<p>All you guys are talking about UI's engineering program, but their biolgoical science and biomedical is top notch!</p>
<p>How good are they? Could you elaborate a bit more?</p>
<p>UIUC is not as good in life sciences as engineering and physical sciences. I think this is because the medical school of the University of Illinois system is located in the Chicago campus.</p>
<p>That's what I thought. However, they are definitely highly regarded in physical science, and many other areas. Engineering just happens to be more well known.</p>
<p>How about chemistry? Is UIUC renowned for chemistry?</p>
<p>I think for engineering it is considered one of the best in the country. Same for accounting. It is well respected in Illinois/Chicago, but it has a problem with national respect. It can start by enrolling more out of state students. Michigan/Wisconsin have 30-40% out of state. Illinois is barely 10%. It also does not help that Urbana/Champ. is not the best college town.</p>
<p>It's definately among the best in engineering, comp. sci, etc. Their accounting program was ranked #1 the last time I checked. </p>
<p>But I'd have to agree with Transfer, Chambana (as we natives have dubbed it) isn't exactly full of things to do. But that's just me :-)</p>
<p>Prestige can be debated but certainly baccalaureates in engineering (EE #4, CS top 5, Civil #1, etc), Accountancy (#1/2), Finance (top-10), the hard sciences (Chem, Physics, Biochem) are some of the top in the world.</p>
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A couple years ago, the university proposed to increase its OOS enrollment from 10% to 15%. The reactions among the locals were so negative the university eventually pulled the plug on the plan.</p>
<p>The Engineering school is in the top 5 in the nation, with Civil and Environmental Engineering at number 1. Accounting is also really good, as well as the Business school in general. </p>
<p>And although the University as a whole isn’t as selective as some schools, the Engineering school is fairly tough to get into (mean ACT is 30-33).</p>
<p>“Prestigious” isn’t the right word, but “excellent” is.
U of I (no one calls it UIUC except on College Confidential) is an excellent state flagship school. The wealthier suburbs of Chicago are chock full of people who have been incredibly successful with a U of I education. It is far harder to get into than it used to be for in-state people. It has a very good reputation throughout most of the midwest and no one with a U of I education won’t have the resources to do as well as they want to in life.</p>
<p>The current OOS population is around 18% at Illinois according to Chicago Tribune.</p>
<p>The current OOS population is 7% according to the Princeton Review.</p>
<p>At my high school about an hour from U of I, the school is often criticized by my teachers as being way over-hyped and filled with out-of-control drinking. This is probably because about 90% of the teachers at my school went to Illinois State University. Some praise the school, however.</p>
<p>Personally, the school lost any prestige when I found it ranked among the top 20 colleges in the nation for students who study the least and for being a top party school.</p>
<p>State Farm, the major employer in Bloomington, Illinois, does give significant preference to U of I graduates over ISU graduates.</p>
<p>I remember way back when I attended a private high school in the Chicago area, a U of I admissions rep visited our school. A lot of students really had no interest in attending U of I, but just went out of curiosity. Someone asked the recruiter how the spirit was holding up on campus since they had a tough football opponent coming up that Saturday. The recruiter admitted he didnt really know because he was based at the Chicago campus. Well, when he said that, all the seniors basically made fun of U of I for the rest of the session. I knew some people who went to lesser colleges rather than go to U of I. A lot of others, who had no intention of ending up there, went anyway due to finances, or not getting admitted to their preferred private uni.</p>
<p>In more recent years, Illinois developed a reputation as being difficult to get admitted, in part, because there are simply not enough places for all the qualified students just from within the state (unless, of course you want to try pay for play in the great tradition of Illinois politics, as weve recently learned). [Clout</a> goes to college - Chicago Tribune](<a href=“Chicago Tribune - Chicago News, Sports, Weather, Business & Things to Do”>Chicago Tribune - Chicago News, Sports, Weather, Business & Things to Do)</p>
<p>It really takes a long time for the prestige of a university to change. I think most people would consider it excellent, particularly in engineering and accounting, but it still lacks social prestige, especially in the Chicago area. (On the other hand, when I lived in Indiana, I found that Indiana U had a certain social prestige within the state, even though its not ranked as highly and isnt very well known out of the region.)</p>
<p>U of Is honors program, the James Scholars, is known within the state, but not known out-of-state to the same extent as the named honors programs at some other flagship state unis. Also, the business programs are in the College of Business----they might have more recognition and prestige outside the state if they sold the naming rights like Indianas Kelly School of Business or Ross School of Business at Michigan.</p>
<p>A previous poster had a good point that no one in Illinois refers to it as UIUC; its always U of I or Illinois.</p>
<p>“Personally, the school lost any prestige when I found it ranked among the top 20 colleges in the nation for students who study the least and for being a top party school.”</p>
<p>I think anyone taking these sorts of rankings seriously is totally lacking in judgment skills. Look at the source and the methodology. It’s a joke.</p>
<p>As to OOS population, based on actual figures: at the undergrad level about 8% are OOS and another 8% are international. Overall for the university about 12% are OOS and 14% international – the grad schools have more OOS and internationals than they do Illinois residents.</p>
<p>For those discussing the business school, be aware that it has the lowest admisson rate of all the colleges at UIUC -the last couple of years it has been about 37%.</p>
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<p>UIUC made IE? </p>
<p>Congratulations, razing UIUC to the ground has just become my top task.</p>
<p>UIUC made the first significant browser MOSAIC which evolved to Netscape which was later killed off illegally by Microsoft and IE which was basically another version of MOSAIC they bought from UIUC offshoot Spyglass.</p>
<p><a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen[/url]”>http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marc_Andreessen</a></p>
<p>UIUC’s NCSA is also the birthplace of the Apache HTTP server, which serves 46% of all websites on WWW.</p>