University Of Illinois At Urbana-Champaign

Location and Contact Information

The campus is in a small city.

Overview

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is a coeducational public research university in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana in east-central Illinois.

Established in 1867 and chartered as the Illinois Industrial University, the school opened its doors one year later. One of the 37 original public land-grant institutions created after Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862, the school was renamed the University of Illinois in 1885.

Also known as UIUC, or Illinois, the school has one of the largest public university collections in the world, with 1,5000,000 volumes in the library system as of 2009.

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign has 150 affiliated centers and institutes performing research for government agencies, industry and campus units.

In its 2010 America's Best Colleges, U.S. News & World Report rated Illinois as the number 9 public university and the number 39 national university. New Mobility magazine ranks Illinois first among "disability-friendly colleges" in the United States.

In 2009, the Graduate School of Library and Information Science program was tied for first in the nation by U.S. News.

Among the university's cultural facilities are the Krannart Center for the Performing Arts, which includes four theaters and hosts student and professional performances and other events.

The university offers more than 150 programs of study through the following academic divisions:

• College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences
• College of Applied Health Sciences
• College of Business
• College of Education
• College of Engineering
• College of Fine and Applied Arts
• College of Law
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• College of Media
• College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign
• College of Veterinary Medicine
• Graduate College
• Graduate School of Library and Information Science
• Institute of Aviation
• School of Labor and Employment Relations
• School of Social Work

The student body at UIUC comes from all 50 states and more than 127 other nations.

The university's Greek system offers more than 65 fraternities and more than 35 sororities. There are 10 men's and 11 women's teams in the NCAA. Athletic teams are known as the Fighting Illinis.

Famous alumni of UIUC include Rosalyn Yalow, Nobel Prize Laureate in Physiology or Medicine; Pulitzer Prize winners Carl Van Doren (biography) and George will (commentary); actors Barbara Bain and Jerry Orbach; Academy Award-winning director Ang Lee; Max Abramowitz, architect (United Nations, Avery Fisher Hall); Suzy Orman, financial advisor, author; James Brady, former White House press secretary, handgun control advocate; and Nancy Brinker, former U.S. Ambassaor, founder of Susan G. Komen for the Cure.

Highlights (vs. Other Schools)

• Many students concentrating in engineering, architecture and planning, music, mathematics, science, and agricultural science and management.
• Large number of programs of study offered.
• Large number of students.
• High faculty salary.
• High SAT scores (combined Verbal and Math).
• High male/female ratio.

School characteristics:

• The school is public.
• Academic calender: Semester.
• Carnegie classification: Doctoral/Research Universities, Extensive.

Features of note:

• The school offers a faculty tenure system.
• There are one or more libraries on-campus.
• Campus housing is available.
• Students have meal (board) plans.
• Students may study abroad.
• Distance learning is available.
• Part-time classes are available.
• ROTC.
• Athlete financial aid is awarded.

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Degrees Awarded (in 2009-2010)

Faculty

Tenure (2009-2010):

Students

Student enrollment was 43,246 in 2009-2010 (46,988 full-time equivalent).

About 52% of the freshmen class in 2009-2010 was male and women were 48% of the class.

Undergrads are 70% of enrolled students and graduate students are 30%.

Students under 25 years old represent 79% of the student body. About 2% of the school is at least 40 years of age.

Among freshmen students, 100% are full-time and 0% are part-time.

Admissions Summary (2009-2010)

SAT Test Scores:

Room and Board

University Of Illinois provides on-campus housing for 8,554 of its 46,988 (full-time) students (as of 2009-2010). The school requires freshmen to live on campus.

Students may purchase a meal plan which includes 20 meals weekly.

Athletics

School sports include football, basketball, baseball, and track. The school is in the Big Ten Conference for major sports.

The school offers financial aid for athletes. Of students receiving athletic financial aid, 196 male students received the aid (men were 55% of those receiving aid) and 159 women were awarded financial aid based on athletics (representing 45% of students receiving such aid) .

Graduate School Focus

University Of Illinois offers graduate (post-Bachelor) studies. The highest degree offered is the Doctorate (Research/Scholarship & Professional Practice).

Graduate offerings include continuing professional education and medical degrees.The school's Graduate School Carnegie Classification is Comprehensive Doctoral With Medical/Veterinary.

Programs of Study

(Number of degrees in 2009-2010 in parentheses)

AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE AND MANAGEMENT (345 awarded)

• Agricultural Business and Management
• Agricultural Communication/Journalism
• Agricultural Economics
• Agricultural Mechanization
• Food Science

ANIMAL SCIENCE AND CARE (173 awarded)

• Animal Sciences

ARCHITECTURE AND PLANNING (328 awarded)

• Architecture (BArch, BA/BS, MArch, MA/MS, PhD)
• Architecture and Related Services
• City/Urban, Community and Regional Planning
• Landscape Architecture (BS, BSLA, BLA, MSLA, MLA, PhD)

BUSINESS AND MANAGEMENT (1,825 awarded)

• Accounting
• Actuarial Science
• Business Administration and Management
• Business Administration, Management and Operations
• Business, Management, Marketing & Related Support Services
• Finance
• Labor and Industrial Relations
• Logistics and Materials Management
• Management Information Systems
• Marketing
• Marketing/Marketing Management
• Operations Management and Supervision
• Taxation

COMPUTER SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING (335 awarded)

• Computer Engineering
• Computer Science

CONSERVATION AND RESOURCE MANAGEMENT (70 awarded)

• Environmental Science

DESIGN (55 awarded)

• Graphic Design
• Industrial Design

DRAMA AND PERFORMING ARTS (66 awarded)

