University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign

Colleges University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign

UIUC

UIUC

www.illinois.edu

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location students adm. int’l. fresh grad GPA ACT SAT TOEFL
Champaign, IL 34,779 63% 14% 93% 72% 3.8 30 1340 100+

University of Illinois—Urbana-Champaign is a public institution that was founded in 1867. The campus size is 1,783 acres and is located in the twin cities of Urbana and Champaign in east-central Illinois, only a few hours from Chicago, Indianapolis and St. Louis. It’s not hard to find something to do on campus with more than 1,600 student organizations, including professional, political and philanthropic clubs. Outstanding centers for performance and training in the arts include one of the nation’s best performing arts facilities, the Krannert Center.

Academics

Learn to dance from a Broadway veteran, hone your writing skills with a Pulitzer Prize winner, learn about engineering from a MacArthur genius or learn physics from a Nobel Prize winner. We have 16 colleges and instructional units that provide more than 150 undergraduate programs and more than 100 graduate and professional fields of study. UIUC’s student-faculty ratio is 20:1, and the school has 38% of its classes with fewer than 20 students. Popular majors include Research and Experimental Psychology, Economics, and Accounting.

Special Highlights

Research Park. The Research Park at the University of Illinois is a leading technology hub that cultivates startups and accelerates corporate innovation. Research Park has more than 120+ companies and growing, employing more than 2,000 people in high-technology careers. At any given time more than 800 student interns are gaining valuable experiential learning and work experience while making real contributions to internal corporate R&D and product development programs.

Illinois Abroad & Global Exchange. Our campus study abroad office facilitates education abroad programs in locations around the world. We believe that international education is transformative. Not only does it foster global competencies, but also allows our students to enhance their skill-sets, broaden their perspectives, and gain a deeper understanding of their given fields. Our programs are open to students from all academic fields, backgrounds, and identities.

School Mission & Unique Qualities

UIUC is a school with the highest level of research activity, according to the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. The University Library is one of the largest public university collections in the world with 13 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries. Entrepreneurship flows from the classrooms to Research Park, a space that houses everything from Fortune 500 companies to student-founded startups. The Activities and Recreation Center is one of the largest recreational facilities of its kind on a university campus.

Student Reviews…

“There is a Quad surrounded by red-brick buildings where you can have picnics, play, or just relax. The nearby Japan House has a garden with cherry blossoms. It’s a great college town, and there is always something to do. Beautiful environment and high quality education.”