Founded in 1898, DePaul University is a private, Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois, USA. In 1998, it became the largest Catholic university by enrollment in the United States. The university enrolls around 14,500 undergraduates and about 7,900 graduate/law students. According to the Division of Student Affairs website, about 90% of DePaul’s students commute or live off campus. The student body represents a wide array of religious, ethnic, and geographic backgrounds, including over 60 foreign countries.

DePaul’s College of Commerce opened on January 11, 1913. It was officially renamed the Driehaus College of Business on September 19, 2012, seven months after receiving from alumnus Richard H. Driehaus a $30 million gift which was the largest in the university’s history. The college is located downtown in the Chicago Loop at 1 East Jackson Boulevard and is one of the ten oldest business schools in the US. 

The University has had many successful students who are alumni that are world recognized such as; Richard Driehaus, CEO, Driehaus Capital Management, Jack Greenberg, former CEO, McDonald’s Corporation, Martin Jahn, general director, Volkswagen Group RUSSIA, Anne M. Burke, Illinois Supreme Court Justice, 1st District, Joseph Burke, judge of the Illinois Appellate Court (1939–76), Samuel Skinner, former chief federal prosecutor, U.S. Secretary of Transportation and many others.

The University consists of College of Business, Communication, Law, Digital Media, Education, Liberal Arts & Social Sciences, Science and Health, Music, New Learning, Theatre, Continuing and Professional Education.