University of Illinois system
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| Type | Public university system |
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| Established | 1867 |
| Endowment | $5.6 billion (2015) |
| President | Timothy L. Killeen |
| Students | 78,566 |
| Location | Urbana-Champaign Chicago Springfield |
| Campus | 3 universities 36 colleges |
| Website | www |
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The University of Illinois is a system of public universities in Illinois consisting of three universities: Urbana–Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield. Across its three universities, the University of Illinois System enrolls more than 80,000 students. It had an operating budget of $5.6 billion in 2015.
The University of Illinois System of universities comprises three universities in the U.S. state of Illinois: Urbana–Champaign, Chicago, and Springfield. The university in Urbana–Champaign is known as "Illinois", "U of I", or “UIUC”, whereas the Chicago campus is known as “UIC” and the Springfield campus as "UIS."
The system is governed by a Board of Trustees consisting of thirteen members: the governor of Illinois serves as an ex officio member, nine trustees are appointed by the Illinois Governor, and a student trustee elected by referendum represents each of the system's three universities. One of the three student trustees is designated by the governor to have a vote.
The Urbana–Champaign campus was founded in 1867 as the Illinois Industrial University. It was one of the 37 public land-grant institutions created shortly after Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862. The university changed its name to University of Illinois in 1885, and then again to University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign in 1982. The University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign is the largest and most prestigious of the three campuses. UIUC, or more commonly U of I, is the flagship state university campus. It is home to 16 colleges and instructional units including the College of Agricultural, Consumer, and Environmental Sciences; College of Applied Health Sciences; College of Business; College of Education; College of Engineering; College of Fine and Applied Arts; Graduate College; Institute of Labor and Industrial Relations; College of Law; College of Liberal Arts and Sciences; Graduate School of Library and Information Science; College of Media; Carle-Illinois College of Medicine (coming 2018); School of Social Work; and the College of Veterinary Medicine.
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