DePaul University
DePaul University is a private Catholic research university in Chicago, Illinois, founded in 1898 by the priests and brothers of the Congregation of the Mission, known as the Vincentians, and named after the 17th-century French priest Saint Vincent de Paul.德保罗大学是伊利诺伊州芝加哥的一所私立天主教研究型大学,1898 年由遣使会(Congregation of the Mission,又称文森会)的神父与修士创办,以 17 世纪法国神父圣文生·德·保尔命名。
The university enrolls 21,348 students, including 14,374 undergraduates and 6,974 graduate and law students, across ten colleges on its Lincoln Park and Loop campuses, holds an endowment of $1.15 billion as of 2025, and is classified among doctoral universities with high research activity.学校在林肯公园与卢普区两个校区的十个学院招收 21,348 名学生,其中本科生 14,374 人、研究生与法学院学生 6,974 人,捐赠基金截至 2025 年达 11.5 亿美元,被列为高研究活动博士大学。
It sits in the 1401+ band of the QS World University Rankings 2027 and is listed 2,099 in the 2026-2027 U.S. News global university ranking, and its name is spelled DePaul, distinct from DePauw University, a liberal arts college in Greencastle, Indiana.该校在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中位于 1401+ 区间,在 2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单中列第 2,099 位;其校名拼作 DePaul,与印第安纳州格林卡斯尔的文科大学德保乌大学(DePauw University)并非一校。
History
- The Vincentians arrived in Chicago from LaSalle, Illinois, and laid the cornerstone of St. Vincent's Church at Webster and Osgood (now Kenmore) Avenues on 14 November 1875, with the Rev. Thomas Smith, C.M., as the founding pastor.文森会会士从伊利诺伊州拉萨尔来到芝加哥,1875 年 11 月 14 日在韦伯斯特与奥斯古德(今肯莫尔)大街为圣文生教堂奠基,托马斯·史密斯神父为首任本堂神父。
- When the present church was dedicated by Archbishop Patrick Feehan on 2 May 1897, he urged the Vincentians to open a college on the adjoining site.1897 年 5 月 2 日帕特里克·菲恩大主教为新教堂祝圣时,敦促文森会在毗邻地块开办一所学院。
- St. Vincent's College opened on 30 June 1898 in the old church, renamed the College Building, with seven original faculty members including the Rev. Thomas F. Levan, C.M., and it began operations without a president.圣文生学院于 1898 年 6 月 30 日在改名学院楼的旧教堂内开办,初创教师 7 人,其中包括托马斯·莱文神父,开学之初未设校长。
- The first year ended with 70 students on the rolls, tuition for the ten-month term stood at $40, and the Rev. Peter V. Byrne, C.M., assumed the presidency on 2 January 1899.第一学年结束时在册学生 70 人,十个月学期的学费为 40 美元;1899 年 1 月 2 日,彼得·伯恩神父就任首任校长。
- The first commencement, held on 19 June 1899, awarded bachelor of arts degrees to Mark Ignatius Sheridan and William David O'Brien, the latter of whom became auxiliary bishop of Chicago.1899 年 6 月 19 日举行的首届毕业典礼向马克·谢里登与威廉·奥布莱恩授予文学学士学位,后者后来出任芝加哥辅理主教。
- Enrollment grew from 70 students in 1898 to 200 in 1903, the year Archbishop James Quigley announced a preparatory seminary for the archdiocese and the transfer of the Jesuit Saint Ignatius College, now Loyola University Chicago, to the north side, threatening the young college's survival.学生数从 1898 年的 70 人增至 1903 年的 200 人,同年奎格利大主教宣布为教区设立预科修院,并让耶稣会的圣依纳爵学院(今芝加哥洛约拉大学)迁往北区,直接威胁这所年轻学院的存续。
- In response the Vincentians re-chartered the school as DePaul University on 24 December 1907, expressly offering all of its courses of study to men and women of any religious background.作为回应,文森会于 1907 年 12 月 24 日将学校改组为德保罗大学,明确向任何宗教背景的男女开放全部课程。
