UChicago Campus Information & Services

The University of Chicago one of the world’s great intellectual communities. It is an environment of vigorous cross-disciplinary debate and open inquiry helps students acquire the intellectual tools to succeed in an increasingly complex and challenging world. A magnet for the world’s best scholars, teachers, and students, Chicago has made major contributions to knowledge and has created many new fields of study. A deep commitment to diversity is central to our mission of discovery. 

Students are able to make use of the rich course offerings throughout the University. In addition to taking courses at the University of Chicago Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice from faculty trained across multiple disciplines, students take courses in the departments and schools of law, business, public policy, anthropology, sociology, psychiatry and others. This is a university in which such a cross-walk between disciplines and departments is fluid, actively encouraged, and easily accomplished.

The University boasts one of the largest research libraries in the country, seven professional graduate schools, two museums, a professional theater and art gallery, ministries of all faiths, and a remarkable diversity of community-service groups. All of the University’s riches are available to Crown Family School students. The 211-acre campus—an official botanic garden—stretches along both sides of the Midway Plaisance, which was used for the World’s Columbian Exposition of 1893 and is now home to a skating rink, gardens, soccer fields, and intramural sports teams.

The state-of-the-art Ratner Athletics Center features health-club facilities and an Olympic-size pool. Architecture buffs can explore the neo-Gothic buildings of the main quads and the Crown Family School’s own home, Edith Abbott Hall, was designed by Mies van der Rohe. The University and Crown Family School regularly host inspiring and thought-provoking lectures, readings, and panels by activists, authors, politicians, and academics from around the world. The student groups at Crown Family School, along with the numerous student organizations within the University, keep our School vibrant, informed, and involved.

The links below lead to information and services for all University of Chicago students. These services are operated by central university departments, not by the Crown Family School.