UChicago VS Northwestern: Chicagoland's Best Universities Compared

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  • Опубликовано: 13 янв 2025

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  • @ChicagoGeographer
    @ChicagoGeographer  4 года назад +22

    Hey everyone! Thanks for watching the video. I'd appreciate it if you subscribed-I upload videos about universities, cities, geography, and more every two weeks! Also if you're a UChicago student, see if you can find me on campus this fall. :)

    • @39special88
      @39special88 3 года назад

      Your content rocks! I'll keep an eye out for you. Make sure to shill your channel more so that you get known as "the UChicago youtuber", because the people who hold/previously held that are leagues below you (to put it nicely).

  • @tuowl0564
    @tuowl0564 4 года назад +220

    The fact the the two institutions considered merging in 1933/34 still makes my head spin. Academia in Chicago, and the world, would be vastly different...

  • @williamtell5365
    @williamtell5365 2 года назад +52

    Funny, I attended both. NU for undergrad, U of C for grad school. I'm thankful for the education I received at both schools. As they say in SE Asia: "same same, but different."

  • @charlesgravitt6328
    @charlesgravitt6328 4 года назад +80

    Hey man, great video! I'm an incoming freshman at UChicago so it was super cool to see this comparison since I can't actually go out and visit. I hope I can find you on campus!

    • @ChicagoGeographer
      @ChicagoGeographer  4 года назад +2

      Thanks, I appreciate it! Best of luck to you for your first year man

    • @jesseplung360
      @jesseplung360 4 года назад +3

      Lmao get ready for 4 years of hell... and some good times too

    • @ahkim3
      @ahkim3 4 года назад +1

      Hey man, how's your experience at UChicago so far? I'll be applying EA there tomorrow but it'd be interesting to hear thoughts from a current student

    • @mukhtarsyrymuly3036
      @mukhtarsyrymuly3036 4 года назад

      I applied ED and didn't admitted. I am curious to know what your GPA, SAT/ACT scores were.

    • @ggez590
      @ggez590 4 года назад

      @@mukhtarsyrymuly3036 SAT prolly didn't matter as much this year. I think the main difficulty is the essays itself and a little bit of extra curriculars. Though, you should know that this is anecdotal evidence since I got in, and a person I know who had more leadership experience didn't

  • @victorsladkowski
    @victorsladkowski 3 года назад +96

    Absolutely love Northwestern's lakefront campus but something about UChicago just feels like Hogwarts in the best way. I'm a bit more partial to Hyde Park / Jackson Park than I am Evanston though.

  • @loganynguyen
    @loganynguyen 4 года назад +20

    Would love more content like this for other schools too

  • @w.h7285
    @w.h7285 4 года назад +34

    This video came up in my YT recommended. I watched the whole thing, loved it, then became disappointed to see how few subscribers and how underrated this channel is.. Keep making videos bro your channel will go parabolic at some point

    • @ChicagoGeographer
      @ChicagoGeographer  4 года назад +1

      I'm glad you enjoyed it, thank you for watching and for the kind words!

  • @halwag
    @halwag 3 года назад +79

    Things u missed: Northwestern is now a top ten school, has a very good engineering school (UC has none), a good journalism and theater/music school, very entrepreneurial business/tech program, law, business, medicine is in its own campus downtown, the sports ctr/football ctr is also NW Evanston, the campus is hard by Lake Michigan (brrrr!), a tech ctr. in Silicon valley, no crime in trendy n. suburb of Evanston (unlike UC in south city). Both schools do research at the Fed. Argonne labs, and Fermi ctr.

    • @jollyholly2851
      @jollyholly2851 3 года назад +16

      Northwestern is not global top 10. UChicago is consistently global top 10.

    • @halwag
      @halwag 3 года назад +1

      @@jollyholly2851 . Thanx for comment. About 'global U.', you may be right. UC is very strong in Arts&sciences&Professional schools. Domestically, both schools are ranked close. UC chose not to field sports teams, whereas NU does. How about a chess team, UC! Anyway, a degree in law, business, med is a guarantee of a good job from either school. But today, engineering too is important (for that, go to Illinois.).

    • @jollyholly2851
      @jollyholly2851 3 года назад +2

      @@halwag Yeah of course. If you're interested in Engineering, why apply to UChicago. But same goes for an English literature major--she would not want to attend MIT.

    • @halwag
      @halwag 3 года назад +1

      @@jollyholly2851. Thanx for reply. Actually, not all MITs are ' cyber-geek-heads'. Some actually read novels and sing songs.

    • @mr.muhammad5605
      @mr.muhammad5605 3 года назад

      @@halwag what about Computer Science at UChicago?

