Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois. It was founded in 1851 by nine men whose goal was to establish a university that would serve the former Northwest Territory.[5] The university is a founding member of the Big Ten Conference and remains the only private university in the conference.[6] Northwestern is ranked among the top universities in the world by major education publications.[7][8]
The university is composed of eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools, which include the Kellogg School of Management, the Pritzker School of Law, the Feinberg School of Medicine, the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, the Bienen School of Music, the McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, the Medill School of Journalism, the School of Communication, the School of Professional Studies, the School of Education and Social Policy, and The Graduate School.[9] As of Fall 2019, the university has a total of 21,946 enrolled students, including 8,327 undergraduates and 13,619 graduate students.[3]
Valued at $11.1 billion, Northwestern currently possesses the eleventh largest university endowment in the United States.[10] Its numerous research programs bring in nearly $900 million in sponsored research each year.[11][12]
Northwestern’s main 240-acre (97 ha) campus[13] lies along the shores of Lake Michigan in Evanston, 12 miles north of Downtown Chicago. The university’s law, medical, and professional schools, along with its nationally ranked affiliated Northwestern Memorial Hospital, are located on a 25-acre (10 ha) campus in Chicago’s Streeterville neighborhood. In 2008, the university opened a campus in Education City, Doha, Qatar with programs in journalism and communication.[14] In 2016, Northwestern opened a space in San Francisco, California at 44 Montgomery Street, which hosts journalism, engineering, and marketing programs.[15]
As of October 2020, Northwestern’s faculty and alumni have included 1 Fields Medalist, 20 Nobel Prize laureates, 40 Pulitzer Prize winners,[16] 6 MacArthur Fellows,[17] 17 Rhodes Scholars,[18] 27 Marshall Scholars,[19] 23 National Medal of Science winners, 11 National Humanities Medal recipients, 84 members of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences,[20] 10 living billionaires,[21] 16 Olympic medalists, and 2 U.S. Supreme Court Justices.[22] Northwestern alumni have founded notable companies such as The Blackstone Group, Kirkland & Ellis, U.S. Steel, Guggenheim Partners, Accenture, Aon Corporation, AQR Capital, and Booz Allen Hamilton.
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