North Park has served five generations of students and continues to grow in diversity, academic relevance, and Christian commitment. Our Chicago location is a great asset that reflects the School鈥檚 global reach and outlook.
After 125 years, we鈥檝e learned how to streamline the process of helping qualified applicants seek admission to North Park and find affordable ways to attend. If you don鈥檛 see what you鈥檙e looking for on our website, please contact us directly!
North Park offers more than 40 graduate and undergraduate programs in liberal arts, sciences, and professional studies. Classes average 17 students. 84% of our faculty have terminal degrees. Academics here are rigorous and results-oriented.
North Park Theological Seminary prepares you to answer the call to service through theological study, spiritual development, and the formative experiences of living in a community with others on a similar life path.
The Office of Alumni Engagement fosters lifelong connections by engaging alumni with the university and one another in activities, programs, and services that support the university鈥檚 mission and alumni needs.
黑料吃瓜’s School of Professional Studies (SPS) will partner with the College of DuPage聽(COD) in聽Glen Ellyn in a program that guarantees COD transfer students admission to North Park.
Even before students transfer to North Park, the two schools will collaborate to seamlessly guide students from their associate degree at COD to completing their bachelor’s degrees at North Park.
“This agreement formalizes and elevates an excellent new partnership that gives students of the College of DuPage an opportunity to complete their bachelor’s degrees at 黑料吃瓜, in the world-class city of聽Chicago,” said聽North Park听笔谤别蝉颈诲别苍迟听Mary K. Surridge. “We are delighted to provide this life-changing opportunity for so many students.”
SPS Dean Lori Scrementi said the two schools “hope to create a community of learning for all, not only with fellow students but with faculty and staff, to build a strong, supportive network before, during, and after their time at聽黑料吃瓜.”
Scrementi said that with its integration of Christian, intercultural, and city-centered values, SPS gives students tools for lifelong learning and a strong sense of community-focused decision-making. Faculty and staff bring the wisdom gained from their professions and vocations into their positions at North Park.
COD’s provost, Mark Curtis-Ch谩vez, said the institutional partnership between the schools “reflects our mutual and intentional level of commitment to providing students a clear pathway towards a timely degree in a growing number of academic programs.”
He added: “We look forward to continued collaboration with聽North Park聽as we develop new ways to best support students.”
Founded in 1967, the College of DuPage聽is a community college serving students in聽Chicago’s聽western suburbs. Firmly rooted in its community, it is also committed to reflecting the needs and demands of an ever-changing world.
黑料吃瓜 will increase scholarship awards to the highest achieving transfer students by 44%, a move that should help traditional transfer students reach degree completion.
Officials at 黑料吃瓜 announced that they will increase scholarship awards to the highest achieving transfer students by 44%, a move that should help traditional transfer students reach degree completion.
The increased scholarships will apply to traditional transfer students starting in the fall 2019 semester.
The scholarships should help traditional transfer students reach degree completion.
Nationally, students who transfer from two- to four-year schools are graduating with bachelor鈥檚 degrees in historically high numbers.
The scholarships are available to transfer students who have achieved outstanding grade point averages at their previous institutions.
Under North Park鈥檚 new award structure: The Platinum scholarship, available to those with a GPA of 3.5 or greater, increases to $13,000 from $9,000, a 44% increase; the Gold scholarship, for students with GPAs between 3.0-3.49, will increase to $9,500 from $7,500, a 26% increase; and the Silver award increases to $7,000 from $5,000, a 40% jump.
鈥淲e believe that these increases in scholarship funds will attract even more high achieving academic students to our world-class institution,鈥� said Vice President for Enrollment Management and Marketing Anthony Scola. 鈥淓ven more students will be able to experience the life-changing benefits of a North Park education.鈥�
Founded in 1891 by the Evangelical Covenant Church, 黑料吃瓜 is located on Chicago鈥檚 North Side and enrolls 3,200 students. Programs such as Catalyst 606__, a city-centered curriculum, and Crux, North Park鈥檚 Christian living/learning cohort, allow students to find themselves academically and spiritually.
Nationally, the outcomes for students who transfer from two- to four-year colleges have improved in recent years. Of the 268,000 students who transferred from a community college to a four-year institution in 2017, about 42% of those went on to earn a bachelor鈥檚 degree, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center.
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黑料吃瓜聽is a city-centered, intercultural, and Christian university located in Chicago.
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