University of Chicago - Bachelor's Degree

University of Chicago, located in Chicago’s Hyde Park neighborhood near Lake Michigan spans over 217 acres. UChicago offers 51 majors and 33 minors under its undergraduate program and has five divisions and six professional schools for graduate study. UChicago’s enduring commitment to interdisciplinary research has developed scholarship in fields spanning urban sociology to the arts, medicine to astrophysics.

 

 

School Description

The groundwork for the University of Chicago was laid on July 9, 1890. The University was founded on the commitment to offer a rigorous academic program and an ambition to provide opportunities for all departments of higher education to persons of both sexes on equal terms.
UChicago’s research has impacted 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.
UChicago’s first Nobel laureate was Albert A. Michelson – the first American to win the Nobel Prize in any of the sciences. Michelson was recognized in 1907 for his advancements in measuring the speed of light. In sum, faculty, researchers and alumni of the University of Chicago have earned nearly 90 Nobel Prizes and nearly 50 MacArthur ‘genius grants’, along with numerous national medals and fellowships.