Northwestern University

Northwestern University is a Big Ten university which has its main campus in Evanston, Illinois, on a 240-acre (970,000 m²) campus along the shore of Lake Michigan. Several of the university's professional schools are located in Chicago, on a 25-acre (101,000 m²) campus near the Magnificent Mile. US News & World Report ranks Northwestern 12th among national doctoral research universities. In addition, the School of Law is consistently ranked in the top ten best by the same publication. Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management consistently ranks as one of the world's best graduate business programs. Though journalism schools are not ranked, Northwestern's Medill School of Journalism is widely regarded as one of the top three journalism schools in the United States. It is always recongnized as Top Ten US college.

History

The university was founded in 1851 by Methodists (including John Evans, after whom Evanston is named) and opened in 1855 with two faculty members and ten students. The University's name, Northwestern, came from its founders' desire to serve citizens of the states that occupied the area of the former Northwest Territory: Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota.

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1851 - Methodists - John Evans - 1855 - Northwest Territory - Ohio - Indiana - Illinois - Michigan - Wisconsin - Minnesota

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Northwestern's school colors are purple and white. (For this reason, the Chicago Transit Authority's elevated train running through Evanston is called the Purple Line. The Purple Line stations that serve Northwestern University are Davis, Foster, Noyes, and Central.) The phrase on Northwestern University's seal is Quaecumque sunt vera -- in Latin, "Whatsoever things are true" from Phillipians 4:8.

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Chicago Transit Authority - Purple Line - Latin

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