The University of Chicago

5801 South Ellis Avenue
Chicago, Illinois 60637
Phone: (773) 702 - 1234
Website: uchicago.edu

Founded in 1890, the University of Chicago is one of the world’s leading intellectual communities and centers of learning. With a world-class faculty, a culture of the most rigorous inquiry, and a distinctive organizational structure that fosters broad, interdisciplinary collaboration, the University offers unmatched opportunities to cultivate scientific and technological discoveries that make a profound and lasting impact upon the world. More than eighty recipients of the Nobel Prize have been students, researchers, or faculty members at the University. Private, nondenominational and coeducational, The University of Chicago enrolls 14,721 students – including 4,901 undergraduates – and has 2,168 full-time instructional and research faculty members. Its Medical Center is consistently ranked as one of the best treatment centers in the nation and a major source of innovative biomedical research. The University of Chicago also manages, supports, and collaborates with two major federal research centers where cutting edge science is always underway: Argonne National Laboratory and Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory.