University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

WORLD RANK

2012-13
33

Urbana, United States

Region: North America

  • Overall score
    75.8
  • Teaching
    74.2
  • International outlook
    36.0
  • Industry income
    No Data Supplied
  • Research
    84.9
  • Citations
    80.8

Spawned amid controversy with its first president pushing for a liberal-arts "school of thought" but opposed by others favouring an industrial college, today's twin-city (Urbana and Champaign) academy teaches around 43,000 students enrolled in about 150 courses of study at 17 colleges.