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, including
Nobel laureates and Pulitzer prize winners and MacArthur fellows.
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 its 2011 rankings, U.S.News & World Report's America's Best Colleges rated the Urbana campus as the number 15 public university and the number 47 national university.
- National Science Foundation statistics on federal research funding
consistently rank the Chicago and Urbana campuses among the top 50 of more than
637 national universities.
- For the third year in a row, U.S. News & World Report's America's Best Colleges
ranked the University of Illinois at Springfield as the top regional public university
in Illinois and tied for fourth best public university in the Midwest.
Both rankings are in the Master's category for the Midwest, defined by
U.S. News & World Report as those institutions by region that offer a
full range of undergraduate programs and some master's but few doctoral programs.
- Klaus Müller-Bergh, UIC professor emeritus of Hispanic and Italian studies, received one of Spain’s highest honors in recognition of his devotion to promoting Spanish and Latin American culture. Müller-Bergh was honored in 2010 with the Order of Isabella the Catholic, which is conferred by the king of Spain.
- In 2010, the Wall Street Journal ranked the Urbana campus 3rd nationally in terms of quality of undergraduates, as reported by corporate recruiters. Also in 2010, The Times Higher Education World University Rankings listed the Urbana campus as 33rd in the world, 8th among American public universities.
- U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks UIC in the top 10 most racially diverse universities in the nation.
Their methodology factors the total proportion of American minority students
and the overall mix of groups.
- UIS was recognized with two awards for excellence and leadership in online learning by the Sloan Consortium
in 2010. The Master of Arts in Teacher Leadership (MTL) was named as the 2010 Outstanding Online Program , and Ray Schroeder, director of the Center for Online Learning Research and Service (COLRS), received the A. Frank Mayadas Leadership Award.
- The UIC College of Medicine at Peoria, a regional campus of the UIC College of Medicine, and Peoria's OSF Saint Francis Medical Center announced receipt of a shared donation of $25 million to fund the Jump Trading Simulation and Conference Education Center that will house a state-of-the-art simulation laboratory with high-tech patient-simulator mannequins, virtual-reality technology and on-screen simulations.
- Ten UIC undergraduate students were awarded Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships to study abroad during the 2010-11 academic year.
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WUIS/Illinois Public Radio statehouse reporter Amanda Vinicky was selected by the German-American Fulbright Commission spent a week learning about media and politics in Germany in 2009.
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