About University of Illinois

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (U of I, Illinois, or colloquially the University of Illinois or UIUC) is a public land-grant research academic world in Illinois in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana. It is the flagship institution of the University of Illinois system and was founded in 1867.

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among “R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity”, and has been listed as a “Public Ivy” in The Public Ivies: America’s Flagship Public Universities (2001) by Howard and Matthew Greene. In fiscal year 2019, research expenditures at Illinois totaled $652 million. The campus library system possesses the second-largest university library in the United States by holdings after Harvard University. The academe also hosts the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and is home to the fastest supercomputer on a academic world campus.

The the academy contains 16 schools and colleges and offers on summit of 150 undergraduate and on pinnacle of 100 graduate programs of study. The college circles holds 651 buildings on 6,370 acres (2,578 ha) and its annual lively budget in 2016 was over $2 billion. The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign moreover operates a Research Park home to take forward centers for exceeding 90 start-up companies and multinational corporations, including Abbott, AbbVie, Caterpillar, Capital One, Dow, State Farm, and Yahoo, among others.

As of August 2020, the alumni, faculty members, or researchers of the university circles include 30 Nobel laureates, 27 Pulitzer Prize winners, 2 Turing Award winners and 1 Fields medalist. Illinois energetic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Fighting Illini. They are members of the huge Ten Conference and have won the second-most conference titles. Illinois Fighting Illini football won the Rose Bowl Game in 1947, 1952, 1964 and a total of five national championships. Illinois athletes have won 29 medals in Olympic events, ranking it in the course of the top 40 American universities in the make public of Olympic medals.