- DePaul began admitting women in 1911 and awarded degrees to its first female graduates in 1912, making it one of the first Catholic universities to teach women in a coeducational setting.德保罗 1911 年开始招收女生,1912 年向首批女毕业生授予学位,是最早实行男女同校教育的天主教大学之一。
- The School of Music and the College of Commerce were established in the early 1910s, the latter opening on 11 January 1913 and ranking among the oldest business schools in the United States.音乐学院与商学院于 1910 年代初相继设立,后者 1913 年 1 月 11 日开办,是美国最古老的商学院之一。
- Courses in Chicago's Loop began in 1914, the seed of the second campus, and in 1915 the Illinois College of Law completed its affiliation and became the DePaul University College of Law, by which time enrollment had passed 1,100.1914 年起学校在芝加哥卢普区开课,成为第二个校区的萌芽;1915 年伊利诺伊法学院完成并入,改组为德保罗大学法学院,此时在校生已突破 1,100 人。
- The university was first accredited by the North Central Association of Colleges and Universities in 1926, and by 1930 more than 5,000 students were enrolled in eight colleges and schools on two campuses.1926 年学校获得北中部院校协会的首次认证,到 1930 年已有逾 5,000 名学生在两个校区的八个学院就读。
- The Great Depression brought fluctuations in enrollment and cutbacks, including the elimination of the football team in 1939, while a Department of Elementary Education set up in 1938 was reportedly the only one of its kind in the Midwest.大萧条带来入学波动与经费紧缩,1939 年橄榄球队被裁撤;1938 年设立的小学教育系据称是中西部唯一的同类学系。
- During the First World War the university formed a unit of the US Army Reserve Officers' Training Corps and converted its College Theatre into barracks, and during the Second World War it opened its facilities for war training and free industry courses.第一次世界大战期间,学校组建了美国陆军预备役军官训练团分队,并把学院剧场改为兵营;第二次世界大战期间又开放校舍用于战时培训与免费的工业课程。
- The G.I. Bill turned the financial tide, lifting enrollment to 8,857 students in 1945, twice the previous year, and past 11,000 in 1948.《退伍军人权利法案》扭转了学校的财务状况,1945 年入学人数增至 8,857 人,是前一年的两倍,1948 年突破 11,000 人。
- The American School of Physical Education merged into DePaul in 1946, and the basketball programme rose under Ray Meyer, named head coach in 1942 and inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979.1946 年美国体育学校并入德保罗;篮球队在 1942 年上任的主教练雷·迈耶带领下崛起,他于 1979 年入选奈史密斯篮球名人纪念堂。
- In 1954 the university adopted its current armorial seal together with the motto Viam sapientiae monstrabo tibi, I will show you the way of wisdom, from Proverbs 4:11.1954 年学校启用现行纹章校印,同时采用校训「Viam sapientiae monstrabo tibi」(我将指引你智慧之路),语出《箴言》4 章 11 节。
- The Frank J. Lewis Foundation donated the 18-storey Kimball Building at 25 East Jackson Boulevard in 1955, renaming it the Lewis Center, and it anchored the Loop campus until the DePaul Center opened at 1 East Jackson Boulevard in 1993.1955 年弗兰克·刘易斯基金会捐赠了杰克逊大道东 25 号的 18 层金博尔大楼,改名刘易斯中心;在 1993 年杰克逊大道东 1 号德保罗中心启用前,它一直是卢普区校区的核心。
- The Black Student Union was formed in 1968 and occupied a campus building for two days in 1969, actions that brought the concerns of black, Latino, Muslim and other student groups to the fore.黑人学生联合会 1968 年成立,1969 年占领一座校园建筑两天,这些行动使黑人、拉丁裔、穆斯林等学生群体的诉求进入公众视野。
- The School for New Learning, one of the first colleges in the nation for adult students, was created in 1972, and in 1978 DePaul acquired the 47-year-old Goodman School of Drama from the Goodman Theatre and transformed it into The Theatre School.终身学习学院于 1972 年创立,是美国最早面向成人学生的学院之一;1978 年德保罗从古德曼剧院收购有 47 年历史的古德曼戏剧学校,将其改为戏剧学院。
