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unitid 144050 · Chicago, IL · private nonprofit 4-year · city (large)

University of Chicago

Private university in Chicago, Illinois, US

founded
1890
enrollment 2023
21,578
predominant degree
Bachelor's
motto
“crescat scientia vita excolatur”
Campus of University of Chicago

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The University of Chicago is a private research university in the Hyde Park community area of Chicago, Illinois, United States. wikipedia rev 1363654999 ↗

scorecard 2026-06 · percentiles within private nonprofit 4-years

The record

admission rate

4%

1st pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

undergraduates

7,569

97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

Pell share

15%

undergrads on Pell grants

12th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

completion

96%

finish within 150% time

97th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

sticker cost / yr

$90,360

100th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

avg net price / yr

$14,860

after aid, aided students

19th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

median earnings, 10 yr

$91,885

after entry, Title IV students

96th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

median grad debt

$15,000

10th pctl among private nonprofit 4-years

what families actually pay

Cost

Sticker price is a fiction for most families — net price is what aided students pay after grants, by family income.

Average net price by family income, 2023–24 aid cohort

Families earning under $30k paid $-1,264 per year after aid.

Dashed hollow marks are privacy-suppressed brackets — not zero. Band: middle half of private nonprofit 4-years (all incomes).

Who enrolls, by family income

family income mix not reported

Median family income
$47,140
First-generation students
20%
In-state tuition & fees
$70,662

earnings · debt · programs

Outcomes

Median earnings after entry, working grads with federal aid

Ten years out, the median graduate earns 6.1× the median graduate debt.

Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only.

What programs pay — top fields of study

programgradsearn 5 yrdebt
Management Sciences and Quantitative Methods.1,236——
Social Sciences, General.706$69,143—
Economics.622$157,181$13,197
Data Analytics.251——
Applied Mathematics.228——
Computer Science.217$151,585—
Law.213$308,354—
Social Work.187$69,739—
Mathematics.181$146,679$12,000
Computer Systems Analysis.164——
Computer Science.156$227,147—
Finance and Financial Management Services.147——

— is privacy suppression at small programs, never zero. Earnings are median, 5 years after completing.

annual scorecard files, 1996–2026

Trajectory

Line breaks are years where the measure wasn't collected — a gap is not a zero.

Admission rate

Price per year

  • sticker
  • net

Median earnings, 10 yrs after entry

Undergraduates

wikidata · 9,999 people recorded

Memory

Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.

Field fingerprint — share of recorded alumni by field

Women among recorded alumni, by birth decade

People without a recorded gender are excluded; decades with fewer than 5 recorded alumni are dropped.

Wikipedia attention

monthly article views since 2015

most recorded occupationsresearcher (2,048) · university teacher (2,048) · economist (654) · writer (569) · mathematician (544) · historian (410) · politician (312) · physicist (304)

Nobel laureates who studied here

  • Robert Andrews Millikan Physics 1923
  • Arthur Holly Compton Physics 1927
  • Clinton Davisson Physics 1937
  • Ernest Lawrence Physics 1939
  • Emily Greene Balch Peace 1946
  • Tsung-Dao Lee Physics 1957
  • Chen-ning Yang Physics 1957
  • Edward Lawrie Tatum Medicine 1958
  • Owen Chamberlain Physics 1959
  • James Watson Medicine 1962
  • Robert S. Mulliken Chemistry 1966
  • Luis Walter Alvarez Physics 1968
  • Paul Samuelson Economics 1970
  • Saul Bellow Literature 1976
  • Milton Friedman Economics 1976
  • Herbert Simon Economics 1978
  • Herbert C. Brown Chemistry 1979
  • James Cronin Physics 1980
  • Roger Sperry Medicine 1981
  • George Stigler Economics 1982
  • James M. Buchanan Economics 1986
  • Jack Steinberger Physics 1988
  • Harry Markowitz Economics 1990
  • Jerome Isaac Friedman Physics 1990
  • Gary S. Becker Economics 1992
  • F. Sherwood Rowland Chemistry 1995
  • Robert Lucas Economics 1995
  • Richard Smalley Chemistry 1996
  • Myron Scholes Economics 1997
  • Daniel C. Tsui Physics 1998
  • Joseph E. Stiglitz Economics 2001
  • Irwin Rose Chemistry 2004
  • Frank Wilczek Physics 2004
  • Leonid Hurwicz Economics 2007
  • George E. Smith Physics 2009
  • Eugene Fama Economics 2013
  • Paul M. Romer Economics 2018
  • John B. Goodenough Chemistry 2019
  • Claudia Goldin Economics 2023
  • Moungi Bawendi Chemistry 2023
  • John Michael Jumper Chemistry 2024

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Provenance

  • U.S. Dept. of Education College Scorecard, 2026-06 release. Earnings cover federally aided (Title IV) students only. Suppressed values are null, never imputed.
  • Annual Scorecard files 1996-2026. A null in early years usually means the measure was not yet collected, not zero.
  • Coordinates and locale describe the campus address, not where students live.
  • Wikidata is not an alumni census: a person appears only when volunteer editors record them. Counts measure the archive's memory - access x achievement x documentation - never placement rates or institutional quality.
  • Images are from Wikimedia Commons under free licenses. Render the credit line (artist + license) with every image.
  • Lead text from Wikipedia (revision 1363654999), CC BY-SA 4.0.