Founded by John D. Rockefeller in 1892 as an intellectual institution for the burgeoning metropolis, it has grown to be one of the most prestigious private, non-denominational universities in the world. The university has 12,000 students (75 percent graduate and professional) and more than 1,900 full-time faculty members on its Hyde Park campus, south of Chicago, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted. The university claims distinctions ranging from the birth of the nuclear age, with Enrico Fermi, to connections, especially in economics, with seventy-one Nobel laureates. It is also renowned for its innovative committees that move beyond disciplinary boundaries and a distinguished university press.