- A six-year strategic plan launched in 1989 pushed enrollment from 13,500 to 18,500 and funded the John T. Richardson Library, completed in 1992, the renovation of the DePaul Center in 1993 and the acquisition of the Blackstone Theatre, renamed the Merle Reskin, in 1992.1989 年启动的六年战略计划把招生规模从 13,500 人提高到 18,500 人,并资助了 1992 年落成的约翰·理查森图书馆、1993 年德保罗中心的改造以及 1992 年收购并改名梅尔·雷斯金剧院的前布莱克斯通剧院。
- DePaul merged with Barat College in 2001 and withdrew in 2005 after low enrollment and rising maintenance costs made the campus nonviable, absorbing its remaining students and faculty into the other campuses.德保罗 2001 年与巴拉特学院合并,2005 年因招生低迷、维护成本上升导致校区难以为继而退出,其余师生并入其他校区。
- Wintrust Arena opened in October 2017 with 10,387 seats, replacing Allstate Arena as the home of Blue Demons basketball, with DePaul and Chicago taxpayers each contributing $82.5 million.温特拉斯特体育馆于 2017 年 10 月启用,设 10,387 个座位,取代全州体育馆成为蓝魔篮球队的主场,德保罗与芝加哥纳税各方各出资 8,250 万美元。
Academics
- DePaul is organised into ten colleges and schools: the Driehaus College of Business, the College of Communication, the Jarvis College of Computing and Digital Media, the College of Education, the College of Law, the College of Liberal Arts and Social Sciences, the College of Science and Health, the School of Music, The Theatre School and the School of Continuing and Professional Studies.德保罗下设十个学院:德里豪斯商学院、传播学院、贾维斯计算与数字媒体学院、教育学院、法学院、文理与社会科学学院、科学与健康学院、音乐学院、戏剧学院以及终身与职业教育学院。
- The university runs on a quarter system, with the College of Law the only unit that follows semesters.学校实行学季制,法学院是唯一按学期制运行的学院。
- The Driehaus College of Business, opened as the College of Commerce on 11 January 1913, was renamed on 19 September 2012 after the alumnus Richard H. Driehaus gave $30 million, then the largest gift in university history.德里豪斯商学院 1913 年 1 月 11 日以商学院之名开办,2012 年 9 月 19 日因校友理查德·德里豪斯捐赠 3,000 万美元(当时校史最大单笔捐赠)而改名。
- The college includes the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and enrolled 5,265 students with about 130 full-time faculty members in 2023-24.该学院下设凯尔斯塔特商学研究生院,2023-2024 学年有学生 5,265 人、全职教师约 130 人。
- In 2024 the Princeton Review ranked its entrepreneurship programme tenth among American undergraduate programmes and twentieth among graduate programmes, and its part-time MBA has been ranked in the national top ten by U.S. News fourteen times.2024 年《普林斯顿评论》将其创业学项目列为全美本科第十、研究生第二十,其兼读 MBA 项目曾十四次进入《美国新闻与世界报道》全国前十。
- The College of Computing and Digital Media is organised into the School of Cinematic Arts, the School of Computing and the School of Design, and it was designated a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance and Cybersecurity by the National Security Agency and the Department of Homeland Security for the years 2014 to 2021.计算与数字媒体学院下设电影艺术学院、计算机学院与设计学院,2014 至 2021 年间被美国国家安全局与国土安全部评为信息保障与网络安全学术卓越中心。
- The School of Cinematic Arts was placed sixteenth among American film schools in The Hollywood Reporter's 2021 top 25 and ninth in the magazine's 2025 list.电影艺术学院在《好莱坞报道》2021 年美国电影学院 25 强中列第 16 位,2025 年榜单列第 9 位。