  • @luisdiegomorataya3505
    @luisdiegomorataya3505 4 года назад +23

    you should do a vid comparing Loyola Chicago and DePaul

  • @youtubehandlesareridiculous
    @youtubehandlesareridiculous 3 года назад +7

    Love your videos, I'd be interested in a video about the University of Illinois!

  • @jeromemushi2442
    @jeromemushi2442 4 года назад +67

    Obama before he was a senator, taught constitutional law at UChicago.

    • @wesmarshall5426
      @wesmarshall5426 Год назад +1

      Thats a negative

    • @NYCOPERAFAN
      @NYCOPERAFAN 9 месяцев назад +3

      @@wesmarshall5426 As is your racist bigotry.

  • @coewroub1398
    @coewroub1398 3 года назад +12

    NU is my dream school, but I would also be happy with UChicago!
    Both are great schools!

  • @chicagoakland
    @chicagoakland 3 года назад +42

    I'm just here as a DePaul grad, looking on in envy.

    • @trilopark2500
      @trilopark2500 3 года назад +2

      wat the fuck is depaul

    • @doubled7302
      @doubled7302 3 года назад +2

      I went to DePaul it was awesome. I have fond memories of a being a student there. Chicago is a great city for students if you take advantage of all it has to offer.

    • @emelya.3312
      @emelya.3312 3 года назад +6

      @@trilopark2500 A university, duh

    • @BiologyIsHot
      @BiologyIsHot 3 года назад +11

      Eh NU grad student here. This whole elite university thing is fucked up. Don't feed the system. I mean, do. It benefits me to have people think it's something other than/better than a toxic environment... but also it's just an elitist and toxic setting and is actually a pretty poor educational environment.

    • @Punjabispitta
      @Punjabispitta 3 года назад

      @@BiologyIsHot yup exactly (MWU student in downers)

  • @charlest.5742
    @charlest.5742 3 года назад +5

    I'm about to go into DePaul as an undergraduate film major, so I'm pretty excited to be in the city of Chicago coming from the DC area.

  • @phemstros
    @phemstros 4 года назад +53

    You missed Medill at NU, the No. 1 Journalism school in the nation

  • @carlthompson7179
    @carlthompson7179 2 года назад

    Excellent work,my friend. Thank you

  • @skiparkcityut
    @skiparkcityut 2 года назад +7

    Northwestern you get big ten football and basketball. Really different college experience

  • @albertvillalobos1377
    @albertvillalobos1377 Год назад

    I'm a dad in the burbs with a high school senior. I take her to dance class in Chicago on Saturdays and get 3 hrs to kill so I've been using it to look at schools. I'm not sure if I've seen the other campus but Northwestern is something out of a college/frat movie, it's impressive. It's a little town that sprawls for blocks along the lake. I didn't realize it was so far outside Chicago but there's a bunch of mansions along the route I just kept driving in awe and poof University world.

  • @bennyksmusicalworld
    @bennyksmusicalworld 2 года назад +6

    Dam that's like Harvard and MIT merging. Truly a lost merger of potentially epic proportions

  • @AdrianRuiz-gp5ru
    @AdrianRuiz-gp5ru 11 месяцев назад

    Just got a likely letter of admissions from uchicago and I’m pretty psyched! It’s my first admissions decision from my application cycle and hopefully I got more acceptance letters, but I’m pretty intimidated about how people say it’s “unnecessarily hard” which I’m scared will prevent me from doing extracurriculars

  • @alexhuitron181
    @alexhuitron181 4 года назад +3

    Hey man, the building you show at 3:00 is the Ryan Center for Musical Arts. Not Wirtz.

  • @apolloumbra3312
    @apolloumbra3312 3 года назад

    3:08 isn’t Wirtz, it’s the Ryan center for musical arts which we all just call Bienen or the cruise ship building. Wirtz is across the street.

  • @ZaibatsuHeavyIndustries
    @ZaibatsuHeavyIndustries 4 года назад +4

    Congrats on 900 subs!

  • @meghand8682
    @meghand8682 3 года назад +9

    Stanford frosh that got rejected by both here. I wanted to stay in the Chicago area, but I’m really excited to start anew in California!

    • @robmidford2924
      @robmidford2924 3 года назад +2

      Grew up in L.A., was rejected by Stanford, went to Medill, instead.

