largest refracting telescope operation since 1897. Located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin was having Yerkes Observatory.
Art
Becker Friedman Institute of the Ministry of Economy and housing economy Saieh Hall
uchicago Arts program, the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago Presents and students Court Theatre, academic departments and Humanities Department, as well as professional organizations of the College program joins arts organizations like the Oriental Institute of Art Smart Museum. University performance studies, film history and criticism of contemporary art has an artist-in-residence program and academics. Since 1933 Since 2000, cinema and media studies offered doctorate in music composition, visual arts (early 1970s) arts master and creative writing piece (2000) and human arts master. More recently, visual arts, music and art history and in degree programs, cinema and media studies (1996) and theater and performance studies (2002). College general education core art history, performing desire to work, or one that requires students to start working with sculpture "dramatic, musical and visual arts" includes the requirement. Thousands of major and non-major degree in the creative and performing arts course in record year. Compass Players student comedy troupe in 1959 Reva to develop theater troupe Second City as he turned [108] uchicago usually after improvisational comedy is considered the birthplace and Art David Logan Center five years graduate David Logan and his wife Rev from a $ 35 million gift, opened in October 2012 . center exhibits, performances, classes and includes space for media production. Logan Center was designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. This building is actually entirely of glass. brick facade is a glass designed to keep you safe from the wind. When the pressure was blocked views of the city emerge as brick was removed after complaints architects sections.
Reputation and rankings
university rankings
National
ARW 8
Forbes 20
US News & World Report 4
Washington Monthly 55
global
ARW 9
QS 10
10 Times
University of Chicago, has a record of producing successful businessmen and billionaires.
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Fermilab Da aerial view, in part one of the science research lab run by the University of Chicago
In fiscal year 2006, the University of Chicago spent US $ 305,301,000 scientific research. This "very high research activity" and classified by the Carnegie Foundation for Education Development and Institutional Cooperation Committee as an institution is a founding member of the American Association of Universities.
University campus operates 12 research institutes and 113 research centers. These include Near Eastern studies and universities which have the Oriental Institute museum and research center for the Middle East and a number of operator-National Resource Centres, including the Centre for the Study. Chicago is also linked with a number of works or separate appropriate university research institutions. University partially Argonne National Laboratory, Energy manages the Department section of the United States of the national laboratory system and Fermilab, as the common shares in a particle physics laboratory nearby as Sunspot, it has a stake in the New Mexico Apache Point Observatory. Faculty and students in Chicago adjacent Toyota Technological Institute in 2013, this university in Woods Hole, Mass formerly independent Marine Biology Laboratory announced that affiliating, we cooperate with universities. Although officially irrelevant, Chicago's National Opinion Research Center located on campus.
The University of Chicago has been listed some important experiments and academic movement. In economics, the university played an important role in shaping ideas about the free market economy and namesake of the Chicago schools, schools of economic thought supported by Milton Friedman and other economists. The first section of independent sociology and sociology of the sociology department of the University of Chicago in the United States gave birth to school. In physics, the burden of university electron calculated Robert Millikan's oil drop experiment Chicago Pile-1 (the first self-sustained human-made nuclear reaction, the Manhattan Project's part) was on site, and the 1947 life early World Miller-Urey how to test for the first time in experiments radiocarbon dating test chemical development by Willard F. Libby, was held at the university. REM sleep was discovered by Nathaniel Kleitman and Eugene at the university in 1953 by Aserinsky.
University of Chicago (Astronomy and Astrophysics Department) and the other telescope in the world largest refracting telescope operation since 1897. Located in Williams Bay, Wisconsin was having Yerkes Observatory.
