The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, also known as UIUC and the UofI (the officially preferred abbreviation), is the largest campus in the University of Illinois system. It is highly ranked in engineering, computer science, physical sciences, psychology, and accounting. The campus is divided almost exactly between the cities of Urbana and Champaign. The university is composed of 18 colleges and institutes that offer more than 150 programs of study. There are approximately 28,000 undergraduates and 10,000 graduate students at Urbana-Champaign.
UIUC is the site of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications, which created the first graphical Web browser, Mosaic. The University also has the third largest academic library, and the largest public engineering library (Grainger Engineering Library) in the country. The Daily Illini is the (unofficial) student newspaper.
11 alumni and nine professors from U of I have won the Nobel Prize, including two in 2003; professors Paul Lauterbur and Anthony Leggett won for their work in physiology/medicine and physics, respectively.
UIUC's sports teams, nicknamed the Fighting Illini (pronounced eye-LIE-nigh), compete in Division I (I-A for football) as a member of the Big Ten Conference. |