- The School of Music counts more than two dozen members of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the Lyric Opera of Chicago among its faculty and offers programmes in jazz and concert performance, composition, music education, sound recording technology and performing arts management.音乐学院有 20 多位芝加哥交响乐团与芝加哥抒情歌剧团成员任教,开设爵士与音乐会演奏、作曲、音乐教育、录音技术与表演艺术管理等专业。
- The Theatre School, founded as the Goodman School of Drama in 1925, is the Midwest's oldest theatre training conservatory and moved in September 2013 into a building by Pelli Clarke Pelli containing the 250-seat thrust Watts Theatre and the 100-seat Sondra and Denis Healy Theatre.戏剧学院 1925 年以古德曼戏剧学校之名创办,是中西部最古老的戏剧训练机构,2013 年 9 月迁入佩利·克拉克·佩利建筑事务所设计的新楼,内有 250 座三面舞台瓦茨剧院和 100 座的桑德拉与丹尼斯·希利剧院。
- The College of Education partners with more than 150 Chicago-area schools, and its programmes were among the first accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education in 1965.教育学院与芝加哥地区 150 多所学校合作,其教育项目 1965 年成为首批通过全国教师教育认证委员会认证的项目之一。
- The College of Law, descended from the Illinois College of Law affiliated in 1915, was accredited by the Association of American Law Schools in 1924 and by the American Bar Association in 1925.法学院溯源于 1915 年并入的伊利诺伊法学院,1924 年获美国法学院协会认证,1925 年获美国律师协会认证。
- The College of Science and Health was established in 2011, drawing departments out of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences and adding programmes in neuroscience and engineering.科学与健康学院 2011 年设立,从文理与社会科学学院划出若干学系,并新增神经科学与工程专业。
- In 2024 DePaul accepted 73.5 per cent of undergraduate applicants, and those enrolled averaged a 3.8 high school grade point average, with mean scores of 1,240 on the SAT and 28 on the ACT among the minority who submitted tests.2024 年德保罗的本科录取率为 73.5%,入学学生高中平均绩点 3.8;在提交标准化考试成绩的少数学生中,SAT 平均 1,240 分、ACT 平均 28 分。
- The School of Continuing and Professional Studies, created in 1972, was one of the first university-wide efforts in the United States to serve adult students, letting them earn college credit for knowledge gained through life experience.终身与职业教育学院创设于 1972 年,是美国最早面向成人学生的全校性办学尝试之一,允许学生以生活经历所获知识换取学分。
- DePaul's academic staff numbered 862 full-time and 930 part-time members in fall 2021, and the student-faculty ratio stands at 17 to 1.2021 年秋德保罗有全职教师 862 人、兼任教师 930 人,师生比为 17 比 1。
- The English department awards the Oeuvre Prize to distinguished writers twice a year, and the philosophy department is noted for graduate work in twentieth-century continental philosophy.英语系每年两次向杰出作家颁发著作奖,哲学系则以 20 世纪欧陆哲学的研究生培养见长。
Campus
- DePaul's two campuses are the older and larger Lincoln Park campus in the historic Lincoln Park neighbourhood and the downtown Loop campus along Jackson Boulevard from State Street to Michigan Avenue.德保罗的两个校区分别是位于历史悠久的林肯公园社区、规模较大且历史更久的林肯公园校区,以及市中心沿杰克逊大道从州街延伸至密歇根大道的卢普区校区。
- About 2,400 students live on the Lincoln Park campus in twelve residence halls, among them Belden-Racine Hall, Ozanam Hall, Corcoran Hall, Munroe Hall, Seton Hall and University Hall.约 2,400 名学生住在林肯公园校区的 12 栋宿舍楼内,包括贝尔登-拉辛楼、奥扎南楼、科科伦楼、门罗楼、西顿楼与大学楼。
- The John T. Richardson Library, opened in 1992 and named after the university's ninth president, offers study and small-group spaces, an automated reference centre, a technology help centre and a resource centre for career development.1992 年启用、以学校第九任校长命名的约翰·理查森图书馆,设有学习与小组研讨空间、自动化参考中心、技术帮助中心与职业发展资源中心。
