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Northwestern University
Northwestern University, founded in 1851 by a group of Methodist businessmen and named for the Northwest Territory it was chartered to serve, has grown into one of the country's top research universities, with a Evanston campus directly on Lake Michigan just north of Chicago. The Medill School of Journalism is consistently ranked among the best journalism programs in the country, and Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management similarly ranks among the top business schools nationally, giving the university unusually strong programs in both media and business that draw on its proximity to Chicago's corporate and media industries. Northwestern's combination of Big Ten athletics, an elite academic reputation, and a lakefront suburban campus close to a major city has made it one of the more distinctive elite research universities — competing academically with the Ivy League while also fielding Division I sports teams in one of the country's most competitive athletic conferences. The university's theater and performance studies programs have produced a disproportionate share of working film, television, and stage actors relative to the size of the program, giving Northwestern an entertainment-industry pipeline that rivals dedicated conservatory programs despite being embedded within a large comprehensive research university.
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Illinois Institute of Technology
Illinois Institute of Technology, formed in 1940 through the merger of the Armour Institute and Lewis Institute, commissioned modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe to design its main campus starting in the 1940s, and IIT's Chicago campus remains one of the most complete and architecturally significant collections of Mies's work anywhere in the world. The university's engineering and architecture programs have built strong national reputations, and IIT's Institute of Design, one of the oldest graduate design programs in the country, played a foundational role in developing the field of design thinking as it's practiced across the technology and consulting industries today. IIT's South Side Chicago location and its historically strong ties to the city's industrial and engineering employers have made it a consistent source of engineering talent for the region's manufacturing, aerospace, and technology sectors, even as the university's national name recognition has lagged behind its academic strength. The university's relatively small size and technical focus — engineering, architecture, business, and design, with comparatively little emphasis on the traditional liberal arts — give it a distinctly specialized identity among Illinois's major research universities, closer in mission to Caltech or Georgia Tech than to a comprehensive university like UIUC.
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