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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

EducationWorld April 2019 | Institution Profile US
The most prestigious of three institutions under the University of Illinois system, UIUC is rated #13 among US public universities by U.S. News & World Report Founded in 1867, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) is an American public research varsity consistently ranked among the world’s Top 100 by reputed international rating agencies. The London-based Times Higher Education ranks UIUC #50 in its World University Rankings 2019, and Quacquarelli Symonds (QS) #71 in its 2019 global league table. The largest and most prestigious of three institutions under the University of Illinois system — the other two are Chicago and Springfield — UIUC is also rated #13 among US public universities by U.S. News & World Report in its America’s Best Colleges Rankings 2019. Moreover its study programmes in library and information science and condensed matter physics are ranked #1 in the US. Sited in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana (total pop. 207,000) in the state of Illinois, UIUC is one of 37 public land-grant institutions established by President Abraham Lincoln under the Morrill Act, 1862. Founded as the Illinois Industrial University, it was renamed UIUC in 1885. Highly reputed for academic and research excellence, the university has produced 24 Nobel laureates and 26 Pulitzer Prize winners over the past 150 years. Currently, UIUC’s 16 colleges offer over 250 study programmes to 33,000 undergraduate and 15,500 postgraduate students mentored by 3,000 highly-qualified faculty. Urbana-Champaign. Located 284 km north of St. Louis and 222 km south of Chicago, Urbana-Champaign are twin cities, ranked #4 in the US for college students by CityLab, for its “big city amenities and small-town affordability, accessibility, safety and friendliness”. Served by an enviable public transport system, students have easy and rapid access to the major metros of Chicago and Indianapolis. But with its 80 public parks and three large forest reserves, the twin cities offer an array of outdoor activity options such as hiking, biking, fishing, swimming, boating, camping and cross-country skiing. It also offers a lively nightlife with a wide variety of restaurants serving a range of cuisines, recreational opportunities, unique museums and great theatre and music festivals. The coldest month is January (0°C) and the hottest, July (24°C). Campus facilities. Set on a sprawling 6,370-acre campus, UIUC offers world-class academic and research facilities, superbly equipped laboratories and classrooms with 24×7 wireless Internet access. It’s also one of the most disabled-friendly campuses worldwide, providing students with disabilities access to all university services and facilities including a wheelchair-accessible bus system. The university’s library system houses 13 million volumes in its 37 unit libraries and is famed for its rare engineering and agriculture manuscripts which attract over a million visitors every week. The university’s Krannert Center for the Performing Arts hosts four theatres with a seating capacity of 4,000. Its two museums — the Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion — contain 10,000 works of art and the Spurlock Museum houses 54,000 artefacts. The UIUC campus also contains a research park which hosts innovation centres for
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