University of Chicago

Chicago IL. Privately endowed research university. $10.9B endowment. 100+ Nobel laureates in faculty/alumni — most in economics (Chicago School). CS Dept: #1 quantum computing university in US (Nature Index July 2025). $100M from IBM + $50M from Google for quantum research. Manages Argonne National Laboratory (already in DB as ANL). Polsky Center: ranked top US startup accelerator — spawned Grubhub, Braintree, Simple Mills. Booth School of Business: 9 Nobel laureates. Medical campus: Pritzker School of Medicine + UChicago Medicine (NCI-designated cancer center). 2024 Nobel in Economics: James Robinson (global inequality research). President: Paul Alivisatos (2022, nanoscience pioneer).