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academic calendar type	academic quarter
admission rate	0.07 point in time: 2020
admission yield rate	0.74 point in time: 2020
athletics program	Chicago Maroons
Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education	doctoral universities: very high research activity majority graduate research doctoral: comprehensive programs, with medical/veterinary school four-year, large, highly residential arts & sciences focus, high graduate coexistence four-year, full-time, more selective, lower transfer-in
category for alumni of educational institution	Category:University of Chicago alumni
category for employees of the organization	Category:University of Chicago faculty
category of associated people	Category:University of Chicago people
chairperson	Robert Zimmer
child organization or unit	University of Chicago Press Department of Comparative Human Development, University of Chicago Argonne National Laboratory Evanston Hospital University of Chicago Graduate Library School start time: 1926; end time: 1989 Pritzker School of Molecular Engineering
Commons category	University of Chicago
coordinate location	41.7897, -87.5997
count of students	18,504 point in time: 2023
country	United States
described by source	Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition statement is subject of: 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica/Chicago, University of 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica statement is subject of: 1922 Encyclopædia Britannica/Chicago, University of Collier's New Encyclopedia, 1921 statement is subject of: Collier's New Encyclopedia (1921)/Chicago, University of The New Student's Reference Work statement is subject of: The New Student's Reference Work/University of Chicago, The New International Encyclopedia statement is subject of: The New International Encyclopædia/Chicago University
different from	University of Illinois Chicago
donations	704,552,617 United States dollar point in time: 2011 717,944,430 United States dollar point in time: 2012 1,464,776,423 United States dollar point in time: 2013 1,572,513,441 United States dollar point in time: 2014 1,524,767,840 United States dollar point in time: 2015 1,621,056,667 United States dollar point in time: 2016 1,667,523,784 United States dollar point in time: 2017 1,569,030,190 United States dollar point in time: 2018 2,445,344,205 United States dollar point in time: 2019 1,727,925,591 United States dollar point in time: 2020 1,873,493,993 United States dollar point in time: 2021 2,192,372,791 United States dollar point in time: 2022 2,415,783,023 United States dollar point in time: 2023 2,324,899,111 United States dollar point in time: 2024
employees	2,350
endowment	7,199,520,706 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2020
founder	John D. Rockefeller object of statement has role: donor American Baptist Education Society Silas B. Cobb object of statement has role: donor Charles L. Hutchinson object of statement has role: donor; object of statement has role: trustee Martin A. Ryerson object of statement has role: donor; object of statement has role: trustee John Dewey
funder	Open Society Foundations point in time: 2022; prize money: 600,000 United States dollar; award rationale: to support GenForward, an initiative at the Grantee’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Open Society Foundations point in time: 2021; prize money: 200,000 United States dollar; award rationale: to support GenForward, an initiative at the Grantee’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Open Society Foundations point in time: 2019; prize money: 300,000 United States dollar; award rationale: to support GenForward, an initiative at the Grantee’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Open Society Foundations point in time: 2019; prize money: 400,000 United States dollar; award rationale: to support GenForward, an initiative at the Grantee’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics, and Culture Open Society Foundations point in time: 2017; prize money: 400,000 United States dollar; award rationale: to provide organizational support to the GenForward Survey Project, a new initiative at the University of Chicago’s Center for the Study of Race, Politics and Culture
graduation rate	0.91 multiplier of normal graduation time: 1
grants	Howard Taylor Ricketts Prize
has part(s)	University of Chicago Divinity School University of Chicago Graduate Library School University of Chicago Institute of Politics University of Chicago Law School College of the University of Chicago Pritzker School of Medicine Booth School of Business Harris School of Public Policy University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies
headquarters location	Chicago
image	Campus Spring.jpg
inception	1890
industry	higher education
instance of	private university private not-for-profit educational institution research university
IPv6 routing prefix	2a03:b600:640::/107
language used	English
legal form	Nonprofit Corporation
located in the administrative territorial entity	Chicago
location	Chicago
logo image	University of Chicago wordmark.svg
member of	Consortium of Social Science Associations arXiv point in time: 2021 DataCite Association of American Universities start time: 1900 Higher Education Leadership Initiative for Open Scholarship start time: 2022 Coalition for Networked Information Center for Research Libraries Scholarly Publishing and Academic Resources Coalition Council on Governmental Relations
motto text	crescat scientia vita excolatur (la) literal translation: let knowledge grow from more to more and thus be human life enriched
native label	University of Chicago
normal graduation time	4 year
official map URL	https://maps.uchicago.edu/ has characteristic: interactive web map https://collegeadmissions.uchicago.edu/files/documents/visitor-map.pdf genre: visitor map; file format: PDF