- The DePaul Art Museum, founded in 1985 and housed in a 15,000-square-foot building, holds more than 3,000 objects spanning Chicago and regional art, North American and Latin American photography, WPA-era prints, West African art and Eastern European graphic arts, and in February 2026 the university announced that the museum would close in June 2026 amid declining international enrollment and rising costs.德保罗美术馆 1985 年创立,馆舍面积 15,000 平方英尺,藏品逾 3,000 件,涵盖芝加哥及地区艺术、北美与拉丁美洲摄影、WPA 时期版画、西非艺术与东欧版画;2026 年 2 月学校宣布,受国际学生减少与成本上升影响,美术馆将于 2026 年 6 月闭馆。
- The Theatre School building of September 2013, designed by Pelli Clarke Pelli, and the four-storey Arts and Letters Hall of 2011, which earned a Gold certification from the US Green Building Council, are the campus's most recent landmarks.2013 年 9 月落成、佩利·克拉克·佩利建筑事务所设计的戏剧学院大楼,与 2011 年启用并获美国绿色建筑委员会金级认证的四层艺术与文学楼,是校园最新的地标。
- The three-level Student Center, opened in 2002, houses student services, dining facilities, the Saint Louise de Marillac Chapel and offices for student organisations.2002 年启用的三层学生中心内设学生服务、餐饮设施、圣路易丝·德·马里亚克礼拜堂与学生社团办公室。
- On the Loop campus the eleven-storey DePaul Center, fully renovated in 1993 in the building that once held the A. M. Rothschild and Goldblatt's department stores, hosts the Driehaus College of Business, while the College of Law occupies the Lewis Center and O'Malley Place.在卢普区校区,1993 年完成全面改造的 11 层德保罗中心(其建筑曾容纳罗斯柴尔德公司与戈德布拉特百货)是德里豪斯商学院所在地,法学院则占用刘易斯中心与奥马利广场。
- The eighteen-storey University Center of Chicago, opened in 2004 with Roosevelt University and Columbia College Chicago and later joined by Robert Morris University, houses 1,700 students two blocks south of the DePaul Center.2004 年与罗斯福大学、哥伦比亚芝加哥学院合建(后罗伯特莫里斯大学加入)的 18 层芝加哥大学中心,位于德保罗中心以南两个街区,可容纳 1,700 名学生。
Reputation
- In the QS World University Rankings 2027 DePaul is placed in the 1401+ band, the tied segment at the foot of the table rather than a single numbered position.在 2027 年 QS 世界大学排名中,德保罗位于 1401+ 区间,这是榜单末端的并列段而非单独名次。
- It did not enter the 2027 Times Higher Education World University Rankings and is not included in the 2026 Academic Ranking of World Universities main table.该校未进入 2027 年泰晤士高等教育世界大学排名,也未进入 2026 年软科世界大学学术排名主榜。
- The 2026-2027 U.S. News global university ranking lists it 2,099.2026-2027 年度 U.S. News 全球大学榜单列其第 2,099 位。
- In the 2026 U.S. News National Universities ranking DePaul stands 169th in a tie, with 83rd among top private schools and 67th among best value schools.在 2026 年《美国新闻与世界报道》全国大学排名中,德保罗并列第 169 位,顶级私立学校榜列第 83 位,最佳价值学校榜列第 67 位。
- Bibliometric data cited by U.S. News count 2,876 DePaul papers published between 2021 and 2025, with eight citations per publication, a field-weighted citation impact of 1.003 and 51 per cent of papers in the top quartile of journals by CiteScore.《美国新闻与世界报道》引用的文献计量数据显示,德保罗 2021 年至 2025 年间发表论文 2,876 篇,篇均被引 8 次,领域加权引用影响力为 1.003,51% 的论文位于按 CiteScore 计算期刊的前四分之一。
- DePaul became the largest Catholic university in North America by enrollment in 1998, a position built on its founding mission of recruiting first-generation students and those from low-income families.德保罗 1998 年按招生规模成为北美最大的天主教大学,这一地位建立在其招收第一代大学生与低收入家庭学生的创校使命之上。
