UChicago
Education & Academia abbreviation · University
| Stands for | University of Chicago |
|---|---|
| Categories | Education & Academia |
UChicago stands for University of Chicago, a university abbreviation.
Private research university on Chicago's South Side, founded in 1890 with funding from John D. Rockefeller, and associated with more than 100 Nobel laureates. Enrico Fermi's team achieved the first controlled nuclear chain reaction beneath its football stands in 1942.
Example: Her UChicago supplemental essay responded to one of the school's famously quirky prompts.
Usage notes
The university's own branding uses "UChicago" to avoid ambiguity with the many schools called UC. It is closely associated with the Chicago school of economics and its Core curriculum. Its students have long joked that it is "where fun goes to die".
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- UC – University of California
- UCB – University of California, Berkeley
- UCD – University of California, Davis
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- UCI – University of California, Irvine
- UCL – University College London
- UCLA – University of California, Los Angeles
- UConn – University of Connecticut
- UCR – University of California, Riverside
- UCSB – University of California, Santa Barbara