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BACK TO WHERE IT ALL BEGAN April 29–May 2, 2027 · Hyde Park, Chicago Start planning ↗
Guests walking beneath maroon and white balloons at Alumni Weekend 2025

ALUMNI WEEKEND · APRIL 29–MAY 2, 2027

A place for every kind of curiosity.

Some places stay with you.
Come back and see what happens next.

Your weekend begins here
A LOOK BACK AT ALUMNI WEEKEND 2025
Alumni and family enjoying a sunny day on campus in 2025

01 / ARRIVE

Familiar paths.
Fresh perspectives.

The walk across the Quad. A favourite corner of campus. The feeling of being here again.

Return to the places that shaped your UChicago story, then discover the spaces, people and ideas that are writing its next chapter.

Hyde Park community

Make time for neighbourhood favourites and explore the University’s connections with its local community.

Find your way back →
Alumni continuing a conversation after a faculty event in 2025

02 / DISCOVER

Still asking
the big questions.

Curiosity doesn’t end at graduation. Bring yours back.

Climate, energy and technology

Explore the research and ideas shaping everyday life, and return to the conversations that make you think differently.

Free expression and rigorous inquiry

Reconnect with the academic values at the heart of the University: questioning assumptions, exchanging perspectives and following an idea further.

Explore the events →
Four friends celebrating together at Alumni Weekend 2025

THE YEARS GO BY. THE CONNECTION STAYS.

Pick up
where you left off.

Alumni gathering beneath balloons at the 2025 Picnic on the Quad

03 / RECONNECT

Your people.
Another chapter.

A familiar face. A shared memory. A conversation you didn’t know you needed.

Catch up with classmates, meet fellow alumni and make room for new connections. Alumni Weekend brings your community back together, with plenty of stories still to tell.

Is it your reunion year?

In 2027, College classes ending in 2 and 7 celebrate their reunions.

Find your people →

A look back, an invitation forward. Photographs from Alumni Weekend 2025 ↗. Explore events for programme updates.

Alumni Weekend 2027 · April 29–May 2

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