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[4] 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 at the graduate level, 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. According to the 2010 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, Civil Engineering, Agricultural Engineering, 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.
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