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Visit UChicagoOne of the world’s great intellectual destinations, the University of Chicago empowers scholars and students to ask tough questions, cross disciplinary boundaries, and challenge conventional thinking to enrich human life around the globe.
Join a community of the world’s brightest minds and prepare to tackle its greatest problems. Here, your ideas will be heard, supported, questioned, tested, and honed as you form a network of lifelong friends, colleagues, and collaborators.
With an unwavering focus on rigorous inquiry, UChicago research continually breaks new intellectual ground. Across disciplines, departments, and over 140 institutes and centers, our researchers produce ideas that matter—and change the world.
With a powerful combination of academic research, medical education, and compassionate patient care, the University of Chicago has been at the forefront of medicine since 1927.
At UChicago, civic engagement is an institution-wide commitment that draws upon our strength as an economic anchor and on the power of education, research, and innovation to create real, lasting impact and opportunity, in Chicago and beyond.
For more than a century, University of Chicago faculty and students have engaged around the world. Today, that reach extends farther than ever. Explore our overseas centers and global programs.
UChicago’s ivy-covered campus welcomes a diverse community of students, faculty, staff, and visitors who engage in inspired work and play, from spirited discussions on academics and art to competitions in athletics and the world’s largest, most legendary scavenger hunt.
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Library receives 2,700 Vivian Maier photographs
Gift creates largest institutional collection of acclaimed photographer’s prints
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Eugene Parker on first year of namesake NASA mission
Pioneering UChicago astrophysicist looks back at historic launch of solar probe
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OI marks 100 years of discovery in ancient Middle East
Museum, scholars have shaped study of earliest civilizations
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Studying abroad expands students’ learning beyond classroom
From Barcelona to Beijing, 58 programs in 32 cities prove transformative for students