Art
Becker Friedman Institute of the Ministry of Economy and housing economy Saieh Hall
uchicago Arts program, the Renaissance Society, University of Chicago Presents and students Court Theatre, academic departments and Humanities Department, as well as professional organizations of the College program joins arts organizations like the Oriental Institute of Art Smart Museum. University performance studies, film history and criticism of contemporary art has an artist-in-residence program and academics. Since 1933 Since 2000, cinema and media studies offered doctorate in music composition, visual arts (early 1970s) arts master and creative writing piece (2000) and human arts master. More recently, visual arts, music and art history and in degree programs, cinema and media studies (1996) and theater and performance studies (2002). College general education core art history, performing desire to work, or one that requires students to start working with sculpture "dramatic, musical and visual arts" includes the requirement. Thousands of major and non-major degree in the creative and performing arts course in record year. Compass Players student comedy troupe in 1959 Reva to develop theater troupe Second City as he turned [108] uchicago usually after improvisational comedy is considered the birthplace and Art David Logan Center five years graduate David Logan and his wife Rev from a $ 35 million gift, opened in October 2012 . center exhibits, performances, classes and includes space for media production. Logan Center was designed by Tod Williams and Billie Tsien. This building is actually entirely of glass. brick facade is a glass designed to keep you safe from the wind. When the pressure was blocked views of the city emerge as brick was removed after complaints architects sections.
Reputation and rankings
university rankings
National
ARW 8
Forbes 20
US News & World Report 4
Washington Monthly 55
global
ARW 9
QS 10
10 Times
University of Chicago, has a record of producing successful businessmen and billionaires. The United States and the world's most prestigious and leading position as one of the ARW institutions and confirmed by the US News rankings with numerous organizations such as ranking among the world's top 10 universities continuously coiled by the University of Chicago. In addition, graduate schools as long as several ranking is considered the best business school in the world Property Booth schools like School, the world recognized that standards and Law and Medical Schools five and top ten vocational schools respectively in the United States, a position has been occupied in consistently high. While Chicago exhibit academic excellence in almost all areas, particularly with the many university ranking as among the top 2 or top 5 positioning in the world, it shows the power of the social sciences.
People
See also: the people of the University of Chicago and at the University of Chicago Nobel laureate List List
Awards were announced at follow-up research or faculty at the university 19 people from the University of Chicago, has been connected to 89 Nobel laureates.
In addition, many graduates and academics won a Fulbright award in Chicago and has members in 50 Rhodes Scholars.
Student body demographics, Spring Quarter 2012 [A]
by sex
Graduated from a Universty
Professional schools
School University
total
Male 51.3% 58.3% 61.2% 56.3%
Women 48.7% 41.7% 38.8% 43.7%
by race
Graduated from a Universty
Professional schools
School University
total
International students 18.9% 20.6% 31.2% 9.7%
African American 4.5% 2.8% 4.8% 4.3%
Indians 0.1% 0.3% 0.1% 0.2%
Arab / Middle East /
North Africa 0.6% 0.5% 0.1% 0.2%
Asia 16.9% 13.5% 12.4% 4.9%
Pacific Islander 0.06% 0.00% 0.00% 0.02%
Hispanic / Latino 9.0% 3.7% 4.8% 6.0%
Multiethnic 4.0% 2.9% 2.0% 2.9%
White 42.8% 42.0% 48.2% 44.2%
Unspecified 12.4% 10.7% 11.6% 5.9%
The student body and accept [edit]
2014 fall semester, University of Chicago, 5792 College students, 3468 graduate students in four sections, 5984 students enrolled 15244 students in general and professional schools. [86] 2012 Spring Quarter, international students constitute almost 19% of the overall body of work, the students were female and 26% indigenous ethnic minorities on approximately 44% of registered students. Admission is highly selective University of Chicago. writing section except 2015 license SAT scores for the class, the middle 50% band, from 1420 to 1530 was an average MCAT score to enter medicine Pritzker School students in 2011 was 36, and in 2011 the median END points to enter law school students in 2015. The University of Chicago College Class in 2019, the college had a date for the low acceptance rate of 7.8% was 171.
Athletics
Official Athletics logo
Main article: Chicago Maroons
All the 2012-2013 academic year, 502 students participated, called Maroons, 10 men's and 9 women's teams: the University of Chicago is hosting the 19 varsity sports teams.