• Dance
• Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts

EDUCATION AND TEACHING (624 awarded)

• Agricultural Teacher Education
• Art Teacher Education
• Biology Teacher Education
• Chemistry Teacher Education
• Curriculum and Instruction
• Early Childhood Education and Teaching
• Education
• Educational Leadership and Administration
• Elementary Education and Teaching
• English/Language Arts Teacher Education
• Foreign Language Teacher Education
• French Language Teacher Education
• German Language Teacher Education
• Latin Teacher Education
• Mathematics Teacher Education
• Music Teacher Education
• Physical Education Teaching and Coaching
• Physics Teacher Education
• Science Teacher Education/General Science Teacher Education
• Secondary Education and Teaching
• Social Studies Teacher Education
• Social and Philosophical Foundations of Education
• Spanish Language Teacher Education
• Special Education and Teaching
• Speech Teacher Education
• Teaching English as Second/Foreign Language/ESL Language Instructor
• Technical Teacher Education

ENGINEERING (1,394 awarded)

• Aerospace, Aeronautical and Astronautical Engineering
• Agricultural/Biological Engineering and Bioengineering
• Biomedical/Medical Engineering
• Ceramic Sciences and Engineering
• Chemical Engineering
• Civil Engineering
• Electrical, Electronics and Communications Engineering
• Engineering Mechanics
• Engineering Physics
• Engineering
• Engineering/Industrial Management
• Environmental/Environmental Health Engineering
• Industrial Engineering
• Materials Science
• Mechanical Engineering
• Nuclear Engineering
• Systems Engineering

FAMILY AND SOCIAL WORK (195 awarded)

• Community Organization and Advocacy
• Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Sciences
• Human Development and Family Studies
• Public Administration
• Social Work

FINE ARTS (86 awarded)

• Art History, Criticism and Conservation
• Crafts/Craft Design, Folk Art and Artisanry
• Fine/Studio Arts
• Painting
• Sculpture

LANDSCAPING AND HORTICULTURE (61 awarded)

• Agronomy and Crop Science
• Horticultural Science
• Ornamental Horticulture

LAW (232 awarded)

• Advanced Legal Research/Studies, Gen (LLM, MCL, MLI, MSL, JSD/SJD)
• Comparative Law (LLM, MCL, JSD/SJD)
• Law (LLB, JD)
• Legal Professions and Studies

LIBERAL ARTS (2,260 awarded)

• African Studies
• African-American/Black Studies
• Anthropology
• Area Studies
• Asian Studies/Civilization
• Classics/Classical Languages, Lit & Linguistics
• Comparative Literature
• Creative Writing
• East Asian Studies
• Economics
• English Composition
• English Language and Literature
• Ethnic, Cultural Minority, and Gender Studies
• French Language and Literature
• Geography
• German Language and Literature
• History
• Humanities/Humanistic Studies
• Italian Language and Literature
• Latin American Studies
• Liberal Arts and Sciences, General Studies and Humanities
• Liberal Arts and Sciences/Liberal Studies
• Library Science/Librarianship
• Linguistics
• Political Science and Government
• Portuguese Language and Literature
• Russian Language and Literature
• Russian Studies
• Slavic Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics
• Sociology
• Spanish Language and Literature
• Speech and Rhetorical Studies

MATHEMATICS (222 awarded)

• Applied Mathematics
• Mathematics and Computer Science
• Mathematics
• Statistics
• Systems Science and Theory

MEDIA (396 awarded)

• Advertising
• Broadcast Journalism
• Communication Studies/Speech Communication and Rhetoric
• Journalism
• Mass Communication/Media Studies

MEDICAL ADMINISTRATION (186 awarded)

• Community Health and Preventive Medicine

MEDICAL SUPPORT AND TECHNOLOGY (115 awarded)

• Audiology/Audiologist and Speech-Language Pathology/Pathologist
• Health Services/Allied Health/Health Sciences

MEDICINE (124 awarded)

• Neuroscience
• Pre-Veterinary Studies
• Public Health, General (MPH, DPH)
• Veterinary Medicine (DVM)
• Veterinary Sciences/Veterinary Clinical Sci, Gen (Cert,MS,PhD)

MUSIC (150 awarded)

• Jazz/Jazz Studies
• Music History, Literature, and Theory
• Music Performance
• Music Theory and Composition
• Music
• Musicology and Ethnomusicology
• Voice and Opera

NUTRITION AND EXERCISE THERAPY (351 awarded)

• Athletic Training/Trainer
• Kinesiology and Exercise Science
• Nutrition Sciences
• Parks, Recreation and Leisure Studies
• Rehabilitation and Therapeutic Professions

PHOTOGRAPHY AND COMMERCIAL ART (8 awarded)

• Intermedia/Multimedia
• Photography

RELIGION AND PHILOSOPHY (39 awarded)

• Philosophy
• Religion/Religious Studies

SCIENCE (988 awarded)

• Astronomy
• Atmospheric Sciences and Meteorology
• Biochemistry
• Bioinformatics
• Biological and Biomedical Sciences
• Biology/Biological Sciences
• Biophysics
• Biotechnology
• Botany/Plant Biology
• Cell/Cellular Biology and Histology
• Cell/Cellular and Molecular Biology
• Chemical Physics
• Chemistry
• Ecology
• Ecology, Evolution, Systematics and Population Biology
• Entomology
• Geology/Earth Science
• Microbiology
• Physics
• Physiology

THERAPY AND COUNSELING (540 awarded)

• Educational Psychology
• Industrial and Organizational Psychology
• Psychology

TRANSPORTATION (11 awarded)

• Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot and Flight Crew