Mumford Hall on the South Quad houses the Office of the Dean of ACES
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Type | Land-Grant, Public, State |
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Established | 1867 |
Parent institution
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University of Illinois |
Dean | Robert J. Hauser |
Academic staff
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260 |
Administrative staff
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1,378 |
Students | 3,470 |
Undergraduates | 2,732 |
Postgraduates | 738 |
Location |
Urbana, Illinois, U.S. 40°06′13″N 88°13′34″W / 40.103647°N 88.226015°WCoordinates: 40°06′13″N 88°13′34″W / 40.103647°N 88.226015°W |
Nickname | College of ACES |
Website | aces |
The University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign's College of Agriculture, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences (ACES) is part of the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and is considered by some to be the top school of agriculture-related sciences in the world. Most of the ACES buildings are located on the South Quad.
The undergraduate Agricultural Engineering program at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is ranked 1st and the undergraduate engineering program is ranked 5th in the 2008 America's Best Colleges edition of U.S. News & World Report (published in August 2007). The graduate engineering program at Illinois is ranked 5th in the Best Graduate Schools issue of U.S. News & World Report (published in March 2007). (College of Engineering) (ACES News)