About University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

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 college circles 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 aficionada 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 academic circles library in the United States by holdings after Harvard University. The academic circles also hosts the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and is house to the fastest supercomputer on a academic circles campus.

The academic circles contains 16 schools and colleges and offers over 150 undergraduate and greater than 100 graduate programs of study. The academe holds 651 buildings upon 6,370 acres (2,578 ha) and its annual working budget in 2016 was over $2 billion. The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in addition to operates a Research Park home to proceed centers for more than 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 academic circles include 30 Nobel laureates, 27 Pulitzer Prize winners, 2 Turing Award winners and 1 Fields medalist. Illinois lithe teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Fighting Illini. They are members of the Big 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 summit 40 American universities later than Olympic medals.

Champaign (English: /ˌʃæmˈpeɪn/) is a city in Champaign County, Illinois, United States. The United States Census Bureau estimates the city was home to 88,909 people as of July 1, 2019. Champaign is the ninth-most populous city in Illinois, and the state’s fourth-most populous city outdoor the Chicago metropolitan area. It is included in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area.

Champaign is notable for sharing the campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign following its sister city of Urbana. Champaign is also home to Parkland College which serves virtually 18,000 students during the academic year. Due to the college circles and a number of with ease known technology startup companies, it is often referred to as the hub, or a significant landmark, of the Silicon Prairie. Champaign houses offices for the Fortune 500 companies Abbott, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM), Caterpillar, John Deere, Dow Chemical Company, IBM, and State Farm.