The university's educational system consists of three main parts: the undergraduate college; the four graduate divisions of biological sciences, humanities, physical sciences and social sciences; and the seven professional schools: the Graduate School of Business, the Divinity School, the Law School, the Graduate Library School, the Pritzker School of Medicine, the Graduate School of Public Policy Studies and the School of Social Services Administration.
就芝大本身的教育體系來分，它有三個主要部分：一是大學部；二是四大研究部門﹘﹘生物科學、人文科學、物理學，及社會科學；三是七所專業研究院﹘﹘商學院、神學院、法學院、圖書館學院、醫學院、社會服務及管理學院、公共政策研究學院。