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The University of Illinois

University of Illinois
at Urbana-Champaign
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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 FBSBig Ten
Nickname Fighting Illini
Mascot None (2007–present)
Chief Illiniwek (1926–2007)
Affiliations
Website www.illinois.edu
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University rankings
National
ARWU 23
Forbes 72
U.S. News & World Report 44
Washington Monthly 33
Global
ARWU 30
QS 66
Times 36
U.S. News & World Report 47

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 R1 Doctoral Research University under the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education, which denotes the highest research activity. 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 also hosts the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) and is home to the fastest supercomputer on a university campus.

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 university, only about 12% of the budget comes from the state; the balance is provided mostly by roughly equal parts student tuition and research grants.


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