About the University // Academics
The University of Illinois consistently ranks among the top public
universities in the nation. The campuses in Urbana-Champaign, Chicago
and Springfield offer hundreds of undergraduate, graduate and professional
programs, many of them among the best in the United States and taught
by nationally and internationally respected faculty. In fact, eleven
Nobel Prize winners have served on the University of Illinois faculty.
The new online Global Campus initiative will make Illinois-quality
degree programs available around the world.
Admission to the University is selective and based on factors that
best predict a student's likelihood of success in a competitive academic
environment.
Highlights
- In 2007 U.S. News & World Report ranked many undergraduate
programs at Urbana-Champaign in the top 10 in the country including
accountancy 2nd, agricultural engineering 1st, civil engineering
1st, computer engineering 5th, engineering science/physics 2nd,
materials science 1st, and real estate 7th.
- In 2007 U.S. News & World Report ranked Urbana graduate programs
highly including accountancy 1st, civil engineering 1st, curriculum/instruction
4th, and library science 1st.
- Forty-eight faculty members from Chicago and Urbana are listed
as among the most cited researchers in their fields by ISI.
- Business faculty at the UIC were tied for first place in the Faculty
Scholarly Productivity Index reported in early 2007 and based on
2005 information.
- The Springfield campus has the second-highest academic profile
of first-year students among Illinois' 12 public campuses.
- In 2003, the University of Illinois earned the distinction of
being the only U.S. public university to have two of its faculty
members win Nobel prizes in the same year.
- Success Magazine ranked UIC's College of Business Administration
3rd in "Top Business Schools for Entrepreneurship."