The success of our faculty is matched by that of our alumni: 11 are Nobel Laureates and another 18 have won Pulitzer Prizes. Academic resources on campus are among the finest in the world.
Annually, 53,, people visit its online catalog. Students have access to thousands of computer terminals in classrooms, residence halls, and campus libraries for use in classroom instruction, study, and research. At Illinois, our focus on research shapes our identity, permeates our classrooms and fuels our outreach.
Fostering discovery and innovation is our fundamental mission. As a public, land-grant university, we have the responsibility to create new knowledge and new ideas and translate these into better ways of working, living and learning for our state, nation and world. The university is one of the original 37 public land-grant institutions that were founded when Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in The libraries at the university hold one of the biggest collections of any public library in the US, with some 13 million volumes across nearly 40 library sites.
Its Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion contain nearly 10, works of art, while the Spurlock Museum has 46,00 artefacts from around the world.
There are 23 halls of residence at the university — enough to accommodate more than 8, students. The university takes its name from the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana, which have a combined population of , and are located about miles north of St Louis and miles south of Chicago. Log in Username. Password Forgotten password? You must have JavaScript enabled to use this form. Email address. Confirm password. Demand for a public university education in Chicago remained high, even after the first wave of veterans passed, so the university made plans to create a permanent degree-granting campus in the Chicago area.
After a long and controversial site decision process, Mayor Richard J. Daley in offered the Harrison and Halsted streets location on the city's historic Near West Side for the new campus. Unlike the Navy Pier campus, "Circle" was a degree-granting institution, with ambitions to become a great university.
Many of the newly recruited faculty came because it was connected to a strong research university and they pushed for rapid development into a research-oriented school emphasizing graduate instruction. Within five years of the campus' opening, virtually every department offered graduate degrees. The merger strengthened the university's potential for scholarly excellence and pushed UIC to Carnegie Research 1 institution status in UIC is a comprehensive research institution that ranks in the top 50 universities nationally for research and development dollars spent in science and engineering.
In , UIC expanded with the development of south campus, providing increased residential student living space and research facilities. Through its history, UIC has been a leader in the creation of a new model of higher education: the comprehensive urban research university. Learn more about the history of the University of Illinois Chicago. The campus occupies acres located six miles southeast of Springfield.
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