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North Park University

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Address

3225 W. Foster Avenue
Chicago, IL 60625-4895

Website

http://www.northpark.edu

Admissions E-mail

admissions@northpark.edu

School Mission

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North Park University prepares students for lives of significance and service as an intentionally Christian University. We offer an education that is profound and practical, is rooted in the Christian tradition, balances freedom and disciplined responsibility, focuses on the important, and is formational and transformational of the whole person. We call this a Covenant education and it is built around ten 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 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 tier graduate programs following college. The campus is located on a beautiful park-like 30 acre campus in a vibrant 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 multi-cultural university, welcoming undergraduate students from 40 states and 25 countries. 64% of the student body is cacausian, 4% international, 9% African American, 8% Latino, 7% Asian 1% Native American, and 7% other. The socio-economic composition of the student body is also diverse as is 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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