University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign (U of I, UIUC, or simply Illinois) is a public research university in the state of Illinois, United States. It is the oldest, largest, and most prestigious campus in the University of Illinois system. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is the second oldest public university in the state, second to Illinois State University.

The university comprises 17 colleges that offer more than 150 programs of study. Additionally, the university operates an extension that serves 2.7 million registrants per year around the state of Illinois and beyond. The campus holds 286 buildings on 1,468 acres (6 km²) in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana, and has an annual budget of nearly $1.5 billion.
The undergraduate program was ranked 47th among national universities and 15th among public universities by U.S. News & World Report in their 2011 rankings. The College of Engineering is ranked fifth, after Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Stanford University, Georgia Institute of Technology, and University of California-Berkeley with many of its programs ranked within the top three in the nation.[6]According to the 2009 Academic Ranking of World Universities, the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign ranked 25th out of the more than 1000 international institutions recognized. It is also home to some of the highest-ranked Computer Science, Library and Information Science, Accounting, and Psychology programs in the United States.

Enrollment in the fall of 2007 was 42,326, which included students from all 50 states and more than 127 nations. Of these, 30,895 were undergraduates and 11,431 were graduate students. As recently as the Fall 2007 term, Illinois was on the list of the ten largest universities by undergraduate enrollment in the United States, but that is no longer the case, as other schools—especially in Florida—have expanded more rapidly.

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Rankings in 2010

• TOP 200 UNDERGRADUATE BUSINESS PROGRAM IN 2010
• ELECTRICAL ENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Rankings in 2011

• BEST BUSINESS GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKING IN 2011
• TOP 100 LAW SCHOOLS IN 2011
• TOP 100 GRADUATE COMPUTER ENGINEERING SCHOOL RANKINGS IN 2011
• MATERIALS GRADUATE SCHOOL RANKINGS IN 2011
• POLITICAL SCIENCE GRADUATE COLLEGE RANKINGS IN 2011
• WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS IN 2011-2012
• 2011-2012 TOP 200 COLLEGES IN UNITED STATES
• QS WORLD UNIVERSITY RANKINGS 2011
• FORBES AMERICAN’S BEST COLLEGE RANKINGS IN 2011
•  TOP ENGINEERING GRADUATE SCHOOLS RANKING IN 2011-2012
• 2011 TOP MUSIC SCHOOL RANKING
• 2011 TOP PUBLIC COLLEGE & UNIVERSITY RANKINGS IN UNITED STATES

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign Tuition and Fees

Summer 2010 Term

* Non-residents registered for zero credits are assessed at the resident rate.

2010 – 2011 Academic Year

Schools of University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• College of Agricultural, Consumer and Environmental Sciences
• College of Applied Health Sciences
• Institute of Aviation
• College of Business
• College of Education
• College of Engineering
• College of Fine and Applied Arts
• Division of General Studies
• Graduate College
• School of Labor and Employment Relations
• College of Law
• College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
• Graduate School of Library and Information Science
• College of Media
• College of Medicine at Urbana-Champaign
• School of Social Work
• College of Veterinary Medicine

University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

• June is Dairy Month: Consumers win with dairy products - Fri, 18 May 2012
  Consumers have reason to celebrate the approach of June, which is Dairy Month, said a University of Illinois professor of animal sciences emeritus."The cost of dairy products has dropped in many markets because the price paid dairy farmers has dropped 20 percent at the farm gate," said Mike Hutjens. "This lower farm milk price has led to 'good dairy buys' with milk available at $2.50 per gallon and butter at $2 a pound in selected markets."

• June is Dairy Month, and dairy producers are challenged - Fri, 18 May 2012
  June is the month that celebrates dairy production, dairy farmers, and dairy products, said Michael Hutjens, a University of Illinois professor emeritus of animal sciences."The dairy industry is big business in the United States with farm cash receipts totaling 31.4 billion dollars in 2010. This represented 10.2 percent of all farm cash receipts," he said.

• Amazing ant facts - Tue, 15 May 2012
  There are an estimated ten thousand trillion ants worldwide, and they weigh roughly the same as all of humanity, according to University of Illinois Extension horticulture specialist Ron Wolford.

• Great recession reflux amounts to more hunger among seniors - Mon, 14 May 2012
  A new study that looked at the hunger trends over a 10-year period found that 14.85 percent of seniors in the United States, more than one in seven, face the threat of hunger. This translates into 8.3 million seniors.

• Corn market direction unfolding, magnitude still uncertain - Mon, 14 May 2012
  The USDA's projections of U.S. and world corn and feed grain supply-and-demand conditions presented in the May World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report set the benchmark by which the corn market will judge unfolding events. According to a University of Illinois agricultural economist, those events are continually unfolding, with some of the more important ones to be revealed this summer.

• Study sheds new light on importance of human breast milk ingredient - Mon, 14 May 2012
  A new University of Illinois study shows that human milk oligosaccharides, or HMO, produce short-chain fatty acids that feed a beneficial microbial population in the infant gut. Not only that, the bacterial composition adjusts as the baby grows older and its needs change.

• From garden to vase - Mon, 14 May 2012
  URBANA — A colorful flower border is a source of pleasure while you are walking in the garden or sitting on the patio or porch."The other pleasure is to be able to take those flowers and bring them indoors to enjoy," said University of Illinois Extension horticulture educator Greg Stack. "The cutting garden allows you to do both."

• Corn prices in three parts - Mon, 07 May 2012
  Corn prices have recently moved in three distinct patterns. These include the patterns for new-crop futures, old-crop futures, and old-crop cash prices, according to University of Illinois agricultural economist Darrel Good.

• Award helps students attend professional summit - Fri, 04 May 2012
  The Illini Agricultural Communicators of Tomorrow (ACT) chapter will be honored with the Yamaha-ACT Chapter Scholarship at the 2012 Agricultural Media Summit (AMS).The award, provided by Yamaha Motor Corporation, U.S.A., offsets travel expenses to attend the summit in Albuquerque, N.M. AMS is a joint meeting of the American Agricultural Editor's Association (AAEA), Livestock Publications Council (LPC) and the American Business Media Agri-Council. ACT also holds their national annual meeting at this summit. Students will attend a variety of industry workshops and educational sessions over the three-day event.

• Leadership conference highlights action planning - Mon, 30 Apr 2012
  The 14th Annual Illinois Leadership Conference will be held Wednesday, June 6, from 8:30 a.m. to 4 p.m. at the Keller Convention Center in Effingham. "This year's theme is Vision into Action. It's an action-packed, highly interactive workshop that will leave you with a road map for your community or organization," said University of Illinois Extension specialist Anne H. Silvis. "We'll start from the beginning, with a long-term vision, then build an action plan to start making that vision happen. This road map uses an innovative planning framework that energizes communities and organizations to focus on assets and opportunities rather than issues and threats. People who have survived traditional planning processes will find this a refreshing turn on a common need--namely envisioning where you want to go and then, without delay, moving in that direction."