In the comprehensive ranking of American universities in USNEWS in 2008, the University of Chicago and Columbia University tied for the ninth place in the United States. Located in the south of Chicago, it is a famous private school founded by John Rockefeller, an oil magnate, in 189 1, and 8/kloc-0 alumni won the Nobel Prize, including Chinese physicists Li Zhengdao, Yang Zhenning and Cui Qi. The incoming US President Barack Obama also taught 12 years of American Constitution course at the University of Chicago. In America, this university enjoys a high reputation. On the one hand, it is a cradle for training scientists, and on the other hand, it is also a place for exporting a large number of successful political and business people.
2. Northwest University
This ranked 14 in the ranking of American comprehensive universities in 2008, and ranked 30th in the world. It can be said that it is a shining university star in this land of Chicago. Compared with the University of Chicago in the south of Chicago, the main campus of Northwest University, which is also private, is located in Evaston in the north of Chicago. It is built on the beach of Lake Michigan and is several miles long. The traffic between Chicago and Evanston is very convenient. Even many people who work in Chicago will buy a house and settle in Evaston, because it is an ideal community for the upper-middle class, with good public security, pleasant environment, birds and flowers, and can be seen everywhere like "desperate housewives".
3. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
UIUC is not in Chicago, but in Champagne, a small town about 200 kilometers south of Chicago. It only takes more than two hours to drive to Chicago. This is the famous hometown of corn with beautiful scenery. The city has a population of only 70,000, but it is also very lively, because it is the seat of a famous university. UIUC has a beautiful campus, vast territory and complete public facilities. Its library is one of the best in public universities.
4. Illinois Institute of Technology.
IIT University ranks 98th in the USNEWS2008 ranking of American universities, and it is a research university. Its geographical location in Chicago is good, and it is located in the south of the city center, and Chinatown is not far from the school, so it is called the nearest university in the United States.
5. University of Illinois at Chicago
Perhaps for many applicants studying abroad, university ranking is one of the important indicators for choosing a school, which makes sense to some extent. However, I want to remind you that comprehensive ranking should not be used as the only criterion to measure your choice of school. Other factors that need to be considered include professional ranking, tutor direction, scholarship provision and geographical factors.
6. loyola loyola University and Debao University.
Both schools are four-year private Catholic universities. In Loyola University Chicago, 97% of full-time teachers have doctorates or the highest degree in this field, and both of them graduated from famous American universities, such as Columbia, Cornell, Harvard, Northwest, Princeton, Berkeley, Chicago, Yale and so on.
7. Chicago State University and Columbia College.
These two universities are not as well-known locally and overseas as the above-mentioned universities, but some of their majors are also well-known, such as education in the former and film art in the latter. Interested students should often visit the official website of the school and even get in touch with the professors of the school they are interested in, which is the beginning of their application for studying abroad.