Maroons University Athletic Association (UAA) as a member of the NCAA's section III will compete. University and founding member of the Big Ten Conference was a regular participant in the men's basketball tournament NCAA Division I Men's Basketball and Football and was joined. In 1935, the University of Chicago has reached the Sweet Sixteen. 1935 Chicago Maroons players Jay Berwanger was the first Heisman Trophy winner. However, university President Robert Maynard Hutchins University in 1939, then chose to withdraw from the conference stressed college athletics and football fell in 1946. [134] (In 1969, Chicago continue to play their home games, play as a team again in the new Stagg Field III team.)
Student Life
university Reynolds Club, student center
Student organizations
400 clubs on students at the University of Chicago and Recognized Student Organizations (rsos) run organization known as. These cultural and religious groups, academic clubs and teams, and is located in the common interest for organizations. [136] Important international non-group leader both categories, 118 tournaments and won 15 national championships in Chicago College Bowl Team, located at the University. university competition Model United Nations team in 2013-14 and 2014-2015 was the top-ranked team in North America. important rsos in Chicago Scavenger Hunt, twice-weekly student newspaper, the Chicago Maroon, the alternative weekly student newspaper South Side organizing committee for the weekly University, the country's longest continuously running student film society has Doc Films, the nation's second oldest continuously running student improv troupe Off -Off Campus, and WHPK radio station operated by the university.
Student government
All academic teams, sports clubs, art groups, in addition to the UN Model University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt Recognized Student Organizations from Chicago Student Government and is funded by the University. Student Government consists of undergraduate and graduate students selected to represent the members of its academic units. a history of the two Vice-Presidents elected by the student body together every spring, a Steering Committee chaired by the President with the help of other students for life and one for management, is managed by. The annual budget is more than $ 2 million.
Brotherhood and Dormitories
fifteen fraternities and seven sororities at University of Chicago, as well as a co-ed community service fraternity, Alpha Phi Omega. sororities between [139] Four members of the National Panhellenic Conference and forming fraternities on Chicago Inter University Council of brotherhood. In 2002, the Associate Director of Student Activities 8-10 percent of undergraduate fraternities or sororities estimated to be members. participate in student activities office said on license Greek life, used similar figures.
Student house
an orange brick building with the blue roof and window frames pink
Max Palevsky Residential Commons, Mexico postmodernist architect, built in 2001, designed by Ricardo Legorreta abroad
Main article: University of Chicago Housing
Campus University of Chicago undergraduate students each student a "house" called one of the university buildings and dormitories of 11 to participate in the system is assigned a home in a small community in their country. 38 houses, each house 70 students per Freshmen are required to participate in the system and are guaranteed residential homes every year after. Approximately 60% of undergraduate students live on campus.
For graduate students, the university owns and operates 28 apartment near campus.
customs
Qwazy Quad Rally, SCAVI Hunter 2005 article 38.
Main ingredients: Doc Films, Summer Breeze (concerts) and the University of Chicago Scavenger Hunt
Since 1987, each May, the University of Chicago students in large teams compete to obtain a list of Chicago Scavenger Hunt knows esoteric products held University. Since 1963, Arts Festival (FOTA) for 7-10 days of interactive art exhibits and effort over the campus. In January every year, the university takes place early morning exercise routines and fitness workshops, a week-long winter festival, Kuviasungnerk / Kangeiko amount. The University also holds a summer carnival and concert at the Summer Breeze years hosting foreign musicians and Doc Films, showed a movie night at the university student films was established in 1932, it is home to the community. Since 1946, university-fry the latkes and Hamantash Hamantash discussion contains humorous debate about the relative merits and meanings, it has been organized.
Alumni
Main article: University of Chicago graduates list
The physicist Enrico Fermi.
In 2004, the University of Chicago who has claimed 133 155 graduates. The first president of the university when William Rainey Harper stressed the importance of the annual curriculum theory on the practicality of his institution, not stopped it from being among the world's richest Chicago graduates.
