The University of Chicago describes itself as an urban research university and dates its work to 1890. Its main campus is on Chicago’s South Side, and it lists seven international campuses and centres. The undergraduate College offers 53 majors and 47 minors; graduate study is organised in four divisions and seven professional schools. The university reports 7,540 undergraduates and 10,518 graduate students, without a date.
Outside the US it lists a campus in Hong Kong housing Chicago Booth’s Executive MBA Program Asia, a Chicago Booth campus in London, centres in Beijing, Delhi and Paris, and Chicago House in Egypt. Paul Alivisatos became the 14th president on 1 September 2021.