Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was awarded Honorary Degrees by the Northwestern University (1998)

Address: 633 Clark St, Evanston, IL 60208, United States
Phone: +1 847-491-3741
Motto: Quaecumque sunt vera (Latin)
On seal: Ὁ Λόγος πλήρης χάριτος καὶ ἀληθείας (Greek)
Motto in English: "Whatsoever things are true" (Philippians 4:8 AV), "The Word full of grace and truth" (John 1:14)
Type: Private research university
Established: January 28, 1851; 174 years ago
Endowment: $14.3 billion (2024)
Budget: $3.3 billion (2024) (excluding the health system)
Academic staff: 4,018 (fall 2021)
Students: 22,801 (fall 2023)
Undergraduates: 8,846 (fall 2023)
Postgraduates: 13,955 (fall 2023)
Newspaper: The Daily Northwestern
Colors: Purple and white
Nickname: Wildcats
Sporting affiliations: NCAA Division I FBS – Big TenCCFC
Mascot: Willie the Wildcat
Website: https://www.northwestern.edu

A Seal of Northwestern University in USA

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851 to serve the historic Northwest Territory, it is the oldest chartered university in Illinois. The university has its main campus along the shores of Lake Michigan in the Chicago metropolitan area.

Chartered by the Illinois General Assembly in 1851, Northwestern was initially affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church but later became non-sectarian. By 1900, the university was the third-largest university in the United States. Northwestern became a founding member of the Big Ten Conference in 1896 and joined the Association of American Universities in 1917.

Northwestern is composed of eleven undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools which includes Kellogg School of Management, Pritzker School of Law, Medill School of Journalism, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, Feinberg School of Medicine, among others.

As of 2024, the university had an endowment of $15.6 billion, an annual budget of around $3.3 billion, and research funding of over $1 billion. The university fields 19 intercollegiate athletic teams, the Northwestern Wildcats, which compete in the NCAA Division I in the Big Ten Conference.

As of September 2020, 33 Nobel Prize laureates and 2 Fields Medalists were affiliated with Northwestern as alumni or faculty. In addition, Northwestern has been associated with 47 Pulitzer Prize winners, 23 National Medal of Science winners, 11 National Humanities Medal recipients, 23 MacArthur Fellows, 20 Rhodes Scholars, and 28 Marshall Scholars. Northwestern alumni also include 10 living billionaires, 2 U.S. Supreme Court Justices, and 25 Olympic medalists.

 

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