In business, important alumni Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, Oracle Corporation founder and American Larry Ellison is the third richest man, Goldman Sachs and MF Global CEO as well as New Jersey Jon Corzine former governor, first with McKinsey & Company founder and author including management accounting textbook James O. McKinsey, Arley D. Cathey, Daniel Doctoroff, CEO of Bloomberg LP, credit Suisse CEO Brady Dougan, Morningstar, Inc. founder and CEO Joe Mansueto, Chicago Cubs owner and Chairman of the Board Thomas S. Ricketts and NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.
In 1947, Canadian Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King.
Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens.
Notable alumni in the field of education has emerged in almost all areas of the university. Faculty of Theology, for example, college president and prime minister Rebecca Chopp, Shimane College Susan Henking available Middlebury College Laurie L. Patton, Robert M. Franklin Jr., Morehouse College, the former president, chairman and president, each boasts whom Ph.D. From the Faculty of Theology.
Notable alumni in the government and politics of modern society organization Saul Alinsky founder, President Obama campaign adviser and top political adviser to Bill Clinton, David Axelrod, chief public prosecutor and federal judge Robert Bork, the Attorney General Ramsey Clark, prohibition agent Eliot Ness, including Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens, Canada, William Lyon Mackenzie King, Poland Marek Belka 11. the Prime Minister of Japan, Masaaki Shirakawa, the first female African-American Senator Carol Moseley Braun, Vermont United States Senator Bank Governor Prime Minister and the 2016 Democratic Presidential Nominee Bernie Sanders, President and former world Bank Paul Wolfowitz.
Journalism major graduate of New York Times columnist and commentator PBS News Hour David on Brooks, Washington Post columnist David Broder, Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham, investigative journalist and political writer Seymour Hersh, including Progressive corner of Milton Mayer, journalist, winners four times Pulitzer Prize Rick Atkinson, statistical analysts and five thirtyeight founder and creator Nate Silver and CBS News correspondent Rebecca Jarvis.
In the literature, The New York Times bestselling author Lauren Oliver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize writer Philip Roth Fall ago, Canadian-born literature laureate Saul Bellow New York Times political philosopher, literary critic and author of the Pulitzer Prize and the Nobel Prize bestseller Allan Bloom "American Mind Closing " 'Good War" author Studs Terkel, American author, essayist, director, teacher and political activist Susan Sontag, analytical philosophy and comparative literature Richard Rorty of Stanford University Professor and American author and satirist Kurt Vonnegut important alumni.
arts and entertainment, dance anthropology Katherine Dunham, the Halo video game series, Alex Serop the Serial host Sarah Koenig, actor Ed Asner, Pulitzer Prize Bungie founder and minimalist composer in the developer space by Philip Glass, dancer, choreographer and leading film critic and self Roger Ebert, director, writer and comedian Mike Nichols, film director and screenwriter Philip Kaufman, and Carl Van Vechten, photographer and writer, graduated in 2014 winning documentary film critical issues of life.
In 1980, astronomer Carl Sagan.
Science graduates are known as one of the best protection "Hubble's Law", NASA astronaut John M. Grünsfeld, geneticists James Watson, renowned astronomer Carl Sagan, of extraterrestrial life in a significant contribution to scientific research and Edwin Hubble, including DNA, experimental physicist Luis Alvarez, popular environmentalist David Suzuki, bubble Jeannette Piccard structure explorers, biologist Ernest Everett Just and Lynn Margulis, a computer scientist Richard Hamming, Hamming Code creator, lithium-ion battery developer John B. Good enough, mathematician and fields Medal, Paul Joseph Cohen has developed uranium-lead and lead-lead dating method extending into geochemist Clair Cameron Patterson. nuclear-powered spacecraft worked on some early projects involving propulsion systems for nuclear physicist and researcher Stanton Friedman, also a graduate (m.sc) d.
Economic Sciences winner of the 2004 Nobel Memorial Prize Milton Friedman.
In economics, notable Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences winner Milton Friedman, the Republican US President Ronald Reagan and Conservative British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, George Stigler, the defender of the Nobel laureate and regulatory capture theory a great counselor, Gary Becker, an important contribution to the modern interpretation of the concept of making organizational decisions responsible economic family economics branch, Herbert Simon, Paul Samuelson, Nobel Prize in Economics, and the first American to win Eugene Fama, his well-known work with portfolio theory, on asset pricing and market behavior are all graduates. American economist, social theorist, political philosopher and author Thomas Sowell also a graduate.
