Northwestern University is a private institution that was founded in
1851.
It
has a total undergraduate enrollment of 8,688,
its setting is suburban,
and the campus size is 231 acres.
It utilizes a quarter-based academic calendar.
Northwestern University's ranking in the 2015 edition of Best Colleges
is National Universities,
13.
Its tuition and fees are $47,251 (2014-15).
What began as farmland and swampland in the 1850s became the
Northwestern campus and the city of Evanston, Ill. Northwestern
University is a Division I school in the Big Ten athletic conference.
Northwestern's women's lacrosse team has won multiple NCAA national
championships. The school has hundreds of campus organizations fulfill
students' varied interests. Freshmen are guaranteed on-campus housing if
requested in their applications. The school's 11 residential colleges
offer thematic living quarters for social and academic programming.
Northwestern's main campuses are located along Lake Michigan in Evanston
and Chicago. In 2008, Northwestern opened a third branch in Doha,
Qatar.
Of Northwestern’s dozen schools, nine offer undergraduate programs and
10 offer graduate and professional programs. Northwestern’s
highly-ranked graduate schools include the Kellogg School of Management, the School of Education and Social Policy, the School of Law, the Feinberg School of Medicine, the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the Interdepartmental Biological Sciences Program.
Northwestern’s Medill School is known for its strong journalism
graduate program. Northwestern’s Dance Marathon, created in 1975, is one
of the largest student-run philanthropies in the country and has raised
more than $14 million for Chicago-area charities. Notable alumni
include the 55th mayor of Chicago Rahm Emanuel; retired U.S. Supreme
Court Justice John Paul Stevens; actor, writer and director Zach Braff;
comedian Stephen Colbert; and Tony Award-winning actress Heather
Headley.
Northwestern University offers unusual flexibility combined with a wide
choice of academic concentrations. In addition to over seventy
established majors, students can choose or design non-traditional
combinations. A broad range of field experiences, internships, and
programs combining work and study are part of the education for a large
percentage of the students. Because Chicago is only thirty minutes
away, students have the cultural advantage of the music, theatre,
museums, sports, and entertainment of a world-class city to enrich their
undergraduate experience.
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