- The university is classified among R2 doctoral universities, those with high research activity, and is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission.学校被列为 R2 类博士大学(高研究活动型),并持有高等教育委员会的认证。
- Alumni honours include Academy Awards won by Linda Hunt in 1984 and Tarell Alvin McCraney in 2017, a Tony Award for Joe Mantegna, and four alumni on Chicago Tribune teams that won the Pulitzer Prize.校友荣誉包括琳达·亨特 1984 年与塔雷尔·阿尔文·麦克兰尼 2017 年两度获得的奥斯卡奖、乔·曼特格纳获得的托尼奖,以及四位供职于普利策奖获奖团队的《芝加哥论坛报》校友。
- The alumni network numbers more than 225,000, and more than 92 per cent of recent graduates report employment, further study or not seeking work within six months of graduation.校友网络超过 22.5 万人,逾 92% 的应届毕业生在毕业后六个月内处于就业、继续深造或不求职状态。
Student life
- DePaul's motto, adopted with the armorial seal in 1954, is the Latin phrase Viam sapientiae monstrabo tibi, meaning I will show you the way of wisdom, from the Book of Proverbs.德保罗的校训随 1954 年的纹章校印一同启用,为拉丁文「Viam sapientiae monstrabo tibi」,意为「我将指引你智慧之路」,语出《箴言》书。
- The student body voted blue as the school colour in 1901 for what it signifies, loyalty, and the nickname evolved from the monogram D on the early uniforms through the D-men to the Blue Demons, with royal blue and scarlet the university's colours.1901 年学生投票选定蓝色为校色,取其象征的忠诚之意;昵称则从早期队服上的 D 字徽标经「D 人」演变为「蓝魔」,学校校色为宝蓝与猩红。
- The mascot is DIBS, an acronym for Demon In a Blue Suit, who appears at every Blue Demons basketball game and at charity events across the Chicago metropolitan area.学校吉祥物是 DIBS,意为「穿蓝西装的恶魔」,它出现在每一场蓝魔篮球队的比赛和芝加哥都会区的慈善活动上。
- The College of Communication runs four student media organisations: the newspaper The DePaulia, the online magazine 14 East, the 24-hour web station Radio DePaul and the television programme Good Day DePaul.传播学院运营四个学生媒体:报纸《The DePaulia》、网络杂志《14 East》、24 小时网络电台 Radio DePaul 和电视节目 Good Day DePaul。
- More than 350 student organisations operate on campus, and students partner with over 250 community organisations through service learning.全校有 350 多个学生组织,学生通过服务学习与 250 多个社区组织建立合作。
- The men's basketball team, which plays at Wintrust Arena, reached the NCAA Final Four in 1943 and 1979 and won its only national title in the 1945 National Invitation Tournament under coach Ray Meyer.男篮在温特拉斯特体育馆作战,曾于 1943 年与 1979 年两度打入 NCAA 最终四强,并在雷·迈耶执教下赢得 1945 年全国邀请赛冠军,这是学校唯一的全国冠军。
- The women's basketball team has made 25 NCAA tournament appearances, the most of any Division I programme never to reach the Final Four, and has won the Big East tournament six times.女篮 25 次参加 NCAA 锦标赛,是第一级别中参赛最多却从未进入最终四强的球队,并六次夺得大东联盟锦标赛冠军。
- About 90 per cent of DePaul students commuted or lived off campus in 2017, and the university gives students free public transportation passes, a policy behind the second-lowest reported carbon footprint among colleges submitting inventories under the College Sustainability Report Card.2017 年约 90% 的德保罗学生通勤或住在校外,学校向学生提供免费公共交通卡;正是在这项政策的作用下,学校在参加学院可持续发展报告卡评估的院校中拥有报告碳足迹第二低的纪录。
Notable people
- The Rev. Peter V. Byrne, C.M., who took the presidency on 2 January 1899, led the college through its building boom and the 1907 re-chartering as DePaul University, and Byrne Hall on the Lincoln Park campus carries his name.彼得·伯恩神父于 1899 年 1 月 2 日出任校长,带领学校走过大兴土木的时期与 1907 年改组为德保罗大学的转折,林肯公园校区的伯恩楼即以他命名。