    • @meghand8682
      @meghand8682 3 года назад +1

      @@robmidford2924 haha wild how college admissions work. still haven’t gotten to step foot on campus yet because of remote learning protocol, but I’m really excited to see California and all its cities for the first time

    • @kennedylareign
      @kennedylareign 3 года назад +2

      Man Stanford was my dream school, and I was rejected, but I somehow got into UChicago. It’s almost laughable how ironic and random the process is! Good luck at Stanford :D

    • @Beabeegirl
      @Beabeegirl 3 года назад

      @@kennedylareign so did you do REA for Stanford and RD for Chicago?

    • @kennedylareign
      @kennedylareign 3 года назад +1

      @@Beabeegirl i did rd for both stanford and chicago!

  • @negbefla6956
    @negbefla6956 3 года назад +2

    UC geared towards graduate school. NU undergraduate

  • @neonbleached5685
    @neonbleached5685 4 года назад +4

    Love the vid! You deserve so many more subs

  • @emilyanne13434O
    @emilyanne13434O 4 года назад +5

    i’ve been wanting to go to UChicago since i was a child but my gpa would never let me in omg

    • @graceyang9607
      @graceyang9607 4 года назад

      :(( i just applied EDII -- should've applied EDI tbh -- and results come out in two months! (hobi's cheering you on hehe)

    • @luisdiaz1997
      @luisdiaz1997 3 года назад +8

      I feel that, had a 2.0 gpa out of high school, but just got accepted to UChicago for grad school :)

    • @graceyang9607
      @graceyang9607 3 года назад +1

      @@luisdiaz1997 wow, good on you!! congrats!

    • @monke8363
      @monke8363 3 года назад +1

      @@luisdiaz1997 im curious to know how did you make up for it?

    • @daveyjones3016
      @daveyjones3016 3 года назад +1

      @@luisdiaz1997 Good stuff bro 🎉.

  • @joliettraveler
    @joliettraveler Год назад

    If you are looking for engineering or accounting go to the University of Illinois in Champaign/Urbana.

    • @ethanmeyer1480
      @ethanmeyer1480 9 месяцев назад +1

      ah yes, instead of the beautiful city of Chicago, people should consider the world-renown cornfields found in the villages of urbana and champaign

  • @user-fs8tl7ni1w
    @user-fs8tl7ni1w 8 месяцев назад

    DePaul is the real Chicago school. A Catholic, Big East Conference university. It’s right in the heart of Chicago-it’s very best neighborhood. The neighborhood is like Paris.
    DePaul has a primacy of teaching, not research. Most undergraduates don’t need to do research…they need to learn. Also, do either NU or UC have an undergraduate business school? DePaul does, and it’s fantastic!

  • @BiologyIsHot
    @BiologyIsHot 3 года назад +2

    The green line? Proof UChicago students don't get to leave Hyde Park. Although NU students also don't leave Evanston, either unless they do summer research at the med school lol

  • @ahkim3
    @ahkim3 4 года назад +2

    Thanks for the great vid! Do you have any thoughts on their engineering/cs departments?

    • @ChicagoGeographer
      @ChicagoGeographer  4 года назад +1

      Thanks for watching! I have heard good things about CS from some friends, though like a lot of classes here it can be tough. UChicago doesn't have typical engineering programs, but they do have a new molecular engineering major which is really cool.

    • @ahkim3
      @ahkim3 4 года назад +1

      @@ChicagoGeographer sweet, thanks again!

  • @yousefmohamed6153
    @yousefmohamed6153 3 года назад +1

    What about specializing in medicine, who is the best?

  • @lucialee1232
    @lucialee1232 3 года назад

    Very informative

  • @timewave02012
    @timewave02012 4 года назад +8

    What's your major? I didn't pay much attention to any university in Chicago, because I was looking for an electrical engineering major-although I ended up living in the Chicago suburbs and working with quite a few IIT graduates.

    • @ChicagoGeographer
      @ChicagoGeographer  4 года назад +8

      I'm an environmental and urban studies major currently!

  • @hermes-stanlvu4116
    @hermes-stanlvu4116 3 года назад +1

    While everyone else Illinois dream is to attend U Illinois in Urbana-Champaign

  • @stevenweix4330
    @stevenweix4330 11 месяцев назад

    As an alum from Northwestern, I expected a video from a U of C alum to be less balanced but I'd say it's pretty accurate-- ❤

  • @maureencora1
    @maureencora1 Год назад

    I Wonder If UC Had Been Football & Basketball in the Big 10 and NU was Div.III?

  • @19MAD95
    @19MAD95 3 года назад +2

    Now do DePaul vs Loyola

  • @rosepink2773
    @rosepink2773 2 года назад

    Please how to get free tuition for one of these universities in Illinois ?! My daughter has early graduation from her high school in illinois… And she wants to do about Computer with high salary and she confused….Any advice 🙏🏻 thank you,

    • @NYCOPERAFAN
      @NYCOPERAFAN 9 месяцев назад

      University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana is better in Computer Science than either of these two.

