College of Engineering University of Illinois at UrbanaChampaign www'engr'uiuc'edu

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College of EngineeringUniversity of Illinois at
Urbana-Champaignwww.engr.uiuc.edu
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University of Illinois

• Undergraduates 30,453 Graduate Students
  9188
• Students from all 50 states and 100 nations
• 2947 tenured faculty members
• 11 Nobel Prize Winners, 19 Nobel laureates, 16
  Pulitzer Prize Winners
• Largest public university library nationwide
• Largest public engineering library
• Renowned center for the performing arts, Krannert
  Center with four theaters
• Home of Mosaic, LED, air-conditioning,
  transistor, integrated-circuit, MRI, and the
  plasma screen
• Total budget 1.271 billion

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Selected Rankings

• Kiplingers Personal Finance ranked Illinois
  eighth in its 100 Best Values in Public
  Colleges for 2006.
• American Society for Engineering Education (ASEE)
  ranked the Engineering at Illinois second in the
  nation for research expenditures. Expenditures
  from federal, state, institution, and private
  gifts, grants and contracts were nearly 290.1
  million in 2005.
• In 2005, the ASEE reported that the College of
  Engineering ranked 5th in the number of Ph.D.s
  awarded nationally 9th in M.S. degrees and 5th
  in B.S. degrees and 4th in the number of degrees
  overall.
• The Kaplan / Newsweek College Catalog recognized
  the University of Illinois as a top school in
  three areas best value for the tuition dollar,
  support for diversity, and academic challenges
  (2002).

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Graduate Program Facts

• 11,029 graduate and professional students
• 60 disciplines are ranked in the top 30
  nationwide
• Among the top five U.S. universities in number of
  earned doctorates awarded annually
• 70 percent of graduate students received
  fellowships, assistantships, or tuition aid in
  2005
• Fellowships of 3K or more per semester provide a
  full waiver of tuition, service fee, and health
  service fee
• Tuition for 2006-2007 Term
• Residents 11,032
• Non-Resident 23,698

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Graduate Student Admission and Financial Aid

• Applications available at www.grad.uiuc.edu
• Financial aid for graduate students at the
  University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is
  available in the form of
• Teaching, research, graduate, and
  pre-professional graduate assistantships
• Fellowships (including traineeships)
• Grants
• Loans
• Additional information available at
  www.finaid.org

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Depth and Breadth across Engineering Areas

• One of the top 4 undergraduate colleges of
  engineering
• 5,400 undergraduates, 2,500 graduate students
• 400 plus faculty
• 2nd largest annual research expenditures in the
  U.S. 290.1M degree programs in 13 academic
  departments
• Over 25 major research centers and
  interdisciplinary programs
• Close affiliations with Beckman Institute for
  Advanced Science and Technology and National
  Center for Supercomputing Applications

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Rankings
UIUCs CoE is ranked 5th in the nation for
Graduate Programs
1 5 20 2 5 10

• Aerospace
• Chemical
• Civil
• Computer Engr.
• Computer Science
• Electrical
• Physics

• Physics-Condensed Matter/Low Temp.
• Environmental
• Industrial
• Materials
• Mechanical
• Nuclear

7 12 1 5 5 4 8
2006 data U.S. News World Report
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Excellence on a Large Scale

• One of the largest colleges across the nation

• MIT PhD number includes ScD and professional
  engineering degrees
• Stanford PhD number includes Doctor of
  Engineering degrees

2005 data AAES
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Engineering Enrollment
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Pre-eminence for the 21st Century

• Objectives
• Excellence in education
• Excellence and impact of our innovative research
• Recognition and promotion of faculty, staff,
  students, and alumni
• Comprehensive contributions and service to
  society
• Anticipated major College-wide initiatives
• Engineering in biomedicine
• Energy in a sustainable environment
• Outreach to partners, nationally and globally,
  for collaboration and richness of ideas

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Faculty Honors

• 82 of faculty hold named chairs or professorships
• 34 are members of National Academy of Engineering
• 15 are members of the National Academy of
  Sciences
• 15 are members of the American Academy of Arts
  Sciences
• 2 Nobel Laureates
• 1 is a National Medal of Science recipient
• 1 is a National Medal of Technology recipient

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Where is Champaign?
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Aspects of Champaign-Urbana

• Located close to major international airports (in
  addition to local airport)
• 2.5 hours from Chicago OHare, Illinois
• 2 hours from Indianapolis, Indiana
• 3.25 hours from St. Louis, Missouri
• Graduate student housing
• Excellent and comprehensive bus service
• Large international community
• Relativity low cost of living
• Friendly environment and people!

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Engineering Campus
All following photographs courtesy of Kalev
Leetaru
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Siebel
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Grainger Engineering Library
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Campus
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Engineering Advocates Sponsors

• Agilent Technologies Inc.
• Cargill
• Caterpillar
• Lockheed-Martin

If you have further questions feel free to email
us at advocates_at_uiuc.edu Or visit
www.engr.uiuc.edu/outreach