University of Illinois

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."