Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg was awarded Honorary Degrees by the University of Illinois (1994)

Address: Champaign, IL, United States
Phone: +1 217-333-1000
Former names: Illinois Industrial University (1867–1885), University of Illinois (1885–1982), and University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (1982–2021)
Motto: "Learning & Labor"
Type: Public land-grant research university
Established: 1867; 158 years ago
Parent institution: University of Illinois System
Endowment: $3.38 billion (2023)
Budget: $7.7 billion (2023) (system-wide)
Academic staff: 2,548
Administrative staff: 8,803
Students: 59,238 (2024)
Undergraduates: 37,140 (2024)
Postgraduates: 20,765 (2024)
Newspaper: The Daily Illini
Colors: Orange and blue
Nickname: Fighting Illini
Sporting affiliations: NCAA Division I FBS – Big Ten
Website: https://www.illinois.edu/

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The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (UIUC, U of I, Illinois, or University of Illinois) is a public land-grant research university in the Champaign–Urbana metropolitan area, Illinois, United States. Established in 1867, it is the flagship institution of the University of Illinois System. With over 59,000 students, the University of Illinois is one of the largest public universities by enrollment in the United States.

The university contains 16 schools and colleges and offers more than 150 undergraduate and over 100 graduate programs of study. The university holds 651 buildings on 6,370 acres (2,578 ha) and its annual operating budget in 2016 was over $2 billion. The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign also operates a research park home to innovation centers for over 90 start-up companies and multinational corporations.

The University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign is a member of the Association of American Universities and is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". In fiscal year 2019, research expenditures at Illinois totaled $652 million. The campus library system possesses the fourth-largest university library in the United States by holdings. The university also hosts the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.

Illinois athletic teams compete in Division I of the NCAA and are collectively known as the Fighting Illini. They are members of the Big Ten Conference and have won the second-most conference titles. Illinois Fighting Illini football won the Rose Bowl Game in 1947, 1952, 1964 and a total of five national championships. Illinois athletes have won 29 medals in Olympic events. The alumni, faculty members, or researchers of the university include 24 Nobel laureates, 27 Pulitzer Prize winners, 2 Fields medalists, and 2 Turing Award winners.

 

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