  • @mckinseyand2022
    @mckinseyand2022 2 года назад +2

    Both schools are amazing.

  • @teosoto0360
    @teosoto0360 2 года назад +1

    i would love to see loyola chicago vs depaul

    • @NYCOPERAFAN
      @NYCOPERAFAN 9 месяцев назад

      Lower-tier Catholic institutions nowhere near the levels of Georgetown or even BC and Notre Dame.

  • @lucasliam8238
    @lucasliam8238 4 года назад +1

    You have an amazing voice

  • @LoremasterLiberaster
    @LoremasterLiberaster 3 года назад

    Hey Chicago Geographer are you an undergraduate or masters level at UChicago?

    • @ChicagoGeographer
      @ChicagoGeographer  3 года назад

      I'm an undergrad! 2nd year to be specific

    • @LoremasterLiberaster
      @LoremasterLiberaster 3 года назад +2

      @@ChicagoGeographer congrats and be proud of yourself. You are at an excellent university

  • @davidmotyka2708
    @davidmotyka2708 Год назад +1

    The university of Chicago is the best as when I was blinded in one eye the Doctors made it where nobody knew in 1953.

  • @georgecuarteros4403
    @georgecuarteros4403 2 года назад +1

    Thanks for the video. Very informative. It’ll help me guide my son entering 9th grade to prepare for his college of choice…..

  • @user-fs8tl7ni1w
    @user-fs8tl7ni1w 8 месяцев назад

    UC is in a very rough neighborhood; Northwestern isn’t even in Chicago, except grad/professional schools.

  • @thefingerofgod69
    @thefingerofgod69 4 года назад +1

    That was fun.

  • @yairbitran5774
    @yairbitran5774 3 года назад

    Awesome video man, really enjoyed it :). Please make another one talking about UChicago 👌🏻🙌🏻

  • @Jstwrd
    @Jstwrd 3 года назад +1

    Is roosevelt university good?🤔🤷

  • @banardadams8776
    @banardadams8776 3 года назад

    Uchicago is my dream school

  • @jahirlopez715
    @jahirlopez715 3 года назад +1

    UChicago is TOO hard to get into which just leads to people who are competitive and super nerds attending... that's why it was a no for me. Northwestern U is way better.

    • @Stryfe52
      @Stryfe52 2 года назад

      God bro. I hate super nerds, Northwestern has a better campus anyways…

    • @AndrewMacedo-ob6jx
      @AndrewMacedo-ob6jx Год назад +1

      I mean, it's a 7% acceptance rate vs a 6% acceptance rate. They both have fairly similar GPA and SAT figures to nowadays. I'd say both are extremely hard to get into, and that quarter system at NU is rough. Granted, UChicago's student body may be a bit more academically focused, but that is one of the main selling points of the school.

    • @NYCOPERAFAN
      @NYCOPERAFAN 9 месяцев назад

      Yes it's academically superior and more rigorous thus harder to get into.

  • @FarahS.
    @FarahS. Год назад +1

    UChicago seems to have a lot of violence cases…

  • @rumilb
    @rumilb 4 года назад +6

    I*wa disliked this video

  • @NYCOPERAFAN
    @NYCOPERAFAN 2 года назад +5

    Chicago exceeds Northwestern in almost every common category. Northwestern's best programs such as Journalism, Theatre etc. are usually in areas/fields not taught at U of C. No contest really (similar to Columbia vs. NYU in NYC).

    • @RobertSmurda
      @RobertSmurda 2 года назад +11

      Why is it Northwestern's fault that UChicago has a lack of variety? NU is top notch in materials science, journalism, theatre, music, chemical engineering, biomedical engineering, industrial engineering, etc. Why shouldn't we count those when comparing the universities? That's like if we said UChicago is better than MIT because all of MIT's engineering programs don't count because UChicago doesn't have them.
      Even if you want to only count the programs that UChicago has, UChicago is marginally better. They are equal for sciences - they have different specialties - NU has the 2nd best research output in the U.S. for chemistry while Chicago is better at physics; they are about equal for biology. UChicago is clearly better at humanities -- I'll give you that. UChicago is better at theoretical math but NU is better at practical math. They are equal for computer science (equally bad, that is). UChicago is better at Econ, but the gap has closed a lot since the '50s and '60s. UChicago econ used to be significantly better than all other programs, but the difference is small now. Kellogg and Booth are equal - they are both non HSW M7's. UChicago law is better - I'll give you that too. The med schools are the same.
      So overall, UChicago is slightly better at what they share, but NU has much more variety. Surprisingly to me, NU has better research output than Chicago even though NU is a more pre-professional school while Chicago is supposedly academic. If you want to argue Chicago is better, that's reasonable, but it's certainly not some blow out like you make it seem.

