University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is the states flagship institution: a classic land-grant university, dedicated to its traditional excellence in education, research, and public engagement, and driven to innovate in each of these missions.More than 1,970 Urbana-Champaign faculty members lead more than 45,000 undergraduate, graduate and professional students in a process of discovery and learning in 15 colleges and schools and more than 80 research centers and labs. Undergraduates make up three-quarters of the student population. Roughly 70 percent of the undergraduate students come from the 102 counties of Illinois, with the rest traveling to Illinois from all 50 states and more than 100 nations. All are highly qualified and choose between 150 undergraduate programs of study. The middle 50 percent of freshmen at Illinois score between 26 and 30 on the ACT, and these same students ranked between the 84th and 96th percentile in their high school graduating classes. Undergraduate students often travel around the globe through one of the top ten study abroad programs among major research institutions in the United States.Faculty members also are well connected internationally, collaborating with other top scholars from around the world and across disciplines. They are world-renowned scholars who have been recognized with such top awards as Nobel Prizes, Pulitzer Prizes, Guggenheim Fellowships, Tony Awards, MacArthur "genius" awards, and memberships in the nations elite academies of arts and sciences. Of twelve Nobel laureates who have served on the faculty, two were honored for work undertaken at this University. Illinois became only the third American public university, and the eleventh institution in the world, ever to have two Nobel Prizes (in different fields) awarded to members of its faculty in the same year. Urbana campus alumni are similarly recognized. Eleven University alumni have won Nobel Prizes.Campus resources include the worlds largest public university library, with millions of items circulated and hundreds of thousands of reference questions answered each year. Outstanding centers for performance and training in the arts include one of the nations best performing arts facilities, the Krannert Center. World-class research facilities in Urbana include the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, Beckman Institute, Institute for Genomic Biology and Siebel Center for Computer Science.Of course, many people across the nation know Urbana-Champaign as the home of nine mens and 10 womens Big Ten sports teams. The campus Division of Intercollegiate Athletics is know for its integrity and its emphasis on scholarship among its athletes. Mens basketball and football are high profile sports, but Illinois also has won recent national and conference champions in such programs as gymnastics, tennis, and wrestling.

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School Details

school_type year_founded religious_affiliation academic_calendar year_2016_endowment address telephone
Public, Coed 1867 N/A Semester $1.6 billion 601 E. John Street, Champaign, IL 61820 (217) 333-1000
overall score total score state city online paying global
63 100.0 Illinois Champaign 1114 24 11

Student Life List

Total Enrollment live On Campus Description
46,951 50% University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign has a total undergraduate enrollment of 33,932, with a gender distribution of 55 percent male students and 45 percent female students. At this school, 50 percent of the students live in college-owned, -operated or -affiliated housing and 50 percent of students live off campus. In sports, University of Illinois--Urbana-Champaign is part of the NCAA I.

Student Body

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Total enrollment 46,951
Total undergraduate enrollment 33,932
Total graduate enrollment 13,019
Enrolled students who are veterans or active service members N/A

Degree-seeking student gender distribution

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Degree-seeking men 54.8%

Housing

Students living on- and off-campus

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Students who live in college-owned, operated or affiliated housing 50%
Students who live off-campus 50%

Types of campus housing available

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coed dorms
women's dorms
men's dorms
sorority housing
fraternity housing
apartments for married students
apartment for single students
special housing for disabled students
cooperative housing
theme housing
wellness housing
other housing options

Sports

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Collegiate athletic association NCAA I

Clubs & Organizations

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Undergraduate men who are members of a fraternity N/A
Undergraduate women who are members of a sorority N/A
Air Force ROTC Offered on campus
Army ROTC Offered on campus
Navy ROTC Offered on campus