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Shimer College is an American special Books college in Chicago, Illinois. Establish in 1853 as the Mt. Carroll Seminary in Mount Carroll, Illinois, the school became affiliated with the University of Chicago and was renamed the Frances Shimer Academy in 1896. It was renamed Shimer College in 1950, when it start providing a four-year curriculum aboriginal on the Hutchins Plan of the University of Chicago. Although the University of Chicago parted with Shimer (and the Hutchins Plan) in 1958, Shimer has regular to use a kind of that curriculum. The college left Mount Carroll for Waukegan in 1978, transferring to Chicago in 2006.

Its educational program is built on a core curriculum of sixteen wanted courses in the humankind/humanities in 1978, moving to Chicago in 2006. 

All courses are small same with no more than twelve students, and are build on original sources from a list of about 200 core texts broadly based on the Great Books canon. Classroom instruction is Socratic conversation. Substantial writing is need, including two comprehensive examinations and a high ranking thesis. Students are acknowledging fundamentally on the basis of essays and interviews; no minimum grades or test scores are needed. Shimer has one of the biggest alumni doctorate rates in the country. 

The college occupies a compound outline by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe on the major campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) in the Bronzeville neighborhood of Chicago's Near South Side. The American Institute of Architects has called the IIT campus one of the 200 most remarkable works of architecture in the United States, and it was added to the National index of Historic Places in 2005.

Campus
Shimer is located on the major campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology. IIT's 120-acre (48.6 ha) campus is at the intersection of 33rd and State Streets, about three miles (4.8 km) south of the Chicago Loop, and borders the Bridgeport and bronzeville neighborhoods of Chicago's Near South Side. In 1976 the American Institute of Architects named the IIT campus one of the 200 most remarkable works of architecture in the United States, and it was added to the National index of Historic Places in 2005.

 Shimer occupies 17,000 square feet (1,580 m2) on two floors of the former Institute of Gas Technology compound. 

The complex, outline by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, cover of four buildings (the southernmost formerly arrange the first industrial nuclear reactor in the U.S.) The college has access to the Paul V. Galvin Library, IIT's main research library, and Shimer's collection of 15,000 books has also been housed in the Galvin Library since the school migrates from Waukegan.