University of Illinois

University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign

Former names	Illinois Industrial University (1867–1885) University of Illinois (1885–1982)
Motto	Learning and Labor
Type	Public flagship Land-grant Sea-grant Space-grant
Established	1867
Endowment	$3.3 billion
Chancellor	Robert R. Jones
Provost	Edward Feser (interim)
Academic staff	2,548
Administrative staff	7,801
Students	44,087
Undergraduates	32,878
Postgraduates	11,209
Location	Urbana and Champaign, Illinois, U.S.
Campus	Urban 4,552 acres (1,842 ha)
Colors	Illinois blue      Illinois orange
Athletics	NCAA Division I FBS – Big Ten
Nickname	Fighting Illini
Mascot	None (2007–present) Chief Illiniwek (1926–2007)
Affiliations	University of Illinois system AAU BTAA APLU URA
Website	www.illinois.edu

The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign, also known as U of I, University of Illinois, UIUC (deprecated), or simply Illinois, is a public research-intensive university in the U.S. state of Illinois. Founded in 1867 as a Land-grant institution in the twin cities of Champaign and Urbana (together known as Champaign-Urbana), it is the flagship campus of the University of Illinois system and a founding member of the Big Ten Conference.

The University of Illinois is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified as a RU/VH Research University under the Carnegie Classification system which denotes very high research activities. In fiscal year 2015, total research expedentures at Illinois totaled $640 million. The campus library system possesses the second-largest university library in the United States after Harvard University.

The university comprises 17 colleges that offer more than 150 programs of study. Additionally, the university operates an extension that offers educational programs to more than 1.5 million registrants per year around the state of Illinois and beyond. The university holds 647 buildings on 4,552 acres (1,842 ha) and its annual operating budget in 2016 was over $2 billion. Even though Illinois is a public state university, only about 12% of the budget comes from state taxpayers; the balance is provided mostly by roughly equal parts student tuition and research grants.

University rankings compiled by U.S. News & World Report, Times Higher Education and the Academic Ranking of World Universities rank Illinois among the top 50 universities in the world, and one of the top 5 engineering schools in the world.