The University of Chicago, located in Chicago, the international financial center of the United States, is one of the most prestigious universities in the world. In 20 15, ARWU ranked ninth in academic ranking of world universities world, and in 20 15, it ranked 18 in the ranking of universities in QS, Times and American News World. Many Chicago schools focusing on humanities and social sciences, such as "Enocomics Chicago School", were born here, and have emerged from about 40% of the world's Nobel Prize winners in economics and become one of the centers of world economic research. Since the Manhattan Project, a large number of scientists have gathered here, established the world's first controllable nuclear reactor ("Chicago No.1 Reactor", Chicago Reactor-1) and successfully opened the era of human atomic energy, founded the first national laboratory in the United States-Argonne National Laboratory and later the famous Fermilab, thus establishing the important position of the University of Chicago in the field of natural science.

The University of Chicago was founded in 1890 by john rockefeller, an oil magnate, and is famous for its numerous Nobel Prize winners. According to official university data, as of 2015 * *, a total of 89 nobel prize winners are working or studying at the university of Chicago, ahead of MIT (84), Columbia university (82), Oxford university (5 1) and other universities. Chinese Nobel laureates Yang Zhenning, Li Zhengdao and Cui Qi all received their PhDs in physics from the University of Chicago, and Li Yuanzhe was a chemistry professor at the University of Chicago. In addition, 9 Fields Prizes (the highest prize in mathematics in the world), 4 Turing Prizes (the highest prize in computer science in the world) and 22 Pulitzer Prize winners are working or studying at the University of Chicago.