The School of Education offers a unique program for professionals who are changing careers and want to become educators. The DePaul/Glenview Teacher Program is a three-year master's degree program, and has helped more than 70 new teachers.

Our MBA Career Management Center offers career consulting, seminars, networking events and job posting services.

This year's freshman class of 2007 consists of 2,522 students.

In 2005, The Theatre School alumni worked in more than 140 theatres in the Chicago area.

The School for New Learning (SNL) was created in 1972 to serve the learning needs of adult students.

At DePaul, 98 percent of our classes are taught by professors rather than teaching assistants.

Eighty-eight percent of full-time DePaul faculty members hold a doctorate or the highest degree available in their fields.

There are six DePaul campuses in the Chicago area - Lincoln Park, Loop, Naperville, Oak Forest, O'Hare and Rolling Meadows.

In 2001, the DePaul Opera Theatre presented the U.S. premiere of a Philip Glass opera.

DePaul graduates earn three percent to 10 percent above the national average, according to the National Association of Colleges and Employers.

The softball team made its 11th NCAA tournament appearance in the past 12 years after winning their fourth consecutive C-USA tournament title.

U.S.News & World Report ranked the College of Law's health law program 14th and its intellectual property program 11th in 2008.

Based upon fall 2006 data, starting salaries of DePaul's College of Commerce graduates were nearly 15 percent above the national average.

Working in concert with the Chicago Public Schools and the Archdiocese of Chicago, the School of Education has established Professional Development Schools, a novel educational concept designed to enhance prekindergarten-12th grade education while providing a creative environment for teacher training and professional faculty development.

More than 40 percent of all graduate students studying computer science in Illinois attend DePaul.

DePaul's alumni network is over 130,000 worldwide and more than 82,000 live and work in the metropolitan Chicago area.

Money magazine ranks DePaul among the top 10 values for the dollar in higher education.

The School of Music has produced more than 3,000 graduates. Musical artists who have studied at DePaul include Pulitzer Prize-winning composer George Perle, Chicago Symphony Orchestra concertmaster Samuel Magad, Chicago Children's Choir Artistic Director Josephine Lee, Metropolitan Opera baritone Stephen Powell, jazz artists Brian Culbertson and Joe Vito, members of the rock group Chicago, the late commercial music pioneer Dick Marx and Arlington Race Track bugler/ trumpet performer Bonny Brown.



The School for New Learning has a Chronic Illness Initiative that is designed to help students who have had difficulty attending traditional programs because of recurring illness.


The Theatre School was founded as the Goodman School of Drama in 1925 and is the Midwest's oldest theatre training conservatory.

DePaul's motto is "I will show you the way of wisdom."

Each spring, on Vincentian Service Day, over 1,000 students, faculty, staff and alumni perform more than 4,000 hours of community service - all in one afternoon.

The School for New Learning (SNL) admits adult learners who wish to pursue a customized degree on a part-time or full-time basis.



A total of 54 percent of DePaul students are women, and 26 percent are students of color.

In the magazine's 2009 rankings, U.S.News & World Report placed DePaul University’s part-time Master of Business Administration (MBA) program sixth in the nation in March 2008.

DePaul is one of three colleges with students living at the University Center of Chicago, the nation's largest multicollege residence hall.



The School of Music presents more than 300 public performances in a variety of musical styles each year at the DePaul Concert Hall and Recital Hall in Lincoln Park, DePaul's Merle Reskin Theatre in the South Loop, and Orchestra Hall at Symphony Center.

DePaul was founded in 1898 and is named for a 17th-century French priest, St. Vincent de Paul.

In 1999 and 2003, the Princeton Review ranked DePaul students as "the happiest in the nation."

In 2007, Entrepreneur magazine ranked DePaul's undergraduate program seventh and graduate program fifth, among the nation's top entrepreneurship programs.

For the 2007-2008 school year, approximately $308 million in financial aid grants, scholarships, loans and work study opportunities were awarded to nearly 76 percent of all students.