Other prominent alumni Afar anthropologists in Triangle David Graeber and best "Lucy" is known for discovering a female hominid Australopithecus fossil known as Donald Johanson, including, psychologist John B. Watson, founded behaviorism psychological school American psychologist communications theorist Harold Innis, chess master Samuel Reshevsky and conservative international relations scholar Samuel P. Huntington National Security Council and White House Coordinator for Security Planning.
Some accepted by the American Civil Rights Movement leader Vernon Johns, Highlander Folk School Myles Horton, Tuskegee Airmen commander Benjamin O. Davis, Jr., and the African American Civil Rights Movement founder, American educator, being a partner of socialist and founder of American history scholar and journalist Carter G. Woodson are all graduates.
Three students from the university were tried in important cases, they thrill killers Leopold and Loeb found the infamous Scopes Monkey Trial as well as a high school science teacher John T. Scopes was tried.
University graduate's most famous fictional archaeologist Indiana Jones, is the title character of the Indiana Jones series.
faculty
a belt at the university gate
Notable faculty Milton Friedman, George Stigler, James Heckman, Gary Becker, Robert Fogel, Robert Lucas and Eugene Fama associated with the university, including Economics includes 28 Nobel laureates. No university has been more dependent Economics Nobel laureate. Also, he will be rewarded the best economist under the age of 40 years, John Bates Clark Medal, awarded to university education has also seen 7 members.
faculty remarkable physics, "hydrogen father of the bomb" light account Michelson, primary charge account Robert Andrews Millikan, Compton, Arthur H. Compton discovered, the Enrico Fermi's first nuclear reactor, have included the creator speed Edward Teller, "the twentieth century, the most brilliant and efficient one experimental physicist "quark has introduced Luis Alvarez, Murray Gell-Mann, the second female Nobel Prize winner Maria Goeppert-Mayer, a young American to win the Nobel Prize Tsung- Dao Lee and astrophysicist Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar.
Legal, US President Barack Obama, the 20th century and the most cited legal scholar Richard Posner, the Supreme Court Judge Elena Kagan and Antonin Scalia and Economics Nobel laureate Ronald Coase has teaching duties.
social psychology, and generally considered one of the founders of sociological tradition of American functional psychology founded philosopher John Dewey, George H. Mead, Literature thinker Bertrand Russell, gained strength Hannah Arendt and the Nobel Prize said analyzer Eliot as a good writer TS, Ralph Ellison and J. Coetzee has taken all faculty task.
also history teaching, Egyptologist James Henry Breasted, mathematician Alberto Calderon, Nobel prize winner economist and classical liberalism advocates Friedrich Hayek, meteorologist Ted Fujita, chemist Glenn T. Seaborg, actinide concept and Nobel Prize winners have included Yuan T. Lee developer Nobel Prize-winning novelist Saul Bellow, political philosopher and author Allan Bloom, cancer researchers Charles Brenton Huggins and Janet Rowley, astronomer Gerard Kuiper, linguistics Edward in the early development of the Sapir discipline is one of the most prominent and McKinsey founder Co., James O. McKinsey &.
Current faculty anthropologist Marshall Sahlins, historian Dipesh Chakrabarty, paleontologist Neil Shubin and Paul Sereno, evolutionary biologist Jerry Coyne, Nobel prize winner physicist Yoichiro Nambu, Nobel prize winner physicist James Cronin including Nobel Prize-winning economist Eugene Fama, James Heckman, Lars Peter Hansen , Roger Myerson and Robert Lucas, President JR, Freakonomics author and renowned economist Steven Levitt, India's central bank Raghuram Rajan, the current governor of the Treasury 74 US Secretary and former Goldman Sachs chairman and CEO Hank Paulson, the former chairman of Economic Advisors Austen Goolsbe a Shakespeare scholar David Bevington and renowned political scientists John Mearsheimer and Robert Pape Barack Obama's Council.
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