    • @MrGman636
      @MrGman636 Год назад +1

      Location alone, I'd choose Northwestern 10/10 times. But I digress as someone who attended Loyola for grad school.

    • @NYCOPERAFAN
      @NYCOPERAFAN Год назад

      @@MrGman636 Loyola's in a crappy neighborhood too, in fact one more dangerous than Hyde Park (though better connected by public transit).

  • @alexschneider5510
    @alexschneider5510 4 года назад +10

    UChicago has no social life. Also it has one of the highest suicide rates of any school. And Northwestern loves its sports teems but they aren't actually that good

    • @donniedarkoisthemostunderr4785
      @donniedarkoisthemostunderr4785 4 года назад +1

      Social life=drinking, whoring and screwing around?

    • @muhchung
      @muhchung 4 года назад +7

      When you have a life of the mind, you don't need social life.

    • @arcisvar4863
      @arcisvar4863 4 года назад +10

      @@donniedarkoisthemostunderr4785 no you pathetic twat, it means on occasion...going out with friends, meeting new peopl,doing things that are new and exciting, making new friends and memories. As opposed to dying slowly inside a stuffy room for four(plus) years of your short short life.

    • @AndrewMacedo-ob6jx
      @AndrewMacedo-ob6jx Год назад

      @@muhchung Hah! Did you steal that from a UC ad?

  • @princeofcupspoc9073
    @princeofcupspoc9073 3 года назад +1

    This is a wonderful example of how to "damn with faint praise." Brilliant, as expected. If you don't understand what I'm talking about, then you should go to Northwestern.

    • @cantchangemynamefor90days6
      @cantchangemynamefor90days6 3 года назад +1

      it’s so subtle i can’t even tell if it’s just implicit bias or not. i’ve always thought the phrase “where fun goes to die” was a little morbid, considering what will -literally- happen if you try to have fun at night :/

    • @Stryfe52
      @Stryfe52 2 года назад

      WHAT DOES ANY OF THIS EVEN MEAN?!!??

    • @ottovonjizzmark9864
      @ottovonjizzmark9864 Год назад +2

      I think Northwestern students just don’t have time for subtle talk or to notice these implicit biases. They’re too busy having fun, making friends and enjoying life. Too bad other institutions can’t say the same ; )

  • @orange1719
    @orange1719 3 года назад +8

    Northwestern is better overall!!!

    • @NYCOPERAFAN
      @NYCOPERAFAN 2 года назад +1

      So delusional only a Northwestern alum would believe it!

  • @msk4584
    @msk4584 4 года назад

    subscribed

  • @daniromta
    @daniromta Год назад +2

    As a UChicago alum, there is no comparison here. UChicago is old money, status, prestige. Who is northwestern even…

    • @NYCOPERAFAN
      @NYCOPERAFAN 9 месяцев назад

      @@UCTpAY1FsW-gMKBPCWrKEjeQ Many years it's been in the top 5.

  • @muhchung
    @muhchung 4 года назад +7

    Rivalry? What rivalry? They are not of the same tier. Chicago is tier 1, NWU is tier 1.5 or 2. Has anyone heard of Northwestern School of Economics, Sociology, Political Science, or Anthropology? No!! Because they simply do not exist.

    • @arcisvar4863
      @arcisvar4863 4 года назад +11

      Ok willynn UChicago good NU bad. Now go watch them students before they all start committing suicide at an alarming rate.....oh it already is the highest in the country? Who would have thought that of a TIER 1 university.

    • @alexhuitron181
      @alexhuitron181 4 года назад +23

      Alright asshole, if you’re going to talk shit about Northwestern (NU) at least do some research. NU is a tier 1 research institution and it has some programs that are ranked higher than they would be in UChicago, and vice versa. Who’s better and who’s worse means jack shit because they’re both great colleges. The only people who care about which of these top 10 schools are better are fools like you.

    • @phemstros
      @phemstros 4 года назад +1

      Huh?

    • @phemstros
      @phemstros 3 года назад +3

      Er..Kellogg?

    • @ProficientC
      @ProficientC 3 года назад +1

      That was at the expense of sports dated back to a decision made in the 1930s. A top 10 college not in NCAA Division I is a joke.