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The University of Chicago (UChicago, Chicago, U of C, or UChi) [12] is a private research university in Chicago, Illinois, United States.Its main campus is in the Hyde Park neighborhood on Chicago's South Side, near the shore of Lake Michigan about 7 miles (11 km) from the Loop.
Housing at the University of Chicago includes seven residence halls that are divided into 48 houses. [1] Each house has an average of 70 students. Freshmen and sophomores must live on-campus. Limited on-campus housing is available to juniors and seniors. [2] The university operates 28 apartment buildings near campus for graduate students.
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The University of Chicago has never had a substantial number of active secret societies; indeed, shortly after the university's founding, the faculty of the university released a resolution suggesting that the exclusionary structure of many such societies made them antithetical to the democratic spirit of the university. [75]
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In addition, College Crunch, an online college admissions resource, ranked the University of Chicago as 1st in the country among colleges and universities for its undergraduate college. [12] The University also has the highest SAT ranges for admitted students of any school in the nation.
Robert Morris University Illinois (1913–2020, Chicago), merged into Roosevelt University in 2020 Sanford–Brown (1920–2017, Chicago) Shimer College (1853–2017, Mount Carroll, Waukegan, Chicago), merged with North Central College in Naperville in 2017
In October 2014 the NRC was relocated to Northwestern University's downtown Chicago, Illinois campus. [5] Under current practices, if an OLLI program has 500 fee-paying members by the end of its fourth year, the university is eligible for a $1 million endowment grant from the Osher Foundation.