Northwestern University

Profileuniversity.com - Northwestern University is a private research university located in Evanston, Illinois, USA. The University was founded by John Evans in 1851 to meet the educational needs of communities around the Northwest. Besides having a central campus located in Illinois, USA, known for its university communications programs, engineering and the arts also have satellite Campuses in Chicago and Qatar.

Through college and nine graduate school located on two campuses, including the School of Law, School of Communication, School of Professional Studies, School of Education and Social Policy, Bienen School of Music, the Medill School of Journalism, Kellogg School of Management, Feinberg School of Medicine, McCormick School of Engineering and Applied Science, and the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Northwestern University, offering approximately 150 majors.

As a university with very high research activity, Northwestern has an annual budget of more than $ 1.6 billion, coupled with other studies that have sponsored that reached more than $ 500 million.

The University operates on a quarter system, and students have finals three times a year. And perhaps as a result of the system, "Primal Scream" a university tradition that is practiced by students who normally occur at 09:00 on the night before finals week and students take a break from learning to scream as loud and as hard as they possibly can.

In addition to the tradition of Primal Scream, the university also has several activities that are routinely carried out by members of the university, such as the Armadillo Day celebrations, when a full slate of bands performs on Lakefill around Memorial Day.

Many famous Hollywood actor-artist who is a graduate of Northwestern University, including comedian Stephen Colbert and actor Zach Braff. In fact, one of the world's top models, Cindy Crawford, had studied at Northwestern University to study chemical to get a full scholarship, but even in the end decided to quit college and prefer to be a model.

One of the many organizations active at Northwestern University is a health club. Northwestern University has some of the university's athletic teams are comprised of a team of men and women's teams are known as the "Wildcats". The Northwestern Wildcats play in the NCAA Division I as part of the Big 10 conference.

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