official name	University of Chicago
official website	https://uchicago.edu/ language of work or name: English https://uchicago.cn/ language of work or name: English; applies to jurisdiction: People's Republic of China https://uchicago.hk/ language of work or name: English; applies to jurisdiction: Hong Kong https://uchicago.in/ language of work or name: English; applies to jurisdiction: India https://urb-bd.org/ language of work or name: English; applies to jurisdiction: Bangladesh
on focus list of Wikimedia project	Wikipedia:Vital articles/Level/4 point in time: 31 October 2022 Wikidata:WikiProject Academic Publisher
owner of	University of Chicago Press Gerald Ratner Athletics Center Hutchinson Commons WHPK
position held by head of the organization	President of the University of Chicago
postal code	60637
ranking	10 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2024 10 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2020 10 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2021 10 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2022 10 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2023 10 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2019 10 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2018 10 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2017 10 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2016 9 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2015 9 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2014 9 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2013 9 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2012 9 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2010 9 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2011 9 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2008 11 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2003 10 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2004 9 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2005 8 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2006 9 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2007 10 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2022 10 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2023 11 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2024 8 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2012 9 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2014 11 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2015 10 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2016 10 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2017 9 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2018 9 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2019 10 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2020 9 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2021 21 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2025 13 determination method or standard: QS World University Rankings; point in time: 2026 15 determination method or standard: Times Higher Education World University Rankings; point in time: 2026 10 determination method or standard: Shanghai Academic Ranking of World Universities; point in time: 2025
replaces	Old University of Chicago
short name	UChicago
significant event	mixed-sex education start time: 1892
social media followers	66,050 point in time: 6 January 2021; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 131144285 77,900 point in time: 3 July 2021; YouTube channel ID: UCGINcKuFbysZAslgL46KeOA 75,038 point in time: 26 January 2022; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 131144285 197,000 point in time: 18 March 2022; YouTube channel ID: UCGINcKuFbysZAslgL46KeOA 86,047 point in time: 5 February 2023; X (Twitter) numeric user ID: 131144285 229,000 point in time: 17 February 2023; YouTube channel ID: UCGINcKuFbysZAslgL46KeOA 242,000 point in time: 24 February 2024; YouTube channel ID: UCGINcKuFbysZAslgL46KeOA 252,000 point in time: 23 March 2025; YouTube channel ID: UCGINcKuFbysZAslgL46KeOA
street address	5801 S Ellis Ave, Chicago, IL, 60637
topic's main category	Category:University of Chicago
total assets	13,303,760,063 United States dollar point in time: 30 June 2020 9,405,971,301 United States dollar point in time: 2011 9,619,035,065 United States dollar point in time: 2012 9,703,508,112 United States dollar point in time: 2013 10,388,536,242 United States dollar point in time: 2014 10,868,194,860 United States dollar point in time: 2015 10,820,592,775 United States dollar point in time: 2016 11,314,699,739 United States dollar point in time: 2017 11,669,737,422 United States dollar point in time: 2018 12,698,965,590 United States dollar point in time: 2019 15,615,348,444 United States dollar point in time: 2021 14,408,247,538 United States dollar point in time: 2022 14,662,331,676 United States dollar point in time: 2023 14,950,131,084 United States dollar point in time: 2024
total revenue	2,271,504,269 United States dollar point in time: 2011 2,207,712,725 United States dollar point in time: 2012 3,091,898,511 United States dollar point in time: 2013 3,273,281,179 United States dollar point in time: 2014 3,333,076,637 United States dollar point in time: 2015 3,244,736,644 United States dollar point in time: 2016 3,598,136,536 United States dollar point in time: 2017 3,698,811,375 United States dollar point in time: 2018 4,490,577,850 United States dollar point in time: 2019 3,705,144,407 United States dollar point in time: 2020 4,208,313,004 United States dollar point in time: 2021 4,613,831,972 United States dollar point in time: 2022 4,659,559,211 United States dollar point in time: 2023 4,888,334,650 United States dollar point in time: 2024

Identifiers in other databases

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ACM Digital Library institution ID	60029278
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