Ade Ayoola named one of 49 Knight-Hennessy Scholars at Stanford University

This fall the University of Chicago is welcoming a talented and diverse group of new undergraduate students who are poised to make a positive impact for the College. A common...Read more

It's an annual tradition to give a warm welcome to the incoming class at UChicago. Follow the procession of first-year students as they walk from Rockefeller Chapel to Hull Gate,...Read more

Prof. Robert Rosner to examine impact of discovery on science and scientists

The University of Chicago will launch a new program for graduating College students during the next academic year, continuing efforts to expand meaningful career opportunities for College students. The new...Read more

John W. Boyer, AM’69, PhD’75, has been appointed to a sixth term as dean of the College , continuing an unprecedented 25-year tenure that has brought historic advances for UChicago’s...Read more

Campus North Residential Commons to include Boyer House, named for Dean John W. Boyer and his wife Barbara The Campus North Residential Commons, scheduled to open in fall of 2016,...Read more

Widespread student, faculty interest drives academic path

Gift from Harriet Heyman, AM’72, and Sir Michael Moritz supports Odyssey program

In his keynote talk, Thomas Ricketts, AB’88, MBA’93, advises students to welcome unexpected on career...

James Nondorf, dean of College Admissions and Financial Aid, leads initiative by coalition of 80 colleges to create application that helps ease the process of applying to college

Orientation Week kicks off first-years’ new College adventure

In a sign of the impact from recent efforts to enhance affordability for students attending the College, the number of first-year students at the University of Chicago who took out...Read more

The Spring 2015 College Diploma Ceremony was held on the Main Quadrangle on June 13, 2015. President Robert J. Zimmer offered opening remarks, followed by Provost Eric D. Isaacs' introduction...Read more

Program offers first bachelor’s degree in engineering in University’s history

As a young writer during the late 1920s and 1930s, author Richard Wright was a denizen of Chicago’s “Black Belt,” a narrow strip of South Side neighborhoods that became the...Read more

No Barriers program contributes to growth in diversity; admissions yield tops 60 percent

Three members of the University of Chicago faculty have been elected to the American Philosophical Society , the oldest learned society in the United States. The new members are Glenn...Read more

In the midst of new initiatives to support students and broaden access to a University of Chicago education, the University anticipates an undergraduate financial aid budget of $117 million for...Read more

Alumna Amy Lehman challenges one of UChicago’s most famous myths—that if you step on the bronze seal in the floor of the Reynolds Club, you won’t graduate in four years—before...Read more