Founded in 1898 by the Congregation of the Mission (or Vencentian) religious community, DePaul University is named after 17th Century French priest St. Vincent de Paul.
DePaul's Lincoln Park campus is the oldest, largest and most active of the university's five campuses. Located on 40 acres in the heart of Chicago's historic Lincoln Park neighborhood, it offers a traditional university environment. About 3,000 students live on campus in DePaul's 11 residence halls and apartments.
The Lincoln Park Campus indluces the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the College of Science and Health, the College of Education, the School of Music, The Theatre School and the extensive John T. Richardson Library.
The school operates on the quarter system and offers about 275 undergraduate and graduate programs. More than 98 percent of all classes are taught by faculty members, according to DePaul representatives. Most classes have fewer than 40 students and the general student-professor ratio is 17:1.
Its four other campuses ae located in the Chicago Loop, Naperville, Oak Forest and O'Hare.