"The Arch," the main entrance to Northwestern's Evanston campus Northwestern University is a private university seated in Evanston, Illinois, on a 240 acre (970,000 m²) campus along the shores of Lake Michigan. The university's professional schools are located in Chicago, on a 25 acre (101,000 m²) campus near the Magnificent Mile.
The university was founded in 1851 by methodists and opened in 1855. The University's name, Northwestern, came from its founders' desire to serve the citizens of the United States' newly acquired Northwest Territory.
Northwestern University enrolls approximately 17,000 students and employs nearly 6,800 faculty and staff members.
Admission into Northwestern's undergraduate college is highly selective, with an admissions rate of 27%, a median SAT score of 1394 and a median ACT score of 31. The graduate programs are also highly selective
Northwestern's athletic teams are nicknamed the Wildcats. Before 1924, they were known as "The Purple" and unofficially as "The Fighting Methodists". Northwestern University is a private member of the Big Ten Conference for athletics.
Northwestern University's official color is purple. (For this reason, the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated train running through Evanston is called the Purple Line. (The Purple Line stations that serve Northwestern University are Davis, Foster, and Noyes.) The phrase on Northwestern University's seal is "Quaecumque sunt vera" -- in Latin, "Whatsoever things are true."
Northwestern University's newspaper is The Daily Northwestern; its radio station is WNUR 89.3 FM.
Schools and colleges
- Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences (founded 1851)
- School of Communication (1878)
- School of Continuing Studies (1933)
- School of Education and Social Policy (1926)
- Robert R. McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science (1909)
- Graduate School (1910)
- Medill School of Journalism (1921)
- School of Law (1859)
- J. L. Kellogg School of Management (1908)
- Feinberg School of Medicine (1859)
- School of Music (1859)
- Dental School (1891-2001)
Notable alumni
- Saul Bellow, author and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature.
- Rod Blagojevich, Governor of Illinois
- William Jennings Bryan, politician
- Salem Chalabi, General Director of the Iraqi Special Tribunal*
- Dick Gephardt, outgoing House minority leader
- Otto Graham, athlete
- Howard Hanson, composer
- Sheldon Harnick, lyricist (Fiddler on the Roof)
- Charles H. Mayo, doctor (Mayo Clinic)
- George McGovern, South Dakota Senator and 1972 Democratic candidate for president.
- John Paul Stevens, U.S. Supreme Court justice
- Adlai Stevenson, politician
- Harold Washington, first black Chicago mayor
Actors and other celebrities
- Warren Beatty, actor
- Zach Braff, actor, director, screenwriter (Scrubs, Garden State)
- Stephen Colbert, actor, comedian (The Daily Show)
- Cindy Crawford, model (never graduated)
- Stephanie D'Abruzzo, actor, puppeteer (Avenue Q)
- Ana Gasteyer, actor, comedian (Saturday Night Live)
- Marg Helgenberger, actor (CSI: Crime Scene Investigation)
- Charlton Heston, actor
- Laura Innes, actor (ER)
- Cloris Leachman, actor (The Facts of Life)
- Shelley Long, actor, (Cheers)
- Julia Louis-Dreyfus, actor (Seinfeld)
- Ann-Margret Olsson, actor (never matriculated)
- Garry Marshall, director, producer
- Todd Martin, Professional Tennis Player
- Brent Musburger, sports announcer, (American_Broadcasting_Company)
- Charlotte Rae, actor (The Facts of Life)
- Jeri Ryan, actress ( Boston Public, Star Trek: Voyager)
- David Schwimmer, actor (Friends)
- Katherine Shindle, Miss America 1998
- Jerry Springer, host of The Jerry Springer Show, former mayor of Cincinnati
- Nicole Sullivan, actor (MAD TV)
- Michael Wilbon, ESPN analyst (Pardon the Interruption)
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