University of Chicago

INTRODUCTION ON UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

The University of Chicago ( Chicago, UChicago, or U of C) is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois. The university, created in the year 1890, is composed of the College, various graduate programs, and interdisciplinary committees categorized into 5 academic research divisions, 6 professional schools, and the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies. Apart from the arts and sciences, Chicago is also well recognised for its professional schools, that includes the Pritzker School of Medicine, the Law School,  the Booth School of Business, the School of Social Service Administration, the Divinity School and  the Harris School of Public Policy Studies. The university normally enrolls approximately 5,700 students in the College and approximately 15,000 students overall.

CAMPUS AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

The main campus of the University of Chicago consists of 217 acres in the  neighborhoods of Chicago at Hyde Park and Woodlawn, seven miles (11 km) south of downtown Chicago. The northern and southern portions of campus are parted by the Midway Plaisance, a large, linear park created for the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition. In the year 2011, Travel+Leisure had ranked the university as one of the most beautiful college campuses in the United States.


Cobb Lecture Hall, which is a member of the Main Quadrangles, was the first and most expensive of the campus' original sixteen buildings. Visioned by Henry Ives Cobb (no relation to benefactor Silas B. Cobb) and constructed in 1892, it was designed after Gothic buildings at University of Oxford.
The first buildings of the University of Chicago campus, which make up what is now recognized as the Main Quadrangles, were part of a "master plan" conceived by two University of Chicago trustees and executed by Chicago architect Henry Ives Cobb. The Main Quadrangles consist of six quadrangles, each enclosed by buildings, bordering one larger quadrangle. The buildings of the Main Quadrangles were modeled by Cobb, Rutan, Shepley and Coolidge, Holabird & Roche, and other architectural firms in a mixture of the Victorian and Collegiate Gothic styles, patterned on the colleges of the University of Oxford. (Mitchell Tower, as for example, is designed after Oxford's Magdalen Tower, and the university Commons, Hutchinson Hall, replicates Christ Church Hall.)

ACADEMICS AT UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO

The academic bodies of the University of Chicago composed of the College, 5 divisions of graduate research, six professional schools, and the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies. This university also contains a library system, the University of Chicago Laboratory Schools, the University of Chicago Press,  and the University of Chicago Medical Center, and holds ties with a vast number of non-dependent academic universities, including Argonne National Laboratory, Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory (Fermilab),  and the Marine Biological Laboratory.Also the university has been is accredited by The Higher Learning Commission.

The university conducts on a quarter system where the academic year is divided into four terms: Summer (June–August),  Winter (January–March), Autumn (September–December), and Spring (April–June). Full-time undergraduate students take 3 to 4 courses every quarter for approximately around 11 weeks before their quarterly academic breaks. The school year normally starts in late September and ends in mid-June.