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University of Illinois Chicago

University of Illinois at Chicago
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Motto Teach, research, serve, care.
Type Public, Research
Established 1965 (1965) (predecessor schools earlier)
Endowment $2.278 billion
Chancellor Michael Amiridis
President Timothy L. Killeen
Provost Susan Poser
Academic staff
2,637
Students 29,048
Undergraduates 17,575
Postgraduates 11,473
Location Chicago, Illinois, United States
Campus Urban, 244 acres (98.7 ha)
Rail transit UIC-Halsted, Polk, Illinois Medical District
Colors Indigo blue and Flame red
         
Athletics NCAA Division IHorizon League
Nickname Flames
Mascot Sparky D. Dragon
Affiliations Universities Research Association, Great Cities' Universities
Website www.uic.edu
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University rankings
National
Forbes 340
U.S. News & World Report 152
Washington Monthly 65
Global
ARWU 201–300
QS 187
Times 200
U.S. News & World Report 174

The University of Illinois at Chicago or UIC is a state-funded public research-intensive university located in Chicago, Illinois, United States. Its campus is in the Near West Side community area, adjacent to the Chicago Loop. The second campus established under the University of Illinois system, UIC is also the largest university in the Chicago area, having approximately 29,000 students enrolled in 15 colleges.

UIC operates the largest medical school in the United States, and serves as the principal educator for Illinois’ physicians, dentists, pharmacists, physical therapists, nurses and other healthcare professionals. UIC's medical school has research expenditures exceeding $412 million and consistently ranks in the top 50 U.S. institutions for research expenditures.

In the 2015 U.S. News & World Report's ranking of colleges and universities, UIC ranked as the 129th best in the "national universities" category. The 2015 Times Higher Education World University Rankings ranked UIC as the 18th best in the world among universities less than 50 years old.

UIC competes in NCAA Division I Horizon League as the UIC Flames in sports. The UIC Pavilion is home to all UIC basketball games. It also serves as a venue for concerts.

The University of Illinois at Chicago traces its origins to several private health colleges founded during the late nineteenth century, including the Chicago College of Pharmacy, which opened in 1859, the College of Physicians and Surgeons (1882), and the Columbian College of Dentistry (1891).

The University of Illinois was chartered in 1867 in Champaign-Urbana, as the state's land-grant university. In exchange for agreeing to the Champaign-Urbana location, Chicago-area legislators were promised that a "polytechnical" branch would open in Chicago. The Chicago-based health colleges affiliated with the University in 1896–97, becoming fully incorporated into the University of Illinois in 1913, as the Colleges of Medicine, Dentistry, and Pharmacy. Medical education and research expanded in the succeeding decades, leading to the development of several other health science colleges, which were brought together as the Chicago Professional Colleges. In 1935, the first act of newly elected state representative Richard J. Daley was to introduce a resolution calling for the establishment of an undergraduate Chicago campus of the University of Illinois.


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