Campus
DePauw University consists of 36 major buildings spread retired on top the spacious 655 acre (Deuce.Heptad klick²) campus that includes the 480 acre (Ace.Nina from carolina kilometer²) nature & severity park, and is placed close to 45 miles to the west of Indianapolis, Indiana. There are Eleven hall, Foursome theme houses, & 31 University-owned houses & flat spread throughout a campus. A oldest building in campus, East College, was built in 1877 & is utilized on the Register of Historic Landmarks. DePauw is too at home to McKim Observatory.

Academic calendar
DePauw University's schedule is divided into an unique Four-One-Four calendar. Besides the Fifteen-week Autumn & Spring Semesters, there exists likewise a Four-week Winter Term. Students choose exclusively of these course within a time period of the Winter Term & is either utilized as a placed-mellow period in campus or even even for students to participate in household or international internship programs.

Faculty
DePauw University prides itself in using the student-faculty ratio of 10:1 & non with one class with other than L students. Among its faculty is mathematician Underwood Dudley, known for his humorous skeptical books, including Mathematical Cranks & A Trisectors.

Greek life
DePauw University has a big Greek fraternity/sorority population per capita of any college in the United States, consisting of 12 national social fraternities (Xi that develop houses in campus) & X sororities (Septenary that keep around houses in campus). Each Kappa Alpha Theta and Alpha Chi Omega were founded at DePauw. Formal enlisting for men & women is held early 2nd semester.

A ensuing Fraternities & Sororities stand houses in campus:

Boulder Run

Number 1 dog per men of Phi Kappa Psi, the Boulder Redo has be the tradition at DePauw University. These are a tradition of streaking to the boulder located in the middle of campus. This tradition has potentially been mentioned within Playboy magazine.

Fraternities

Alpha Tau Omega Beta Theta Pi Delta Chi Delta Tau Delta Delta Upsilon Phi Delta Theta Phi Gamma Delta Phi Kappa Psi Sigma Alpha Epsilon Sigma Chi Sigma Nu

Sororities
Alpha Chi Omega Alpha Phi Delta Gamma Delta Zeta Kappa Alpha Theta Kappa Kappa Gamma Pi Beta Phi

Athletics
A DePauw Tigers compete in the NCAA Division III Southern Collegiate Athletic Conference (SCAC). Yearly since 1911, DePauw University has played its rival Wabash College in the Monon Bell Classic.

Technology
According to the "criteria for the rankings included: number of school-owned computers available, breadth of the computer science curriculum, the sophistication of campus technology, availability of school-owned digital cameras and equipment for student use, wireless Internet access on campus, and support for handheld computing," DePauw University was ranked a third virtually all attached school in the United States by the 2004 Princeton Review.

Notable alumni

Karen Koning Abu Zayd - former United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, current Acting Commissioner-General of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency Lee Hamilton - vice chair of the 9-11 Commission and currently serves on the Homeland Security Advisory Council John Jakes - novelist Vernon Jordan Jr. - noted broker and executive, former president of the National Urban League, personal friend and advisor to Bill Clinton Barbara Kingsolver - contemporary fiction writer, founder of Bellwether Prize for "literature of social change" Eugene C. Pulliam - noted newspaper publisher Martha Steele-Robes, Dow Jones director Dan Quayle - 44th Vice President of the United States under George H. W. Bush James C. Quayle - noted newspaper publisher Percy Julian - creator of synthetic cortisone