DePaul is one of the "Schools with the Most Beautiful Campus in an Urban Setting" according to Kaplan Publishing's The Unofficial, Unbiased, Insider's Guide To The 328 Most Interesting Colleges.

Our intercollegiate athletic teams compete in National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA ) Division I, Big East Conference.

In July 2008, DePaul was ranked No. 1 in the nation in the “Great College Town” category by the Princeton Review’s annual college rankings. The new ranking marks the sixth consecutive year the university has made the nation’s top 20 according to the survey, and DePaul was the only Midwest university among this year’s honorees in the category.

DePaul is the ninth largest private, not-for-profit university in the nation.


The College of Commerce was the first business school in downtown Chicago.

Nearly 30 percent of our incoming freshmen are from the first generation in their family to attend college.

The Princeton Review, in its annual survey of the best colleges and universities in the United States, ranked DePaul No. 10 in the nation in the "Diverse Student Population" category.

Our Career Center was recently praised by The New York Times for its career opportunities available to students and graduates.

In March 2005, DePaul was recognized as one of the country's best universities for fostering social responsibility and public service.



International students and faculty members from our College of Computing and Digital Media represent 78 different countries.

The School of Music was named as one of the "Schools That Rock" in the 2005 Rolling Stone guidebook that evaluated collegiate music schools nationally.

DePaul is the largest Catholic university in the United States.

The Rev. Dennis H. Holtschneider, C.M., became DePaul's 11th president in 2004.

Class sizes are small — 97 percent of all classes have fewer than 40 students.

Current enrollment for fall 2007 is 23,401 students.

Over the past six years, more than half of DePaul's athletic teams have represented the Blue Demons in NCAA postseason tournament play.



The College of Law was one of the first law schools in Illinois to admit Jewish and women students.

We have wireless internet access on all campuses.

The five most popular undergraduate majors in fall of 2007 were: communications, psychology, accounting, finance and political science.

More than 100 DePaul students participate annually in an "Alternative Spring Break," in which they travel to urban and rural areas and assist local community service organizations.



The College of Liberal Arts and Sciences (LA&S) is the oldest and largest college at DePaul, with 431 full-time faculty in more than 32 undergraduate and 26 graduate degree programs.

In 2005, DePaul had a 92 percent job placement rate for those with a baccalaureate degrees, and a 93 percent job placement rate for those with master's or professional degrees.

DePaul offers more than 200 undergraduate and graduate programs of study.

Our student-to-faculty ratio is 16:1.

Students can take advantage of Study Abroad opportunities in 29 countries, including Japan, Italy and Morocco.

A total of 1,341 new undergraduate transfer students enrolled in fall 2007.

For the sixth consecutive year, DePaul's service learning program was honored by U.S.News & World Report in its “America’s Best Colleges 2009” edition of the nation's top 25 service learning programs. The publication sought out "schools with outstanding examples of academic programs that are believed to lead to student success." DePaul was the only Illinois university honored for service learning.

DePaul's College of Law was among the first law schools to introduce such educational innovations as the study of negotiation techniques, courses in international criminal law and pre-trial courses in skills techniques.

During the 2004-05 athletic year, the DePaul women's basketball team, which reached the highest national ranking in the program's history (11th), made its third consecutive NCAA tournament appearance and reached the second round for the second straight year. DePaul's master's level enrollment is the largest in the state of Illinois.

In 2007, the five most popular DePaul graduate degree concentrations were computer science, elementary education, information systems, finance and business.

There are more than 200 student organizations at DePaul.

Students can enroll in evening, day and weekend classes at several campus locations, as well as online.

Benefiting from the school's strong connection to Chicago's vibrant music community, many School of Music students gain experience by performing with the Civic Orchestra of Chicago, Lyric Opera and Chicago Symphony Orchestra choruses and Grant Park Orchestra or intern with the city's professional recording studios.