University of Illinois Chicago
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| Motto | Teach, research, serve, care. |
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| Type | Public, Research |
| Established | 1965 (predecessor schools earlier) |
| Endowment | $2.278 billion |
| Chancellor | Michael Amiridis |
| President | Timothy L. Killeen |
| Provost | Susan Poser |
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Academic staff
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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 I – Horizon League |
| Nickname | Flames |
| Mascot | Sparky D. Dragon |
| Affiliations | Universities Research Association, Great Cities' Universities |
| Website | www |
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| University rankings | |
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| 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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