Guests socialize during Chicago Harris’s 25th anniversary celebration. (Photography by Andrew Nelles)

Policy statement

After 25 years, Chicago Harris keeps growing.

Year the interdisciplinary committee that became the University of Chicago Harris School of Public Policy began: 1977

Year the graduate school was named for Irving B. Harris, who endowed the program: 1990

Current enrollment: 375

Countries represented among the Chicago Harris student body: 36

Student-to-faculty ratio. 10:1

Total of gifts, in millions, from University trustees supporting Chicago Harris research, education, and the school’s move to a new facility (see “Onward and Upward”): $32.5