Key Facts
Institutional control:
Private nonprofit
Religious affiliation:
United Church of Christ
Campus size:
Small
Setting: Located
within 15 miles of a major urban area
Number of undergraduate
students: 2,690
Number of graduate
students: 124
Admissions office:
Mr. Andrew B. Sison
Phone: (630) 617-3400
Fax: (630) 617-5501
E-mail: admit@elmhurst.edu
Financial aid office:
Mr. Gary F. Rold
Phone: (630) 617-3075
Fax: (630) 617-5501
E-mail: garyr@elmhurst.edu
Cost of attendance:
Undergraduate in-state tuition (full year): $18,600
Undergraduate out-of-state tuition (full year): $18,600
Typical room charge (full year): $3,460
Typical board charge (full year): $2,810
Financial aid:
Grants offered: Yes
Scholarships offered: Yes
Loans offered: Yes
Organizations:
Number of registered organizations: 80
Number of honor societies: 15
Number of social fraternities: 5
Number of social sororities: 5
About
Elmhurst College
Elmhurst College is
a private, comprehensive, liberal arts college located near the center
of metropolitan Chicago. Founded in 1871, the College advances the practical
and professional relevance of the liberal arts tradition. The academic
programs are characterized by their connections with the professional
world and their responsiveness to the intellectual needs of today's diverse
student population. With 52 undergraduate majors and six graduate programs,
Elmhurst students strengthen their skills of critical and creative inquiry
and develop their capacity for lives of learning, service, and meaningful
work.
While Elmhurst is
small enough to offer students opportunities to make real contributions
to campus life, it also is large enough to offer an extensive range of
choices among co-curricular and extracurricular activities. Eighty-seven
registered clubs, organizations, and athletic teams are active on campus.
The jazz band, radio station, and student newspaper, The Leader,
have a professional edge. The Mill Theatre presents dramas, musicals,
and student-directed productions of original scripts. The Elmhurst College
Jazz Festival is an annual, nationally recognized celebration of the supremely
American art form. Eminent artists and business, political, and religious
leaders regularly speak to campus audiences. Examples include Lech Walesa
and Elie Wiesel, winners of the Nobel Prize for Peace; the acclaimed poets
Maya Angelou and Gwendolyn Brooks; and the explorer Robert Ballard, who
discovered the wreckage of the R.M.S. Titanic.
The College fields
16 teams in NCAA Division III and is a charter member of the highly competitive
College Conference of Illinois and Wisconsin (CCIW). During the 1990s,
the Bluejays won CCIW championships in baseball, women's softball and
volleyball, and qualified for post-season play in men's basketball and
women's volleyball.
Elmhurst is affiliated
with the United Church of Christ. Like the Church, the College is open,
welcoming, and ecumenical. Nearly half the students are Roman Catholic.
Jews, Muslims, Orthodox, and many Protestant denominations are represented
on the faculty and in the student body. In short, people of all creeds
(and of none) come to the campus to learn and thrive.
Elmhurst's lush suburban
campus, located 16 miles west of Chicago's Loop, is a registered arboretum,
with 23 red-brick buildings and more than 600 varieties of trees and other
plants. The students benefit enormously from the College's location near
the heart of one of the world's most important and appealing urban regions.
The Chicago area offers world-class opportunities for cultural, social,
and sporting events. A commuter railroad stops two blocks from the campus,
and city and suburban attractions also are accessible via several interstate
highways. The city of Elmhurst, a charming suburb with more than 42,000
residents, is located on the eastern edge of DuPage County, which is six
miles southwest of Chicago's O'Hare International Airport.
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