University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

The Hallene Gatway at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Currently celebrating the 150th anniversary of its founding 1867, as one of the original 37 land-grant institutions established after President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act in 1862, the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign is today recognized as a pre-eminent, comprehensive public research university with global impact. Nearly 2,000 faculty, based in 15 colleges and instructional units, conduct cutting edge research and provide world-class education to more than 44,000 students–including more than 11,000 international students from 119 countries, in an intellectually and culturally rich environment supported by one of the largest public research libraries in the world, leading interdisciplinary research centers, a nationally recognized performing arts complex, a museum of world cultures with more than 50,000 artifacts from six continents, and the second largest fine art museum in the state of Illinois, with more than 10,000 works of art dating from the fourth millennium BCE to the present.