Founded 1890 by oil magnate and philanthropist John D. Rockefeller, the University of Chicago, a private, coeducational research university, is in Hyde Park on the city's South Side. In addition to its undergraduate college, which offers 49 undergraduate majors and 24 minors, the University of Chicago has four graduate divisions; six graduate professional schools that include the University of Chicago Law School, the Booth School of Business and the Pritzker School of Medicine; and the Graham School of General Studies for continuing education students. The university established the country's first Executive MBA program, and 13 of its faculty received Nobel Prizes between 1979 and 2009.
The University of Chicago
5801 S. Ellis Ave.
Chicago, IL‎ 60637
773-702-1234‎
uchicago.edu
Loyola University Chicago is a private Jesuit university founded in 1870 as St. Ignatius College. It is one of 28 Jesuit institutions of higher learning in the U.S. and the largest. It has four campuses: three in the greater Chicago area and a fourth in Italy called the John Felice Rome Center. It also acts as the U.S. host university to the Beijing Center for Chinese Studies in Beijing, China. Loyola is home to 70 undergraduate majors and 140 graduate programs.
Loyola University Chicago
1032 W. Sheridan Road
Chicago, IL 60660
773-274-3000
luc.edu
Chicago State University, a public school, is older than the other two institutions, founded in 1867 on the South Side as a teacher training school when it was the Cook County Normal School. Today, its expansive curriculum comprises seven colleges: Arts and Sciences, Business, Education, Health Sciences, Continuing Education and Non-Traditional Programs, Graduate and Professional Studies, and Pharmacy. Altogether, they offer more than 100 undergraduate and graduate programs.
Chicago State University
9501 S. King Drive
Chicago, IL 60628
773-995-2000
csu.edu