Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university in Evanston, Illinois, United States. Established in 1851, it is the oldest chartered university in Illinois. Northwestern was initially affiliated with the Methodist Episcopal Church but later became non-sectarian. It became a founding member of the Big Ten Conference in 1896 and joined the Association of American Universities in 1917. It is composed of eleven undergraduate, graduate and professional schools in the fields of management, law, journalism, engineering, medicine and others, and as of 2024 it had an endowment of 15.6 billion dollars, an annual budget of around 3.3 billion dollars and research funding of over 1 billion dollars.