North Park University
Work 3225 W. Foster Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4895
Work(773) 244-5500
Admissions E-mail: admissions@northpark.edu
Web site: http://www.northpark.edu
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Tier 1
College Category:
Universities-Master's (Midwest)
Universities-Master's (Midwest)
Overview : North Park University
| General Information | |
|---|---|
| Institutional Control: | Private |
| Year founded: | 1891 |
| Religious affiliation: | Evangelical Covenant Church |
| Academic calendar: | semester |
| Total number of undergraduates: | 2,263 |
| Setting: | urban |
| Endowment: | $60,032,252 |
| Fall Admissions | |
| Application deadline: | 6/1 |
| Application fee: | $40 |
| Fall 2008 Acceptance rate: | 70.8% |
| Selectivity: | selective |
| Expenses | |
| Costs: | 2009-2010 Tuition and Fees: $18,800 |
| Mission | |
| School mission: | The mission of North Park University is to prepare students for lives of significance and service. North Park offers a distinctively Christian, intentionally urban, and purposefully multicultural educational experience. Thirty years ago the institution declined an offer to relocate to the far north suburbs of Chicago, deciding instead to stay, invest, and take advantage of a unique urban setting. The multicultural nature of our neighborhood is reflected in the student body and the nature of the educational experience at North Park. Rooted in the Christian tradition, the educational North Park offers is both profound and practical, balances freedom and disciplined responsibility, focuses on the important, and is formational and transformational of the whole person. The core curriculum is built around some of the great questions of life, including: Who am I? to What is Justice? What is true? What is a life of significance? Who is my Neighbor? and more. North Park students develop into men and women with a passion to contribute to the common good of the planet in wide ranging careers in business, health care, government, education and the non-profit sector, including Christian ministries and the church. Students who are successful at North Park are regularly admitted into top graduate programs both immediately following college as well as within three to five years of graduation. The campus is located on a beautiful park-like 30 acre campus in a vibrant and culturally diverse Chicago neighborhood. Four bus routes border the campus and the Brown Line of the train system stops just two blocks away. A student owned automobile is not necessary. Four residence halls (two men and two women) house 600 students and another 525 students are housed in school owned houses and apartments on the campus. North Park is a complexly diverse university, welcoming undergraduate students from 40 states and 30 countries. Diversity is evidenced in terms of socio-economic factors, race and ethnicity, and the faith background of students. Approximately 30 undergraduate majors and minors are supplemented by another twenty special programs and pre-professional programs. |
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