<p>I've been wondering this since I filled out the app but have just now gotten around to asking it. Why does Illinois consider their Chemical ENGINEERING program to be in the college of liberal arts and sciences? I know their Chem E has a good reputation but it just seems peculiar to me that what is in the college of engineering everywhere--at least that I know of--else is in LAS at UIUC.</p>
<p>It is just one of those weird things. I think mainly because they share a lot of facilities, classes, and faculty with the chemistry department, so for administrative purposes it helps to have them in the same department. You would have to ask a ChemE to confirm that though, I am mechanical…</p>
<p>Because about 100 years ago when Chem E was added, the Chemistry dept had the only available facilities for it. It has remained there since. However, for essentially all purposes of importance it is part of engineering college – for meetings and organization, it is considered an engineering department whose head meets with other engineering department heads, it follows the admission standards of the engineering dept (in fact, ChemE’s middle 50% range is usually a tad higher than engineering college as a whole), follows course requirements of the engineering department, and for changing engineering majors into or out of ChemE is evaluated and based upon inter-departmental criteria and grade levels needed (rather than inter-college).</p>
<p>Another factoid: a major in physics gets a degree awarded by the LAS college but the physics department is actually in and controlled by the engineering college, which also allows physics majors to change to engineering or vice versa based on engineering inter-departmental criteria rather than inter-college criteria (transferring into an engineering major is more difficult if coming from another college at the university rather than another department in the engineering college.)</p>
<p>Thank you for your informative post drusba!</p>
<p>B.S. in Computer Science is awarded by College of Engineering where as B.S. in Statistics & Computer Science / B.S. in Mathematics & Computer Science are awarded by College of LAS.</p>
<p>All these three majors are under Department of Computer Science which is a part of College of Engineering:</p>
<p>[Undergraduate</a> Academics | Department of Computer Science at Illinois](<a href=“http://cs.illinois.edu/undergraduates/academics]Undergraduate”>http://cs.illinois.edu/undergraduates/academics)</p>
<p>If somesone is accepted in LAS for Statsitics & Computer Science, can he change to College of Engineering - B.S. in Computer Sceince? Will this be considered as intra-department change or intra-college change?</p>
<p>BTW, there are not much changes in all three majors. CS credits are the almost the same in all three majors. Apart from CS papers, B.S. in CS (College of Engg) focusses in Phy/Chem while other two CS majors (College of LAS) focus on Math/Stats.</p>