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The Chicago University is located at the Hyde Park. The University of Chicago is a privately owned enterprise which was established in the year 1890. It was founded by John D. Rockefeller. The first class held at this famous university of Chicago was on 1st of October 1892. The University of Chicago is spread over an area of 211 acres and houses 243 buildings.
The University of Chicago was one amongst the first universities of US considered to have the amalgamation of both the American interdisciplinary liberal arts college and the German research university. The university is well known for its distinct core curriculum at the undergraduate level and the other educational advancements initiated by Robert Maynard Hutchins in the 1930s. It is famous for pioneering the academic quarter system and for and its different schools of study including 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. It was at the University of Chicago where the first nuclear reaction created by man sustained and it is also the home of the largest university press in the United States.
The University of Chicago has strength of 2,160 faculty members, 4,400 undergraduates and 9,000 graduate, professional, and other students along with 12,460 employees including the hospitals. The university has witnessed 70 Nobel Prize winners as its faculty members, student and research scholar.
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The University has many schools, academic divisions and colleges under it including :
Study Divisions under the University of Chicago
- Biological Sciences
- Humanities Physical
- Sciences
- Social Sciences
Schools under the University of Chicago
- Divinity School
- Graduate School of Business
- Graham School of General Studies (Department List)
- Harris Graduate School of Public Policy Studies
- Law School
- Pritzker School of Medicine
- School of Social Service Administration
Pre-Collegiate Education under the University of Chicago
- University of Chicago Laboratory Schools
- Hyde Park Day School
- Orthogenic School
- High School Summer Programs
Athletic teams under the University of Chicago
- The Maroons
- NCAA Division III
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