UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO,USA

The University of Chicago is a private university principally located seven miles (11 km) south of downtown Chicago, in the Hyde Park and Woodlawn neighborhoods. Founded in 1890 by the American Baptist Education Society and the oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago held its first classes on October 1, 1892.

Affiliated with 81 Nobel Prize laureates, the University of Chicago is widely regarded as one of the world’s foremost universities. Historically, the university is noted for the unique undergraduate core curriculum pioneered by Robert Maynard Hutchins in the 1930s, and for influential academic movements such as the Chicago School of Economics, the Chicago School of Sociology, the Chicago School of Literary Criticism, and the law and economics movement in legal analysis. The University of Chicago was the site of the world’s first man-made self-sustaining nuclear reaction. It is also home to the largest university press in the United States.

Although the University was established by Baptists, it was non-denominational from the start. It also welcomed women and minority students at a time when many universities did not.
Departments of The University of Chicago

• Graduate School of Business
• Office of College Admissions Undergraduate
• Office of the University Registrar
• Office of Undergraduate Student Housing
• President’s Office