The University of Chicago is a private university located principally in the Hyde Park neighborhood of Chicago. Founded in 1890 by oil magnate John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago held its first classes on October 1, 1892. Chicago was one of the first universities in the country to be conceived as a combination of the American interdisciplinary liberal arts college and the German research university.
The University of Chicago is widely recognized as one of the world’s foremost universities. The university is affiliated with 79 Nobel Prize laureates. Particularly notable are the university’s 27 laureates in physics and 23 laureates in economics. Historically, the university is noted for its unique undergraduate core curriculum as well as other educational innovations pioneered by Robert Maynard Hutchins in the 1930s (including the academic quarter system), and for influential academic movements such as the “Chicago School of Economics”, the “Chicago School of Sociology,” the “Chicago School of Literary Criticism,” and the law and economics movement in legal analysis. The University of Chicago was the site of the world’s first self-sustained nuclear reaction. It is also home to the largest university press in the country.
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