Rush University is a private university that was founded in 1972 and is located in Chicago, Illinois. The university has an enrolment of approximately 1,500 students and it comprises of the Medical College, College of Nursing, College of Health Sciences and Graduate College of Rush University. Through these colleges it offers bachelors and masters degrees in the fields of medicine, health sciences, nursing, neuroscience, immunology and virology, pharmacology and molecular bio physics and physiology. The university also awards doctoral degrees and post-masters certificates in various fields.