University of Illinois School of Architecture

University of Illinois School of Architecture

Architecture Building, 2007
Type	Public Professional School Degrees: BS, M.Arch, and Ph.D
Established	1867
Endowment	$6.674 million
Director	Peter Leslie Mortensen
Chairs	Paul Armstrong, (Design) Mir Ali (Structures) Paul Kapp (interim) (History & Preservation) Michael McCulley (Practice & Technology)
Academic staff	59
Students	757
Undergraduates	525
Postgraduates	232
Location	Champaign, Illinois, United States
Admissions	M.Arch (24.95%)
Website	www.arch.uiuc.edu

The University of Illinois School of Architecture is an academic unit within the College of Fine & Applied Arts at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

The school is also affiliated with the Building Research Council (BRC), located in Champaign, Illinois. The four teaching divisions in the School instill fundamental professional knowledge through courses in architectural history, building construction, structures, environmental technology and architectural design.

Founded in 1870 at the Illinois Industrial University (now the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign), the School of Architecture was established under the Polytechnic Department under the proposal by Regent John Milton Gregory. Founded a few years after the Architecture Departments at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Cornell University, and after Architecture classes began at the University of Pennsylvania, it is the fourth oldest architecture school in the United States.Nathan Clifford Ricker was the first student in the school and later became the first graduate with an architecture degree granted by an American institution.

Together with the Architecture Program at Cornell University, the school is also known to be one of the first to award an architecture degree to a female in the United States. Mary L. Page, graduated in 1878, was the first woman to earn that honour.