The University of Chicago has 10555 students, including 3,756 undergraduates, and more than 1200 full-time faculty members engaged in teaching and scientific research. The teacher-student ratio of the school has been kept within 1:6. There are dozens of disciplines in the school, more than half of which can be awarded master's and doctoral degrees. It is particularly worth mentioning that anthropology, earth science, economics, geography, history, linguistics, statistics, sociology and other disciplines rank in the top ten in the corresponding fields of American universities, with strong academic strength. In terms of admission, the University of Chicago is one of the most competitive universities in the United States, and the undergraduate admission rate announced in 20 15 was 7.6%.
The academic units of the University of Chicago mainly include undergraduate colleges, four graduate schools, six professional colleges, continuing education colleges, affiliated schools, University of Chicago Press, libraries, academic centers, committees and research institutes.
Undergraduate education at the University of Chicago offers bachelor of science and bachelor of arts degrees in 50 majors and 28 minor majors. The educational system lasts for four years, which is roughly divided into five directions: natural science, life science, humanities, social science and new university college (interdisciplinary).
The graduate school of the University of Chicago is divided into four departments, including mathematics, biology, humanities and social sciences.
The University of Chicago has six professional colleges, including Booth Business School, Law School, Seminary, Harris School of Policy, Pritzker School of Medicine and School of Social Service Management.
By the end of 20 17, 97 alumni, teachers and researchers of the University of Chicago have won the Nobel Prize (among them, 6 are current teachers), 9 winners of Fields Prize, the highest prize in mathematics in the world, 4 winners of Turing Prize, 60 academicians of the National Academy of Sciences, the National Academy of Engineering and the National Academy of Medical Sciences, and more than 100 presidents or academic affairs in universities across the United States.
The University of Chicago has established the famous "Chicago School" in many disciplines, including the famous Chicago School of Economics, Chicago School of Sociology, Chicago Institute of Architecture, Chicago Institute of Meteorology, Chicago School of Literature and Film Criticism and Chicago School of Mathematical Analysis.
Since its establishment, the University of Chicago has trained many outstanding talents for the United States and the world in many fields, and many top talents have also gathered in the University of Chicago for research and teaching. Chen Shengshen, a world-class master of mathematics and the father of differential geometry, 1949- 1960 studied and taught at the University of Chicago; Yang Zhenning, a famous Chinese theoretical physicist, 1948 received his Ph.D. in physics from the University of Chicago; Barack obama, the 44th President of the United States, served as a lecturer in Constitution at the University of Chicago Law School in 2004. 1992. McKinsey &; The founder of the company, James McKinsey, is a professor at the Booth School of Business at the University of Chicago.