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Enrolling more than 24,000 students in over 250 graduate and undergraduate programs, DePaul is the eighth-largest private and largest Catholic university in the country. Highly ranked by U.S. News & World Report for its business, law and community-based service learning programs, DePaul also has been recognized for its economic value, student satisfaction and diversity, beautiful urban campus and excellent town-gown relations. DePaul is among the nation's top 100 universities in awarding degrees to students of color; about 30 percent of each year's freshmen are first-generation students. In 2007, DePaul's faculty was recognized as having the highest scholarly productivity in the country among universities with less than 15 doctoral programs.  

With Chicago as a classroom, DePaul embodies the vitality and vision of the city in which we work and learn.

  • DePaul school counselors change lives

    DePaul’s graduate school counseling program is the first in Illinois (and only the 24th in the nation) to affiliate with The Education Trust’s National Center for Transformative School Counseling Initiative, a distinction that brings national recognition to the program. The initiative aims to transform school counselors into powerful agents of change who can help close the gaps in opportunity and achievement for low-income students and students of color.

  • Research with real-world impact

    Dorothy Kozlowski has spent two years of funding from the Department of Defense to discover better rehabilitation protocols for cases of traumatic brain injury. The research addresses treatment-critical questions: Which rehabilitation strategies work, in what combinations? What’s the optimal order and timing of the strategies? How much, how soon? How might rehabilitation be combined with drug therapy to yield better results? “This research is breaking new ground,” she says.

  • Educating socially engaged leaders

    U.S. News & World Report consistently names DePaul’s service-learning program among the nation’s best. The Irwin W. Steans Center for Community-based Service Learning is the reason why. As a model of service learning delivery, the Center stands out for three reasons: its structure; its support of the Community Service Studies program; and the depth, breadth, and duration of its community partnerships.

  • Smart Jocks

    DePaul student-athletes bring their "A" game to the classroom. Five DePaul teams had the top GPA in the Big East. Sixty-nine percent of DePaul student-athletes were named to the Big East All-Academic Team.

  • We Got Game

    DePaul students were winners at the 2011 Independent Games Festival with OCTODAD, a PC game about “destruction, deception, and fatherhood.” The game also received an honorable mention from Indiegames.com (“Best of 2010: Top Indie Games") and was named “Funniest Video Game of 2010" by Splitsider.com. Last year, a DePaul student game, Devil’s Tuning Fork, was also an IGF Student Showcase winner.

  • Urban Agriculture comes to DePaul

    In a new service-learning class, students participate in an interactive, hands-on study of urban food production by becoming farmers at Eden Place, a 3.5 acre nature center and oasis in the heart of an impoverished community in Chicago. The students are learning a comprehensive approach to sustainable urban agriculture.