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Enrolling more than 24,000 students in over 250 graduate and undergraduate programs, DePaul is the eighth-largest private and largest Catholic university in the country. Highly ranked by U.S. News & World Report for its business, law and community-based service learning programs, DePaul also has been recognized for its economic value, student satisfaction and diversity, beautiful urban campus and excellent town-gown relations. DePaul is among the nation's top 100 universities in awarding degrees to students of color; about 30 percent of each year's freshmen are first-generation students. In 2007, DePaul's faculty was recognized as having the highest scholarly productivity in the country among universities with less than 15 doctoral programs.  

With Chicago as a classroom, DePaul embodies the vitality and vision of the city in which we work and learn.

  • DePaul encourages faculty to find their voices

    The way J. Harry Wray figures it, his popular Biking and Politics class wouldn't exist if he taught somewhere else.

  • One professor, four Fulbrights:

    Ellen J. Benjamin tops a very special international "Wanted" list. The DePaul University associate professor was selected to share her expertise on the nonprofit world through the prestigious Fulbright program four times, exporting her vast knowledge of the charitable sector to far-flung locales across the globe while importing diverse perspectives to her students back in the States.

  • Students balance mission and quality commitments

    DePaul University's success in enrolling Chicago Public School (CPS) students who graduate from its International Baccalaureate (IB) program has offered one solution to a conundrum universities across the country are facing: how to balance an access agenda with a desire to enroll students who can succeed in a college curriculum.

  • Real-world strategies for lawyers

    The College of Law's Litigation Laboratory is the brainchild of Michael Panter, recently appointed associate judge of the Circuit Court of Cook County.  An experienced trial lawyer and a 1978 graduate of the law school, Panter designed and launched the class in 2008 while serving as an instructor in the Law School to reach beyond legal theory and allow lawyers and law students to collaborate on a live case.

  • Block-by-block research in Pilsen

    A building-by-building, block-by-block inventory of the community of some 44,000 residents three miles southwest of the Loop by students of geography professors Euan Hague and Winifred Curran has been much more than an academic exercise. The research has been an invaluable tool for the neighborhood in its struggle against city hall and the developers that often buy quaint, century-old cottages and raze them in favor of multistory luxury condominiums.