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
- The 2009 U.S. News & World Report ranks many undergraduate and graduate
programs at Urbana in the top 10 in the country. At the undergraduate level is
engineering (tied for 4th) and at the graduate level is computer science (5th);
engineering (5th); chemistry (tied for 7th); and physics.
- 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.
- U.S. News & World Report's 2009 Edition of America's Best Colleges
ranks the University of Illinois at Springfield as the best 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.
- The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranks the Urbana campus
26th out of 503 international institutions. Additionally,
the campus ranks among the top 100 international institutions in
the following discipline categories: natural sciences and mathematics;
engineering and computer science; life and agriculture; and social sciences.
- U.S. News & World Report consistently ranks the University of Illinois
at Chicago 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.
- The University of Illinois at Springfield was awarded a
2008 Ralph E. Gomory Award for Quality Online Education presented by
The Sloan Consortium (Sloan-C).
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