About University of Chicago:

The University of Chicago is a private, non-profit research university in Chicago, Illinois.The university is composed of the College, various graduate programs and interdisciplinary committees organized into five academic research divisions and seven professional schools. Beyond the arts and sciences, Chicago is also well known for its professional schools, which include the Pritzker School of Medicine, the Booth School of Business, the Law School, the School of Social Service Administration, the Harris School of Public Policy Studies, the Divinity School and the Graham School of Continuing Liberal and Professional Studies. The university currently enrolls 5,971 undergraduate students, and 16,016 students overall. University of Chicago scholars have played a major role in the development of many academic disciplines, including sociology, law, economics, literary criticism, religion and the behavioralism school of political science. Chicago's physics department and the Met Lab helped develop the world's first man-made, self-sustaining nuclear reaction (Chicago Pile-1) beneath the viewing stands of university's Stagg Field, a key part of the classified Manhattan Project effort of World War II. The university research efforts include administration of Fermi National Accelerator Laboratory and Argonne National Laboratory, as well as the Marine Biological Laboratory. The university is also home to the University of Chicago Press, the largest university press in the United States With an estimated completion date of 2021, the Barack Obama Presidential Center will be housed at the university and include both the Obama presidential library and offices of the Obama Foundation.The University of Chicago has many prominent alumni, faculty members and researchers. 97 Nobel laureates have been affiliated with the university as professors, students, faculty, or staff, making it a university with one of the highest concentrations of Nobel laureates in the world. Similarly, 34 faculty members and 17 alumni have been awarded the MacArthur "Genius Grant". In addition, Chicago's alumni and faculty include 53 Rhodes Scholars, 25 Marshall Scholars, 9 Fields Medalists, 4 Turing Award Winners, 24 Pulitzer Prize winners, 20 National Humanities Medalists, 16 billionaire graduates and a plethora of members of the United States Congress and heads of state of countries all over the world.



World University Rankings

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World University Rankings - - - - - - - - - - 20 20 22 24 31 28 42 52 46

By Fields

Field 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Agriculture 103 167 144 126 - 180 100 108 136 158 170 168 189 242 228 285 301-350 351-400
Engineering 68 219 - 251 226 212 34 33 41 44 50 53 52 54 55 61 70 85
Life Sciences 32 34 45 44 47 42 46 45 44 42 45 43 50 56 54 74 83 71
Medicine 43 39 43 47 42 49 47 52 54 54 54 54 70 72 85 85 81 84
Natural Sciences 11 31 28 28 41 35 7 6 6 7 8 10 13 13 14 16 25 26
Social Sciences 7 9 12 14 15 13 23 20 21 17 18 22 30 29 21 32 41 43

By Subjects

Subject 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 2021 2022 2023 2024 2025
Agricultural Sciences - - - - 297 - 301-350 301-350 250 301-350 301-350 279 146 141 158
Biology & Biochemistry - - - - - - - - 32 38 44 54 71 72 62
Chemistry 94 109 114 18 18 20 19 17 16 22 21 19 36 35 43
Chemical Engineering - - - 39 45 37 50 61 52 49 100 95 30 24 34
Civil Engineering - - - 148 224 237 263 265 262 216 - 297 195 110 120
Clinical Medicine - - - - - - - - 55 70 76 85 77 77 83
Computer Science 100 94 100 85 85 101 136 164 165 239 301-350 293 103 75 90
Economics & Business - - - - - - - - 5 7 5 4 3 3 6
Electrical Engineering 135 148 196 84 96 113 122 97 98 97 144 171 53 59 65
Environment / Ecology 118 181 168 68 80 110 119 123 136 156 182 147 224 255 301-350
Geosciences 113 124 126 81 81 87 85 92 115 118 132 165 202 257 247
Immunology - - - - - - - - 69 72 76 64 91 81 80
Materials Science 231 188 200 27 19 21 25 27 28 31 32 28 42 34 44
Mathematics 14 20 17 14 20 14 15 19 18 25 34 33 28 31 40
Mechanical Engineering 267 271 - 88 92 127 122 173 157 183 202 181 72 70 74
Microbiology - - - - - - - - 44 50 66 48 75 73 62
Molecular Biology & Genetics - - - - - - - - 31 40 46 48 55 62 56
Neuroscience & Behavior - - - - - - - - 106 122 112 128 145 156 159
Pharmacology & Toxicolog - 165 144 114 122 137 139 119 145 156 171 231 259 252 243
Physics 19 24 22 3 4 4 4 5 3 4 4 5 13 17 17
Plant & Animal Science 164 131 177 150 140 139 198 222 235 224 288 259 - - 401-450
Psychiatry / Psychology - - - - - - - - 58 68 64 72 73 74 89
Social Sciences, General - - - - - - - - 54 59 67 76 81 97 95
Space Science - - - - - - - - 18 18 16 13 18 28 25
Energy Science & Engineering - - - - - - - - - - 27 19 13 - 31
Environmental Science & Engineering - - - - - - - - - - 132 145 50 - -
Biomedical Engineering - - - - - - - - - - - - - 136 144