- The Rev. Thomas F. Levan, C.M., was among the seven original faculty members who opened St. Vincent's College in 1898.托马斯·莱文神父是 1898 年创办圣文生学院的七位创校教师之一。
- Mark Ignatius Sheridan and William David O'Brien, the two first graduates of 1899, went on to serve as superintendent of the Chicago Water Department and as auxiliary bishop of Chicago and titular archbishop respectively.1899 年首届的两位毕业生马克·谢里登与威廉·奥布莱恩,后来分别出任芝加哥供水局局长和芝加哥辅理主教兼领衔总主教。
- Richard J. Daley, who graduated from the College of Law in 1933, served six terms as mayor of Chicago from 1955 until his death in 1976.1933 年毕业于法学院的理查德·戴利,自 1955 年起六任芝加哥市长,直至 1976 年去世。
- Richard M. Daley, who took a liberal arts degree in 1965 and a law degree in 1968, was mayor of Chicago from 1989 to 2011, and the Daley Building on the Loop campus is named for him and his wife Maggie.理查德·戴利 1965 年获文科学位、1968 年获法律学位,1989 年至 2011 年任芝加哥市长,卢普区校区的戴利楼即以他与夫人玛吉命名。
- Benjamin L. Hooks, who took his law degree at DePaul, was executive director of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People from 1977 to 1992.在德保罗获得法律学位的本杰明·胡克斯,1977 年至 1992 年任全国有色人种协进会执行干事。
- Sam Skinner, a 1966 graduate of the College of Law, served as United States Secretary of Transportation and White House Chief of Staff under President George H. W. Bush.1966 届法学院毕业生萨姆·斯金纳,曾在老布什总统任内出任美国运输部长与白宫幕僚长。
- Juliana Stratton, a 1992 law graduate, is Lieutenant Governor of Illinois, and Natalie Jaresko, a 1987 business graduate, served as Minister of Finance of Ukraine.1992 届法学毕业生朱莉安娜·斯特拉顿现任伊利诺伊州副州长,1987 届商科毕业生纳塔莉·亚列斯科曾任乌克兰财政部长。
- Richard H. Driehaus, who earned his undergraduate degree in 1965 and his MBA in 1970, founded Driehaus Capital Management in 1982 and gave the university $30 million in 2012, then the largest gift in its history.理查德·德里豪斯 1965 年获本科学位、1970 年获工商管理硕士学位,1982 年创办德里豪斯资本管理公司,2012 年向学校捐赠 3,000 万美元,创当时校史最大捐赠纪录。
- George Mikan, the DePaul centre of the 1940s, is one of the 50 greatest players in NBA history, while the alumni Mark Aguirre and Terry Cummings went from DePaul to NBA titles and the 1983 Rookie of the Year award respectively.1940 年代的德保罗中锋乔治·麦肯是 NBA 历史 50 大球员之一;校友马克·阿吉雷与特里·卡明斯从德保罗进入 NBA 后,分别夺得总冠军和 1983 年最佳新秀。
- Ray Manzarek, who graduated from the College of Commerce in 1960, co-founded the rock band The Doors and was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with the band in 1993.1960 年毕业于商学院的雷·曼扎里克是摇滚乐队门户乐队的联合创始人,1993 年随乐队入驻摇滚名人堂。
- Linda Hunt, a 1966 graduate of The Theatre School, won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 1984 for The Year of Living Dangerously, and Tarell Alvin McCraney, a 2003 graduate of the same school, won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay in 2017 for Moonlight.1966 届戏剧学院毕业生琳达·亨特凭《危险年代》获 1984 年奥斯卡最佳女配角奖,2003 届同校毕业生塔雷尔·阿尔文·麦克兰尼凭《月光男孩》获 2017 年奥斯卡最佳改编剧本奖。
- Joe Mantegna and Gillian Anderson, both graduates of The Theatre School, won a Tony Award and Emmy and Golden Globe awards respectively, and Zhu Yunlai, the son of former Chinese Premier Zhu Rongji, took a master's degree in accounting at DePaul before serving as chairman, president and chief executive of China International Capital Corporation.戏剧学院校友乔·曼特格纳与吉莉安·安德森分别获得托尼奖和艾美奖、金球奖;中国前总理朱镕基之子朱云来在德保罗取得会计硕士学位,后任中国国际金融有限公司管委会主席、总裁兼首席执行官。