Northwestern University Campus
The campus
The university has two separate campuses. A rather turned to the social sciences campuses located in Evanston and one reserved for the hard sciences and the law in the city of Chicago.
Campus in Evanston
The campus of Northwestern in Evanston is located north of Chicago from Lake Michigan and Sheridan Road. The north side of campus is the center of student life on campus with “fraternity quads,” the Henry Hub, the Sports Pavilion of the Crown and other sports facilities, the Technological Institute, Dearborn Observatory, and to other buildings related to science as Ryan Hall and Ford Motor Company Engineering Design Center.
The south side of campus includes buildings of artistic disciplines such as music, the building arts (such as Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art). In the 1960 work was undertaken to expand the campus of 84 hectares.
The university has five libraries on the Evanston campus, and three on the campus of Chicago. Libraries have a total of over 4.6 million volumes. The Library of African Studies is one of the largest in the world.
A subway line runs through the campus, the purple line . The online course takes its name and color of the university. The three stations on campus are named Foster, Davis and Noyes. A bus service called CTA also passes into the campus and a bus line was opened by the university to commute between two campuses.
Campus of Chicago
Northwestern’s campus in the city of Chicago is located near the neighborhood of Streeterville , not far from the famous John Hancock Center on Michigan Avenue or the Chicago Water Tower . The main tower of the campus was the first skyscraper university across the country. The Chicago campus is home to medical school and here is the hospital of the university but also in law school, some buildings of the School of Business and the School of Continuing Studies, which organizes evening classes for professionals to complete their training.
