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    University of Chicago

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    • Listing Type: Colleges & Universities
    • Top Majors: Biological Sciences, Liberal Arts, STEM
    • Degrees Awarded: 4 Year
    • Type: Private
    • Gender: Coed
    • Country: United States
    • In State Tuition: $47,764
    • Out of State Tuition: $47,764
    • Delivery: Day, Residential
    • Affiliation: The Common App, The Coalition Application, CACHET (Engineering & Technology Colleges), Air Force ROTC
    • Religious Affiliation: None
    • CEEB: 1832
    • IPED: 144050
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    Overview

    One of the world's premier academic and research institutions, the University of Chicago has driven new ways of thinking. UChicago is an intellectual destination that draws inspired scholars to our Hyde Park and international campuses, keeping UChicago at the nexus of new ideas.

    Our education empowers individuals to challenge conventional thinking in pursuit of original ideas. Students in the undergraduate College broaden their perspectives on world issues in the rigorous Core curriculum. Graduate programs through our five divisions, six professional schools, and the Graham School of Continuing Liberal Arts and Professional Studies transform scholars into leaders and grant access to professors often lauded as some of the world's greatest thinkers.

    With a commitment to free and open inquiry, our scholars take an interdisciplinary approach to research that spans arts to engineering, medicine to education. Their work transforms the way we understand the world, advancing—and creating—fields of study. Our scholars lead the country in scientific and technological innovations, often in partnership with our affiliated laboratories: Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory, and the Marine Biological Laboratory in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. Generating new knowledge for the benefit of present and future generations, UChicago research has had an impact around the globe, leading to such breakthroughs as discovering the link between cancer and genetics, establishing revolutionary theories of economics, and developing tools to produce reliably excellent urban schooling.